Senior Software Engineer - E3 - Instawork Robotics
Hybrid (Bengaluru)Full-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior Engineer role in Instawork Robotics Labs (IRL) Bengaluru hub, building and scaling data/AI infrastructure for massive-scale physical AI training data. Owns Instawork Lens and Instawork Prism platforms, with full-stack responsibilities across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Full-Stack Versatility: Seamlessly transition between frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Own features end-to-end, solving technical challenges to shipping.
- Platform Ownership: Lead the technical development of Instawork Lens and Instawork Radiant, ensuring high-throughput data enrichment, labeling, and continuous quality assurance loops.
- Infrastructure & Video Pipelines: Architect and scale cloud environments, manage AWS infrastructure and ECS services for video transcoding, with thorough observability across CPU, memory, network, and disk IOPS.
- Architect for Scale: Design and optimize data pipelines to securely process petabytes of global video and telemetry data.
- AI-Leveraged Engineering: Use agentic models to accelerate delivery while guiding AI usage with strong engineering fundamentals.
- Cross-Functional Mentorship: Mentor mid- and senior-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural discussions.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, databases, and networks
- Full-stack experience (Python, Django, React or similar) and willingness to learn required tools/languages
- Hands-on cloud/infrastructure experience (AWS, ECS/Docker, CloudWatch) for data-heavy/high-throughput apps
- Startup mindset with ability to operate in ambiguous 0-1 environments
- Genuine enthusiasm for robotics and AI-driven impact
Skills
Required:Full-stack developmentReactPython/DjangoAWSDistributed systems
Nice to have:Video processing
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Instawork
A flexible work app that connects businesses with hourly workers.
Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for hourly workers and hospitality businesses. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. Workers need a better way to find great local jobs and businesses need a better way to find quality workers fast.
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