Topcon Positioning Group is headquartered in Livermore California USA (). We design manufacture and distribute productivity tools for developing a brighter future. Whether cultivating the earth or building upon it Topcon brings innovation in workflow automation and seamless connectivity of data to construction geopositioning and agriculture industries focused on developing a sustainable tomorrow.
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Topcon Positioning is looking for a qualified individual to fill the role of an
Senior Backend Developer ()
Work location: TOPCON Office located in Bologna ( Italy )
Smart working activity ( home office) for 3 days per week
Job Purpose
Were building advanced digital platforms for automating construction and geospatial workflows and were looking for a Senior Backend Developer () to help us scale and evolve our core systems.
This role is ideal for an experienced backend engineer who thrives in high-load cloud-native environments and enjoys solving real-world technical challenges with AWS and a modern distributed stack.
What Youll Do
- Build and maintain scalable resilient backend services using and TypeScript
- Contribute to the design and implementation of distributed systems handling high traffic and large datasets
- Collaborate with architects DevOps and frontend teams to deliver end-to-end product features
- Optimize cloud infrastructure performance and cost-efficiency in AWS environments
- Write clean testable and maintainable code following modern development best practices
- Participate in technical discussions code reviews and continuous improvement of development workflows
- Work in a DevOps-friendly environment with Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
What Were Looking For
- University degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Electronics or a related field.
- 8 working experience in Software Development field.
- 4 years of backend development experience with and TypeScript
- Experience with cloud-native development particularly using AWS services like ECS/EKS Lambda S3 DynamoDB etc.
- Solid understanding of designing and maintaining high-load scalable systems
- Familiarity with message queues (Kafka RabbitMQ) containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and microservices
- Experience working with NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB DynamoDB) and relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)
- Practical knowledge of RESTful APIs event-driven architecture and performance optimization
- English proficiency for communication in international teams and technical documentation
Nice to Have
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines monitoring tools and infrastructure as code (Terraform Pulumi)
- Interest in edge computing real-time processing or geo-distributed systems
- Domain experience in construction tech geospatial/GIS or related industries
- Familiarity with frontend integration GraphQL or full-stack product understanding
What Youll Get
- Real technical challenges: high availability large data volumes and global user scale
- A flat product-focused engineering culture where your ideas shape architecture and features
- Opportunity to work on tools that directly impact how physical infrastructure gets built in the real world
Working Conditions
We offer a balanced work setup that combines in-person collaboration with flexibility:
- Office presence: at our Bologna office ( full time) 2 days per week
- Remote work options (Smart Working) available three days per week
Wed love to hear from you! Please send us your application and the earliest date you could join our team.
For further information please contact our Corporate Senior Recruiter TOPCON Europe Mr. Simone Masseroni by mailing
Required Experience:
Senior IC