Top Software Engineer Jobs in Germany

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.

Develop and support Avaloq’s Web, Mobile Banking, and Crypto platforms. Responsibilities include writing scalable code, delivering features, managing incidents, troubleshooting production issues, supporting CI/CD and deployments, maintaining system reliability, onboarding banking services, testing, documenting solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders. The role requires software engineering, DevOps, application support, Unix/Linux scripting, cloud-native technologies, monitoring, security infrastructure, mobile integrations, and production operations experience.

Develop and maintain high-performance embedded software for optical telecommunications systems using Modern C++ on Intel and ARM architectures. Contribute to concurrency solutions, board support packages, application code, testing, debugging, CI/CD, code reviews, and design discussions. Work with ASICs, FPGAs, multicore CPUs, and hardware-software interfaces while applying AI-assisted development tools.

Lead development and production operation of distributed microservices supporting analytical query engines. Evolve a premium query engine, deliver migration milestones, analyze customer workloads, build operational tooling, and maintain security and reliability across large-scale systems. The role requires Java and Python expertise, distributed data-intensive systems experience, asynchronous programming, fleet-wide deployments, and production ownership.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for solving complex platform and infrastructure challenges, defining multi-year architecture, and leading foundational initiatives across the software platform. The role focuses on APIs, abstractions, system architecture, scalability, software quality, and engineering velocity. The engineer will identify architectural bottlenecks, drive initiatives from design through deployment, serve as a technical escalation point, build consensus across teams, and mentor engineers.

Develop and support scalable MES applications, reporting solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and event-driven integrations for global manufacturing operations. The role involves Java and SQL development, troubleshooting integrated systems, root-cause analysis, documentation, process improvement, and collaboration with engineering, DevOps, and manufacturing teams.

Implement and ship Storage Encryption Everywhere in Firefox’s Gecko engine. Responsibilities include schema migrations, encrypted data storage, integration testing, Web Platform Tests, Gecko tests, code review, specification clarification, release shepherding, and fixing correctness, performance, and regression issues across Nightly, Beta, and Release channels.

Develop and optimize a highly parallelized, distributed process query engine using modern C++ and Java. Design data-management and query-execution algorithms, benchmark performance, improve scalability and reliability, support production systems, mentor engineers, lead projects, and define technical roadmaps while collaborating with stakeholders and customers.

Diagnose and verify long-tail Firefox WebCompat bugs, reproduce and triage site-breakage reports, write WebCompat interventions, and implement simple AI-assisted fixes. The role turns reported browser compatibility issues into actionable or resolved bugs using web development skills, browser DevTools, and cross-browser debugging.

Build and operate production systems for optimization, forecasting, machine learning, and generative AI. Design scalable data and ML pipelines, enable model training and evaluation, productionize deployments, and implement monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks. Partner with scientists, product managers, engineers, and commercial stakeholders to create reliable systems while strengthening engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational ownership.

Develop and integrate the full UAV avionics stack, including firmware, component selection, communication architecture, autonomy systems, flight controls, GCS plugins, and multi-vehicle coordination. Build and test hardware in simulation and flight, troubleshoot system communications, document requirements and tuning procedures, and support hardware-in-the-loop and environmental validation. The role requires strong PX4, ArduPilot, QGC, low-level UAV, and avionics integration expertise.

Build and maintain the internal frontend platform supporting 250+ micro-frontends and hundreds of engineers. Own runtime, build, deployment, developer experience, shared libraries, and micro-frontend architecture using TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Lead technical initiatives, improve reliability and performance, support CI/CD, and develop safeguards for AI-agent-assisted software delivery. Collaborate across teams, document architectural decisions, and balance immediate feature enablement with long-term platform health.

Analyze anti-bot and bot-mitigation systems, identify how websites detect and block scraping activity, and develop repeatable testing and bypass approaches. Build a greenfield agentic environment for evaluating anti-bot behavior, contribute to backend systems at scale, investigate complex incidents, and communicate findings clearly. The role requires deep web protocol knowledge, strong Node.js, TypeScript, and Python skills, scientific problem-solving, AI coding agent proficiency, and independent execution in a remote-first team.

Senior Software Engineer to design and implement C++/Python software, accelerate workloads with CUDA, develop and maintain Linux kernel modules and system services, optimize system and GPU performance, manage Linux systems, mentor junior engineers, and integrate AI technologies across products.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating distributed market data systems. The role focuses on real-time blockchain data ingestion, streaming, normalization, storage, APIs, reliability, data correctness, observability, incident recovery, and production support. The engineer will lead technical decisions, mentor teammates, translate ambiguous requirements into designs, and use AI-assisted development throughout the software lifecycle.

Senior software solutions engineer responsible for resolving complex Ethernet and InfiniBand adapter/DPU issues, developing tooling and features, collaborating with customers and engineering, and improving reliability and experience of NVIDIA networking products. Role mixes 50% customer support/issue ownership and 50% R&D.

Build and modernize TOPdesk’s customer-facing Knowledge Base across frontend and backend systems. Use agentic workflows with Claude Code to frame problems, orchestrate implementation, verify results, and maintain production quality. Work across Java, MS SQL, TypeScript, Vue, Azure, and Kubernetes while contributing tests, observability, migration validation, shared agent libraries, reusable prompts, and coaching for other engineers.

Set technical direction for Kuro’s applied AI platform, mentor engineers, define engineering standards, and build end-to-end customer-facing AI features. Own architecture, model and retrieval decisions, evaluations, error analysis, workflow infrastructure, human review tools, construction ontology, entity resolution, document ingestion, and enterprise integrations. The role requires full-stack ownership across databases, backend, AI systems, and UI while working onsite with a small Berlin-based team.

Designs and maintains cross-platform C++ software for music production tools, contributing to firmware, desktop, and mobile development. The role leads complex feature implementation, architectural decisions, code reviews, requirements refinement, developer mentoring, and improvements to development workflows. Collaboration with hardware and software teams is central, along with maintaining production-grade code and supporting seamless user experiences.

Build and maintain scalable backend microservices, own features from concept through deployment, evolve technical architecture, implement OAuth and Auth0 authentication, and optimize PostgreSQL data layers. The role requires production-quality Node.js and TypeScript development, automated testing, Docker, Git, and CI/CD knowledge. Bonus experience includes AWS, monitoring tools, technical mentoring, and leading project direction.

As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you will design and implement software solutions using Kotlin and TypeScript with React, focusing on optimizing transport planning at Zalando. Responsibilities include developing features, collaborating with teams, and improving the code base.

Build and ship production-grade full-stack software integrated with agentic AI systems. Responsibilities include integrating LLM APIs, using AI-assisted development tools, evaluating AI-generated outputs, building application and API layers, tracking AI productivity KPIs, and supporting Agile delivery from design through production. Contribute to reusable components, AI tooling standards, and integrations involving agent architectures, RAG pipelines, and enterprise AI workflows.

Build and maintain core Java libraries and JVM infrastructure for Snowflake’s high-performance data cloud. Responsibilities include improving system safety, efficiency, reliability, availability, and performance; troubleshooting complex Java systems; implementing monitoring and automation; and collaborating with global engineering teams on large-scale infrastructure challenges.

Build, maintain, test, document, and release Camunda 8 self-managed deployment artifacts, including Helm charts, C8Run, and Docker Compose. Improve installation, upgrades, and day-two operations while contributing to CI/CD, deployment automation, infrastructure testing, and shared tooling. Collaborate with support, consulting, presales, engineering, product, QA, and documentation teams; participate in medic rotations and resolve engineering support cases. Use customer feedback to prioritize improvements and help advance lifecycle ownership.

Develop and architect C++ software for the user interface and business logic of connected fitness machines. Build customer-facing features using technologies such as Qt/QML, Docker, CMake, and Conan; contribute to testing, documentation, deployment, automation, and CI/CD. Collaborate with product, design, firmware, cloud, and site reliability teams, support field issues, share technical knowledge, and help evolve software architecture and development practices.