Backend Engineer (后端工程师), IoT Architecture & Migration
Fellow · Shenzhen / Guangzhou
Posted 12 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 12 days Fellow's roles stay open a median of 24 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 67% of Fellow's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Fellow
- moderate 5 stale, 0 reposted of 15 open
- Hiring momentum
- 18 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
The Backend Engineer will design, develop, and maintain backend services for Fellow's IoT platform. This role involves simplifying backend architecture, establishing new product pilots, ensuring real-time connectivity, and improving operational visibility. The engineer will work closely with various teams to optimize backend systems and facilitate staged migrations for existing products.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Fellow as an employer.
What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience using TypeScript/Node.js and Python
- Strong experience in NestJS, Express, or comparable frameworks
- Experience designing and operating connected-device or IoT backend systems in production
- Strong experience with real-time and event-driven communication, including WebSockets, REST, queues, and state synchronization
- Hands-on AWS experience with services such as ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, S3, RDS/PostgreSQL, and AWS IoT Core
Nice to have
- Experience establishing a new product as the pilot for a reusable multi-device platform architecture
- Experience with factory provisioning, certificate injection, device identity, manufacturing validation, or supplier-facing engineering workflows
- Experience building telemetry, data collection, orchestration, or feature pipelines that support ML development and continuous product improvement
- Familiarity with on-device software, embedded systems, firmware workflows, hardware debugging, or device log collection
- Experience operating global or China-region cloud infrastructure and supporting services across geographic boundaries
What you get
- Competitive compensation including employee equity plan
- Generous paid time off plan
- 401k with company contribution after 6 months of employment
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Better Yourself Wellness credit & Better Your Community donation matching
- Monthly Fitness Stipend
Worth weighing
- Requires regular in-office presence in Shenzhen, China
- Salary range may vary based on factors like experience and internal equity
- The role involves hands-on technical work as well as architectural direction
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Listed by Fellow on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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