Agentic Software Engineer

What you will do

• Spend the majority of your time (roughly 70%) designing, building, and iterating on agentic tooling: orchestration, tool-use, context management, and evaluation harnesses for autonomous code-modification agents.

• Build and refine the verification layer that gates what agents are allowed to ship — automated test generation, regression detection, static analysis (using our own SonarQube), and human-in-the-loop checkpoints where warranted.

• Spend the remainder of your time (roughly 30%) hands-on in our Java/Spring codebase: reviewing agent-generated pull requests, fixing what they get wrong, and feeding those lessons back into the tooling.

• Partner closely with the Server, Cloud Platform, and value-stream squads whose domains you're migrating — earning their trust and buy-in matters as much as the code itself.

• Contribute to the Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and standards that govern how the Unified Core evolves.

• Track and evaluate emerging agent frameworks and techniques, bringing back what's genuinely useful — as distinct from what's just hype — for accelerating engineering across Sonar.

Experience and qualifications

• Hands-on experience building or operating multi-agent or LLM-agent systems in a real production setting — not just prompting a coding assistant, but designing the orchestration, tool-use, and guardrails around autonomous agents.

• Experience building evaluation or verification systems for AI-generated changes: automated testing, static analysis, regression detection, or comparable safety nets for code you didn't personally write.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Java and Spring (or a comparable JVM/enterprise stack) — enough to read a large, mature codebase critically and tell good architecture from bad.

• A track record of owning complex, ambiguous technical problems independently and driving them to resolution — this is an R&D-flavored role inside a production platform team, and you'll be shaping the playbook, not following one.

• Experience influencing engineers and squads you don't manage — the migrations you'll enable depend on their trust as much as on your code.

Additional comments

This role is based in Bochum, Germany. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Bochum, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.

Benefits

Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by Sonar, 3% of gross salary, an additional benefit in addition to your salary.
Pension Scheme:2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings.
We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
Sonar recognizes holidays on working calendar days. If the holiday date occurs on a Saturday, we will recognize the day on the preceding Friday. If the holiday date occurs on a Sunday, we will recognize the day on the following Monday.
Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.  
Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
 
 
 
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We value diversity, equity, and inclusion

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. 

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date. 

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.