Kongsberg Digital builds industrial software for energy, maritime, and other asset-intensive industries. KogniTwin is our digital twin platform that helps customers contextualize data, run simulations, and improve operations across complex assets.
Its platform is powered by scalable backend services that ingest, model, and serve industrial data at scale.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help design, scale, and continuously improve the KogniTwin platform. In this role, you will take technical ownership of distributed backend systems, APIs, and data-intensive services, and play a key part in defining backend standards and engineering best practices across teams.
What You’ll Do
- Build scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Own backend features from design to release and observability.
- Drive architecture, reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Work closely with Product, Frontend, Data/Platform, and DevOps teams.
- Mentor peers and improve backend engineering practices.
What You’ll Bring (Must-Have)
- 6+ years of experience building backend systems with Node.js and TypeScript/JavaScript. (MEAN Stack)
- Strong hands-on experience with backend frameworks and API development.
- Strong experience in OOP, system design, and service-oriented architecture.
- Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, databases, caching, messaging, and cloud-native architecture.
- Hands-on experience with testing, debugging, observability, and CI/CD for backend services.
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
Nice to Have
- Experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, or distributed systems.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, or AWS.
- Experience with security, auth, and resilient production-grade services.
- Experience with data platforms, analytics systems, or GenAI/LLM backend capabilities.
What We Offer
This is an opportunity to take real ownership of scalable backend systems, influence engineering standards across teams, and grow your impact in a product-led, technically ambitious environment.
We are an international corporation with strong Norwegian roots. Collaboration with our customers, partners and suppliers, and a commitment to understand the context where our technology is applied, are important driving forces behind the corporation’s international development and growth.
We share knowledge and drive improvements throughout our business, and seek to add value to every customer and in every sector where we operate. All our activities are characterised by integrity and concern for health, safety and the environment.
Our systems, services and products are in the international top league. We have obtained this position from more than 200 years of innovation, hard work and determination. Our solutions increase performance and optimise results in areas that are strategically important worldwide – maritime industry, defence and security, exploration of natural resources, such as oil, natural gas, fish stocks, as well as the exploration of space.
We protect people and planet by innovating technology today, for a better tomorrow.
