Top Software Engineer Jobs in Germany

Design and develop scalable production applications while applying an AI-first engineering approach. Build AI-powered internal tools and workflows, integrate LLM APIs, and use GenAI tools to improve coding, testing, documentation, reviews, and operations. Coach engineering teams on effective GenAI adoption, establish safe usage practices, run data-informed experiments, and turn successful approaches into repeatable standards. The role also contributes to technical direction, software quality, performance, observability, and long-term platform stability.

Build and scale production-ready web platforms, systems, and MVPs for fast-growing businesses. Deliver performant frontend and backend features, advise on architecture and technology choices, create design systems, write clean testable code, and support nearshore engineering teams. The role requires adapting across technologies and projects, collaborating with product stakeholders, conducting code reviews, and improving engineering workflows.

Develops and architects Qt/QML frontend applications for aircraft simulation control, instructor, and debriefing stations. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, designing user interfaces and scalable software architecture, coding, testing, debugging, maintenance, code reviews, and collaboration within agile engineering teams. The role requires strong C++ and Qt/QML expertise, modern DevOps and containerization experience, and effective communication with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Develop system-level software, firmware, tools, and tests for high-performance AI inference platforms. Responsibilities include Linux kernel and driver development, bootloader and BSP work, hardware and silicon bring-up, debugging, profiling, performance and power optimization, and low-level interface integration. The engineer will collaborate with hardware, validation, and silicon teams to deliver production-quality software and support platform deployment in data centers.

Integrate and productionize NVIDIA DRIVE active safety software on customer vehicles. Diagnose system-level issues across sensors, perception, fusion, planning, and vehicle integration; configure and tune software; implement C++ or Python adaptations; analyze recorded data; conduct vehicle testing and validation; and coordinate root-cause resolution with global customer and engineering teams.

Develop software architecture and numerical tools for finite element tire simulations. Responsibilities include solver integration, mesh and geometry processing, simulation workflow maintenance, testing, debugging, validation, performance optimization for high-performance computing, and collaboration with engineering teams. The role also supports Git, CI/CD, code reviews, and continuous software improvement.

Lead the payments engineering function, combining people leadership with hands-on technical direction. Own architecture and delivery for payment authorization, capture, refunds, payouts, reconciliation, KYC, disputes, invoicing, and marketplace integrations. Drive reliability, security, observability, testing, incident response, and compliance while growing the team and partnering with Product, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Support, and Operations.

Build and operate secure, scalable payment services and third-party integrations while developing AI-powered and agentic workflows. Responsibilities include payment processing, reconciliation, settlement, tool calling, retrieval, permissions, guardrails, observability, testing, performance optimization, and technical architecture. The role requires Golang, production software engineering, distributed systems, databases, REST APIs, payment or POS integrations, LLM applications, and secure AI development practices.

Own AI-agent-driven development of secure payment services and agentic products for salons. Design specifications, acceptance criteria, tests, evaluations, observability, guardrails, and deployment workflows. Build integrations with booking, salon-management, payment, and financial systems, while managing workflows involving payments, bookings, refunds, reconciliation, and settlement. Develop retrieval and tool-calling agents, ensure safe execution around money and client data, and optimize reliability, security, speed, and cost.

Build and operate GetYourGuide’s internal agentic platform for engineering teams. Develop agent tooling, evaluation and observability systems, tracing, quality metrics, feedback loops, and guardrails. Shape workflows for defining, testing, monitoring, and optimizing agents; make architectural decisions; write RFCs; collaborate across teams; and mentor engineers. Requires strong TypeScript and Go skills, distributed systems and cloud-native experience, production LLM development, and technical leadership.

Develop and maintain SIL and HIL systems, automated test tooling, simulation environments, and CI-integrated test suites for safety- and security-critical embedded systems. Create verification strategies, fault-injection and fuzzing harnesses, timing analyses, metrics, and traceable evidence for regulated defence products. Collaborate with software, hardware, and systems engineers while serving as the technical point of contact for embedded testing.

Own the architecture and long-term direction of Alpaca’s Redpanda-based event streaming platform. Lead migration to event-driven systems, design scalable real-time client streaming, establish schema and library standards, shape authentication for streaming, partner on resilience and testing, mentor engineers, influence cross-team technical decisions, and participate in platform on-call. The role primarily uses Go and involves Kubernetes, Helm, PostgreSQL, observability, and distributed systems.

Build and operate production AI agent systems for enterprise customers, including session and memory models, retrieval-augmented generation, document intelligence, agentic workflows, multimodal inputs, evaluation frameworks, and language interfaces. Develop secure, multi-tenant SaaS services with tool orchestration, API integrations, auditability, guardrails, and data-residency controls. Optimize AI solutions for reliability, latency, cost, and autonomous task execution.

Develop and maintain scalable Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android architecture. Collaborate with iOS, backend, product, UX, and feature teams to deliver integrated mobile experiences. Improve architecture, performance, accessibility, battery usage, and code quality through testing, analytics, documentation, and modernization. Mentor engineers, contribute to technical strategy, and promote engineering best practices across the Android codebase.

Maintain and evolve the Storybook codebase, designing APIs for developers, addon authors, and maintainers. Responsibilities include issue triage, pull request reviews, RFC development, educational content, community engagement, cross-team collaboration, and support rotation participation. The role requires strong web development experience, knowledge of frontend frameworks and build tools, excellent communication, and enthusiasm for improving developer experience and AI-assisted development workflows.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement systems for AI integration, build scalable backend services, and mentor team members, ensuring high-quality systems that meet user needs.

Design and develop scalable web architectures using Next.js, Node.js, AWS, microservices, NoSQL, and event-driven systems. Own solution architecture and feature delivery while improving performance, security, scalability, modularity, and operational efficiency. Build reusable libraries, contribute to product roadmaps, share technical knowledge, and promote effective communication and collaboration across the engineering team.

Develop and maintain secure, reliable mobile SDK components for Android and iOS using Java, Objective-C, and native C/C++. Design backward-compatible APIs, troubleshoot performance and concurrency issues, contribute to automated testing and CI/CD, and collaborate with international Agile engineering teams. The role supports fraud prevention and digital identity products used across millions of devices.

Build and scale backend systems for AI-native construction procurement software. Own data models, GraphQL APIs, distributed processing semantics, integrations with construction ERPs, authorization, approvals, and transactional business workflows. Develop in Go with Postgres and AWS, while contributing to AI-driven document extraction, optimization, observability, and complex integrations. Collaborate in a fast-moving startup environment with evolving product requirements and strong ownership expectations.

Build core components of a diagnostic and personalization platform: backend data pipelines, frontends, services for genomic data ingestion, ML model integration, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with product and ML teams, iterate on prototypes and MVPs, and make architectural decisions supporting scalability and reliability.

Design and build the on-prem software stack for ModelVault appliances: containerized inference engines, model integration (LLMs/vision), deployment tooling, CLIs/GUI/APIs, OS and GPU setup, remote updates, telemetry, and collaborate with customers and founding team to iterate and scale the engineering org.

Build and enhance Navan’s expense platform across backend services, web experiences, APIs, event-driven money flows, receipt intelligence, and LLM-powered agents. Improve extraction quality, latency, cost, safety, observability, and financial-system correctness. Partner with Product and Design, own production quality, write technical designs, review code, and mentor engineers.

Build and ship production iOS features for an AI-powered travel and expense platform. Responsibilities include designing conversational and AI-driven UX, architecting Swift-first applications with modern concurrency, developing context-aware and real-time experiences, integrating networking and LLM capabilities, supporting offline functionality and push notifications, and using analytics and experimentation to improve quality. Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams while maintaining secure, well-tested code.

Design, develop, test, and operate scalable backend APIs for Zalando Payments. Build secure payment and reconciliation services using cloud-based microservices, interface with merchant systems, and support fintech compliance standards. Own the application lifecycle, contribute to architecture and technical decisions, maintain high standards for code quality and testing, and collaborate across teams while sharing technical knowledge.