Top Software Engineer Jobs in Germany

The Senior Backend Software Engineer will take ownership of Java applications, support a Self-Managed Platform, and ensure high performance in provisioning systems.

The role involves developing and debugging autonomous software for automotive platforms, working with machine learning engineers, and managing embedded hardware interfaces.

Design, build, and optimize backend services for data gathering, processing, and delivery. Define and maintain service contracts, ensure high test coverage, observability, and documentation. Make architectural decisions for distributed systems, collaborate with product teams, and maintain/ improve an existing Kotlin/Java codebase.

Lead backend development of Diabolocom's Voice Squad, building and optimizing core telephony services (call routing, media handling). Design and implement distributed systems, refactor for scalability and faster delivery, work across Java/Kotlin/Go, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Docker. Mentor teammates, own architectural decisions, improve existing codebase, and drive high-performance, reliable voice platform.

Build and maintain API integrations and the connectivity platform linking EV chargers, vehicles, and OEMs. Improve reliability, observability, and scalability; develop automations and internal tools for monitoring and triage; define SLAs and alerting; collaborate with product and engineering teams to balance stability and delivery.

As a Software Engineer, you will handle Network Control projects, define technical requirements, implement customer solutions, and support sales efforts.

As a Software Engineer II at Axon, you'll design and develop scalable software systems for airspace security, contribute to features and technical decisions, troubleshoot issues, and maintain documentation to enhance software quality.

Join the AI & Biometrics team to develop a resilient data platform for machine learning, focusing on data ingestion, transformation, and secure API development.

Develop and maintain Joybuy backend services for European retail markets, emphasizing high performance, availability, concurrency, security, scalability, and global integration. Mitigate technical risks, implement monitoring and rollback strategies, research and adopt new technologies, and collaborate with product teams across marketing, fulfillment, and supply chain.

Lead architecture and backend development for international core systems, ensuring high availability, concurrency, security, and scalability. Design Java/Spring Boot services, optimize performance, integrate MySQL/Redis/Kafka, manage technical risk, drive productization, mentor engineers, and coordinate with suppliers and product teams. Onsite role in London supporting European operations.

Build and deploy backend features for an AI-driven SaaS brand protection platform. Optimize performance and complex PostgreSQL queries, integrate AI/automation workflows, maintain testing and CI/CD, and collaborate with product, UX, QA, and AI teams.

Develop and harden ThinkRail by building VS Code and IntelliJ plugins, implementing the language server (analysis, completion, diagnostics, verification), improving the spec-to-code evaluator, and integrating with AI agent frameworks and protocols.

Build and maintain the control planes, automation, and observability for a global fleet of machines. Develop production-quality Go services for provisioning, health checks, upgrades, and incident remediation. Architect high-throughput, low-latency networking, improve utilization and power-to-performance, and collaborate with product and platform teams on storage-aware scheduling and developer-facing features.

Design, develop, and optimize EDA database infrastructure for chip-design tools. Debug and fix customer issues, profile and improve performance, reduce memory footprint, contribute to architecture and design reviews, write tested code and documentation, and participate in agile ceremonies.

Design, implement, maintain and test backend payment services within the Avaloq Banking Suite. Own payment modules end-to-end, run process analysis, translate requirements into designs and user stories, integrate third-party systems, improve reliability/observability, participate in code reviews, and support incident response and lifecycle management.

Senior software engineer responsible for implementing, maintaining and improving geocoding and search backend components. Collaborate in a Scrum team with analysts, testers and DevOps to design, review, and optimize algorithms, fix bugs, mentor teammates, and contribute to architecture and performance analysis using modern tools and cloud infrastructure.

Lead design and development of low-level Linux instrumentation and eBPF-based runtime security features for detection, monitoring, and workload protection. Drive architecture, implement performance-sensitive systems, establish testing methodologies, deliver end-to-end features, and provide technical leadership and cross-team collaboration across Datadog's security products.

Develop, operate and maintain microscopy-control software for instrument control, automation and real-time data workflows. Design GUIs, integrate hardware components, apply software-engineering best practices, diagnose software-hardware issues, support users, and introduce approaches (including AI) to improve reproducibility and performance.

Senior IC responsible for designing and implementing core banking systems that integrate digital assets, stablecoins and blockchain. Own end-to-end projects, make system-level design decisions, collaborate with product and clients, ship reliable, low-latency backend services, and mentor junior engineers.

Work across full game development cycle for a live free-to-play mobile title. Write and optimize C# in Unity, build reusable systems, solve memory/performance issues, collaborate with design/arts/production, and use AI coding tools daily to accelerate development and tooling.

Build and own end-to-end customer-facing features and APIs, maintain web app security and performance, and develop scalable multi-modal ingestion pipelines. Model the construction ontology and project graph, implement entity resolution, integrate with customer systems, and contribute to workflow/platform abstractions, evaluation tooling, and human review surfaces to support auditable, evidence-linked AI outputs.

Design, implement, and maintain features across the virtual cloud platform. Own end-to-end development, perform code and design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and improve platform capabilities (deployment, auth, developer experience). Contribute to architecture of distributed systems, APIs, databases, and cloud-native components.

Build and own end-to-end features across backend and frontend: design backend services and data models (Python/Django), implement RESTful APIs, create reusable frontend components (TypeScript/React), write tests, participate in code reviews, maintain production reliability and security, and collaborate with product and design.

Design, implement, and maintain backend APIs and data-processing workers for an Industrial IoT platform. Build scalable, reliable backend architectures in C++, Go, and Python; own larger projects; integrate automated tests and CI/CD; collaborate with frontend, DevOps, QA, and product teams to improve observability, performance, and security.

Design and implement motion planning and control modules for autonomous vehicles, characterize vehicle dynamics to close sim-to-real gaps, and develop optimal-control solutions (e.g., nonlinear MPC, MPPI). Test controls on production vehicles and write high-performance C++ code while evaluating academic research and deploying solutions across vehicle platforms.