Top Software Engineer Jobs in Germany

Develop and maintain business-critical financial services using Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot. Collaborate with cross-functional teams while learning Domain-Driven Design, agile practices, testing, CI/CD, AWS cloud-native development, containerized services, event-driven workloads, infrastructure as code, observability, and secure software delivery. Contribute to resilient, compliant production workflows and continuous improvement with guidance from experienced engineers.

Build and maintain developer tools across SDKs, React Email, CLI, MCP, integrations, and supporting backend services. Collaborate on APIs, compatibility, testing, releases, documentation, and shared tooling. Support developers through GitHub issues and pull requests while designing reliable interfaces, error handling, and backward-compatible experiences. The role also involves operating systems with authentication, retries, rate limits, queues, monitoring, and error recovery.

Forward Deployed Software Engineers work directly with customers to understand complex operational problems and build data-driven software solutions. They own high-stakes projects end to end, including architecture, large-scale data processing, custom web application development, and strategic collaboration with technical and executive stakeholders. The role requires strong software engineering, analytical problem-solving, independent execution, teamwork, German fluency, and security clearance eligibility. Travel to client sites may be required, potentially 25–50% of the time.

Architect and deploy multimodal 2D/3D object detection systems using camera, LiDAR, and radar. Build data collection, evaluation, and proprietary dataset pipelines; train, monitor, and improve production perception models; develop the perception roadmap; and mentor junior engineers. The role requires end-to-end perception stack experience, cross-functional leadership, Python proficiency, and advanced education in computer science, robotics, or deep learning.

Design and build production-grade mission, behavior, and motion planning systems for autonomous ground-support vehicles in airport environments. Responsibilities include selecting planning algorithms, architecting software interfaces, optimizing trajectories, addressing uncertainty and real-time constraints, collaborating with perception and controls teams, applying safety practices, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong C++ or Python skills, Linux experience, and hands-on autonomous systems planning experience.

Build and own the engineering systems that enable safe, efficient coding-agent development. Responsibilities include creating agent harnesses, improving repository usability, automating testing and verification, supporting CI and disposable environments, designing human approval gates, optimizing merge-request handoffs, tracking engineering productivity metrics, and scaling effective AI workflows across the organization. The role requires strong production software engineering judgment, deep coding-agent experience, and the ability to review architecture and code critically.

Build and own the production AI agent platform powering TradeLink’s logistics products. Develop runtime capabilities for agent context, tools, state, memory, retries, permissions, approvals, audit trails, evaluations, observability, and integrations. Establish safe boundaries between deterministic logic and model-driven decisions, convert customer workflows into reusable platform features, and write substantial production code while improving reliability and debugging agent behavior.

Design and build flight simulation environments connecting simulators with autonomy and onboard software. Develop plugins, interfaces, and bridges for realistic flight behavior, sensor data, and mission scenarios. Enable software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing for GNC, embedded, and autonomy teams. Own simulation architecture, engineering quality, testing, debugging, code reviews, and collaboration across teams.

Develop privacy, anti-tracking, and threat-intelligence protections for Firefox. Improve the Gecko browser engine and build performant, low-latency C++, JavaScript, and Rust software. Independently scope and deliver complex features, contribute to browser architecture, and collaborate asynchronously with a distributed global team. The role focuses on privacy, phishing mitigation, memory safety, multithreaded systems, and web platform security.

Integrate production C++, embedded middleware, and AI inference components into autonomous-driving software stacks. Develop adapters and glue code, debug software across embedded hardware and middleware, validate inference performance, and execute embedded, recompute, regression, and HIL testing. Own complex integration issues through root-cause analysis and resolution while collaborating with ML, hardware, simulation, and vehicle engineering teams.

Drive technical sales of Microsoft and GitHub cloud and AI development technologies for manufacturing customers in Germany. Lead workshops, demos, architecture discussions, pilots, and proofs of concept involving GitHub, Copilot, Azure, CI/CD, DevOps, platform engineering, security, and observability. Partner with account teams, engineers, and customers to qualify opportunities, overcome technical barriers, and support adoption across factory, edge, SAP-adjacent, and industrial-data scenarios.

Design and deliver internal systems, Go services, APIs, data models, dashboards, visualizations, and LLM-powered workflow features. The role includes writing specifications, estimating work, code reviews, testing, documentation, security, performance, accessibility, and collaboration with nontechnical stakeholders. The engineer will handle sensitive people data, mentor colleagues, and improve team practices in a globally distributed environment.

Own the technical delivery of production AI systems for HR, including employee and recruiting agents, enterprise integrations, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, monitoring, privacy, security, and compliance. Make architecture and build-versus-buy decisions, write production code, establish engineering standards, and translate HR priorities into scalable implementations using AWS, LLM APIs, and internal AI platforms.

Design, build, and maintain backend services for quantum-computing control and orchestration systems. Manage configuration, system health, cluster operations, and distributed networked environments. Integrate with hardware-facing and embedded systems, support product installation, and improve reliability and observability. Own features through the full software development lifecycle while collaborating with engineers across sites and disciplines.

Design, develop, and maintain high-quality web applications using CodeIgniter and PHP. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and ship features, ensure application performance and quality, identify and fix bugs, and maintain code quality and automation.

Build and maintain reliable, scalable cloud-native microservices for automotive connectivity systems. Develop secure REST and gRPC APIs, asynchronous processing, and high-throughput data services using Java, Kotlin, AWS, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, and event-driven architectures. Responsibilities include deployment automation, performance optimization, testing, code reviews, troubleshooting, monitoring, and evaluating NoSQL, caching, and relational data solutions.

Lead embedded software development per the V-Model: analyze customer requirements, define AUTOSAR-based software architecture, implement Embedded C drivers, own HW-SW interfaces, set up CI/CD and toolchains, promote model-based development, manage external partners, and drive embedded systems strategy and process improvements.

Builds software solutions for end users as a general full-stack engineer. The role emphasizes collaboration, ownership, accountability, fast-paced execution, adaptability, multitasking, rapid learning, and an ambitious, outcome-driven approach.

Software Engineering Interns will build reliable, secure cloud software and services while gaining hands-on experience with database internals, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, compilers, query execution, streaming pipelines, and SQL. The role requires foundational knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and operating systems; programming experience in C++ or Java; and familiarity with multithreading and concurrency. Interns collaborate with experienced teams on real-world projects and must remain enrolled in a technical degree program.

Build and maintain internal and public-facing APIs and services powering the Web App and developer experience. Develop API functionality, Admin API systems, WebSocket and REST behavior, and usage and billing integrations with Stripe. Investigate production issues and security vulnerabilities, write and review tested code, make technical decisions, and collaborate across engineering, Product, and Design teams.

Develop safety-critical embedded software for Eurodrone flight control and flight management systems. Responsibilities include implementing high-integrity code, applying model-based development with tools such as SCADE or MATLAB/Simulink, and contributing across architecture, modeling, testing, and verification under DO-178C standards. The role requires collaboration with aerospace and software teams to enable autonomous unmanned flight.

Lead the development of Runware's serverless platform by building core systems for AI workload management and providing technical guidance to the team.

Lead development of Runware’s AI platform, including scalable backend APIs, SDKs, developer tools, and inference orchestration systems. Design high-performance distributed architectures, optimize image and video model integrations, improve reliability and observability, shape technical direction, and mentor engineers. Collaborate across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver robust developer experiences and maintainable systems.

Design, build, and maintain highly available, durable, horizontally scalable backend services for a distributed streaming platform. Lead multi-month engineering initiatives, improve disaster recovery, implement operator tooling, collaborate on CI and DevOps, and participate in L3 support and on-call rotations to resolve production performance issues.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable enterprise software and travel technology platforms. Responsibilities include API and integration development, distributed systems, architecture modernization, automated testing, continuous integration, observability, cloud-native practices, and AI-assisted engineering. The role also involves technical assessment, mentorship, cross-team collaboration, and contributing to the full software development lifecycle.