FORT brings together the best technologists who have spent their careers working to solve the most complex and dangerous aspects of robotics.
The company was founded in 2018 by Samuel Reeves, who spent the previous decade making landmine clearance safer through robotics. During this time, Reeves realized that secure communications – considered core infrastructure elsewhere in technology – didn’t exist for robots in fields like construction, agriculture, warehousing, or elsewhere. FORT was founded to create a first-of-its-kind Robotics Control Platform (RCP) to empower companies with unique tools to ensure robots cause no harm.FORT is seeking a Technical Lead for the Cloud Platform for its cloud portfolio of products.
The FORT cloud platform orchestrates the overall FORT portfolio of security and functional safety products for the emerging intelligent, autonomous vehicle, and robot market. This role will work with a global team of engineers in an agile environment that includes other roles such as QA, technical product owner, and devops.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Technical lead for a team building FORT’s cloud platform
- System architecture - collaborating with senior team members.
- Hands-on product development programming with .NET
- Designed and developed software components conforming to business requirements and functional and design specifications, meeting established target schedules.
- Technology evaluation - staying abreast of the latest technological developments, prototyping new methods to improve product quality and performance, and extending or augmenting current products. Constantly monitor the industry for new tools/libraries to aid application development.
- Technical review and evaluation of current development activities (code and implementations)
- Backlog creation in collaboration with technical product owners and team members.
- Provide technical support to internal customers.
- Continue to upgrade technical and personal skills through internal and external training.
Expertise and Knowledge:
- 7+ years of software product development experience, at least four of which have been hands-on working on cloud or SaaS applications/platforms
- Hands-on .NET programming
- Experience with Service Oriented Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Asynchronous API patterns, and queuing technologies
- Hands-on, extensive experience with one or more Cloud vendors/solutions – Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Demonstrable experience with container technologies and container orchestration, preferably Kubernetes, and related CD tooling
- Robust deployment and operations mindset with experience with Git, Terraform, ArgoCD, YAML, and JSON.
“Plus” Qualities
- Experience developing a Platform versus a fixed application.
- Preferable experience with IoT or innovative connected product platforms.
- Data & search experience with NoSQL, graph databases, Elastic Stack, and/or similar tools
- Full stack capability - experience with React
- Experience with IAM systems and HSM implementations, SAML, etc.
- GO & Node JS
Increasingly, today’s worksites require people and machines to collaborate side by side. To ensure control amid increasing automation, FORT’s platform is safe, secure, and dynamic in ways that can’t be achieved by legacy controls or next-gen AI. Autonomous machines hold great promise but present new and serious risks. FORT minimizes those risks by ensuring communications integrity over any network – allowing customers to rest assured that their most valuable assets, people, data, and machines are always safe and secure.
