Top Software Engineer Jobs in Germany

Lead development of high-volume, low-latency Maps API services and distributed ETL pipelines. Design scalable systems, make architectural decisions, build and deploy microservices, diagnose complex production behavior, and promote operational excellence through testing, monitoring, documentation, and on-call support. Mentor engineers, facilitate design and code reviews, reduce technical debt, improve performance, and deliver reliable mapping tools for global customers.

Develop and maintain desktop applications (C#/.NET/WPF), automate engineering workflows, design scalable architectures, optimize performance and UX, extend internal libraries, and produce technical and user documentation.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for leading architectural evolution across a distributed rendering platform, contributing to core backend systems, and improving performance, reliability, scalability, testing, and delivery practices. The role includes mentoring engineers through pairing and design reviews, unblocking teams, shaping technical strategy, improving CI/CD and tooling, and aligning engineering investments with product and business goals.

Design and build distributed backend services for the cloud monetization platform, focusing on correctness, consistency, scalable microservices, distributed transactions, and reliable asynchronous workflows. Influence system architecture, own service implementations, and collaborate across teams to support billing, reservations, payments, and revenue flows.

Build and maintain integrations for North's agentic platform, own the end-to-end integration pipeline, create evals and tests to ensure reliability, tune tool descriptions, and help other engineers add and maintain integrations while using AI responsibly to improve performance and quality.

Design, build, ship, and own high-scale, user-facing product features across frontend, backend, and data systems. Define problems, scope and prioritize work, collaborate with Product, monitor production usage, debug incidents, improve reliability, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend expertise alongside React proficiency and ownership from product discovery through long-term maintenance.

Build and ship production AI agents that help mobile app developers manage subscriptions and paywalls. Own agent orchestration, tool execution, context management, evaluation, observability, permissions, and human-in-the-loop controls. Develop reliable, secure, user-facing backend systems, scope projects independently, monitor adoption, improve features after launch, participate in architecture and incident response, and mentor engineers.

Develop and maintain a scalable microservices system for financial transaction processing. Migrate two applications, design and program modules and infrastructure, create automated tests, implement automated deployments, analyze problems within a Scrum team, and provide 3rd-level on-call support.

Develop motion planning, decision-making, vehicle control, and estimation algorithms for autonomous vehicles. Implement mission-critical real-time C++ for embedded automotive systems, build simulation and analysis tools in Python and C++, integrate with perception and platform teams, validate software on vehicles, define safety and performance metrics, analyze field data, and implement safety mitigations.

The Software Engineer will develop backend systems using Rust, manage multimodal data, and improve data infrastructure with a focus on performance and design ownership.

Own and resolve production customer issues end-to-end: debug integrations, browser JS, agents and prompts, and database issues. Communicate directly with customers, build automation and runbooks to prevent recurrence, surface recurring patterns to Product, and raise team capability through tools and documentation.

Canonical seeks open-source enthusiasts to optimize Ubuntu for new silicon technologies, collaborating with teams and customers to enhance software quality and performance across various platforms.

Design and develop services for automating work with a large server fleet while engaging in DevOps processes.

Design and develop services for monitoring servers, improve metrics pipelines, automate maintenance workflows, and investigate incidents to ensure infrastructure reliability.

The role involves improving developer workflows and CI/CD infrastructure for automotive systems, optimizing software deployment, and addressing software stack bottlenecks.

The role involves developing backend services using Python and Django, ensuring high availability and performance, and leveraging computer vision technology for 3D experiences in home decor.

Develop desktop UI components and user experiences for large 3D geospatial models using XAML and MVVM. Collaborate across teams on designs, contribute unit tests, and work with product engineers to evolve the Reality Engine product.

The role involves leading the design and development of core 3D reconstruction components, mentoring team members, and ensuring software quality through best practices in image processing and computer vision.

Design and build robust production systems across distributed execution, storage, secure compute, inference, and scheduling. Solve correctness, performance, reliability, and cost tradeoffs; operate what you build; measure workloads, identify bottlenecks, and deliver measurable improvements in multi-cloud Kubernetes environments.

Design and build complex, business-critical data pipelines and tooling; expand Deep Learning and LLM extraction for clinical insights; collaborate with clinicians, product, and scientists; shape team roadmaps and grow European engineering; iterate rapidly while maintaining quality, security, and compliance with healthcare data requirements.

Integrate, release-test, and deploy Adaptive MICROSAR into customer projects. Consult and support customers on architecture, implementation, and integration. Collaborate with Vector development teams and mixed project teams, deliver trainings and workshops worldwide, and stay current with emerging technologies to provide optimal customer solutions.

Build and ship native Android features for an AI-powered neobank using Kotlin. Design clean user flows for financial products, integrate backend APIs, improve performance and reliability, use analytics to iterate, and implement on-device AI where it improves UX.

Design scalable full-stack software architectures across frontend, backend, and database layers. Develop user interfaces, server-side logic, APIs, and databases; define components, interfaces, technologies, and design patterns. Guide development teams, establish coding standards, review code, document requirements, communicate architectural decisions, and track technical risks. Collaborate with product owners, stakeholders, requirements engineers, and verification, validation, and testing teams to deliver secure, testable systems for defense and international customers.

Develop and maintain embedded firmware for microcontroller subsystem boards and custom flight controllers. Integrate sensors, peripherals, avionics buses, and telemetry across autonomous aircraft. Contribute to RTOS and Linux mission-computer software, CI pipelines, hardware-in-the-loop testing, automated on-target tests, and flight-log tooling. Support board bring-up, laboratory debugging, integration, flight testing, documentation, and test-protocol development alongside hardware engineers.

Own the embedded Linux platform for a heterogeneous Arm-based mission computer. Responsibilities include Yocto BSP development, kernel and device-tree configuration, board-specific drivers, camera and video pipelines, inter-processor communication, secure boot, signed updates, system hardening, CI, hardware-in-the-loop testing, board bring-up, flight-test support, and mentoring engineers. The role collaborates closely with hardware, software, and SoC vendor teams to deliver reliable autonomous defense capabilities.