Senior Backend Engineer

The Mobile Fulfilment Systems department at Ocado is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge automation solutions for both in-store and warehouse online order fulfilment. We leverage distributed backend systems, intuitive mobile applications, and advanced autonomous mobile robots to enable fast, scalable, and cost-effective order collection.

Within this department, the Chuck Norris team is dedicated to building the software systems powering our Mobile Robotics products. Our scope spans mobile apps, backend microservices, workflow orchestration, integration APIs, and cloud-native components. All these drive the success of our flagship Chuck Autonomous Mobile Robot.

This role is central to shaping the architecture, scalability, and reliability of Ocado's cloud-based backend systems for mobile robotics. Your contributions will directly influence the efficiency and intelligence of our autonomous robot fleet in real-world operations.

About the Role

This is a senior engineering role with a strong AI focus. You'll do the full range of engineering work - designing systems, building features, keeping production healthy - with agentic AI at the centre of how you build. Working on OMRS, the platform that runs th