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MONUMENTAL | https://www.monumental.co/ | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Full Time | Onsite We make robots that autonomously construct buildings. We are currently developing and manufacturing our autonomous bricklaying system in the beautiful centre of Amsterdam. And our robots are already earning real revenue operating on construction sites all over the Netherlands.

We're looking for experienced software engineers for many roles. You can help us solve problems like:

- Data sync and analytics queries across a fleet of robots (that can be offline for hours at a time)

- Modelling buildings in code and finding the right UI for operators to edit them

- Designing systems for robots to drive safely and fully autonomously around a building site

Check out the progress we've already made on Atrium, our operating system for robotics: https://www.monumental.co/atrium

We're rapidly scaling up operations and we need experienced engineers who can build the systems that manage all of that complexity. If you think that 'full-stack' could reasonably mean debugging firmware, mixing buckets of mortar _and_ writing React components, we are looking for you. Robotics experience not required!

https://www.monumental.co/jobs

I can see that. Pydantic is great but relatively slow (which matters on edge devices) and can be bloated.

The fact that all your projects use Pydantic makes it an easy starting point and created standardisation - of course.

Nevertheless, I can definitely see some use-cases for lightweight JSON-serialisation without bringing in Pydantic. Dataclasses are great, but lack proper json handling.

Impressive speed performance! And love the magic, like wiring services and repos.

Not super sure about the magical SQL queries OOTB, but that might be a preference thing.

Lots of docs too, great job!

(This also triggered a question in me: should Astral also support/write a web framework?)