Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead the technical direction and development of our autonomous industrial robotic fleet management software. This is a high-impact technical leadership role requiring deep experience in distributed backend systems and modern web-based operational UIs. The role will be responsible for refactoring and writing new code that sets a high bar for code quality including testability, stability, performance, security, and interoperability. This senior role balances high-impact technical execution with project leadership and team mentorship, combining a passion for solving complex problems with beautiful code while guiding projects and elevating junior engineers. Ideally based out of Pittsburgh, PA, with less than 15%+ travel if remote.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Highly autonomous technical driver. Senior-level intuition is required to confidently execute with minimal oversight. When you see a problem you bias towards action rather than discussion
- Proven experience mentoring junior engineers
- Proven broad experience designing, implementing, deploying, and debugging distributed systems at scale
- Excellent software engineering skills in a JVM based language. Kotlin is preferred and language breadth is valued
- Proficiency developing and deploying in both MacOS and Linux environments
- Proven experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers
- Deep understanding of REST, Websockets, gRPC, and AMQP APIs
- Proven experience with and strong technical understanding of PostgreSQL
- Proven experience deploying, configuring, and debugging both OS-level virtualization (Docker/containers) and hardware-level virtualization (VMs, bare-metal hypervisors)
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a variety of business domains. Experience in automated material handling for manufacturing and warehousing is a plus
- Proven experience and deep technical understanding of common enterprise-grade JVM frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
- Familiar with modern web app frameworks (Vue, React, Angular, etc.)
- Proven experience supporting legacy software systems
- Experience with JIRA, TeamCity, and Artifactory
- Experience with Clickhouse, Redis, Azure, and Snowflake
Responsibilities
- Implement Fleet Management Features
- Design and evolve distributed fleet orchestration services for task allocation and robot state management
- Improve high-availability systems for dispatch, path planning integration, traffic management integration, and consequences of robot success and error states
- Implement resilient messaging patterns (pub/sub, event streaming, eventual consistency)
- Dive into large code bases to surgically improve or extract functionality
- Integrate with robot APIs (REST, gRPC, MQTT, VDA5050, proprietary APIs)
- Build Real-Time & Data-Centric Systems
- Improve data ingestion pipelines for high-frequency robot and infrastructure data for the purpose of observability and the execution of business logic
- Implement event-driven systems using message brokers (e.g. Rabbit MQ, Mosquitto, Kafka)
- Build scalable APIs for mission control, fleet analytics, integrations, and diagnostics
- Optimize data models for a variety of competing requirements
- Drive Technical Leadership
- Accelerate the technical growth of the team through hands-on mentorship and leading by example
- Raise the bar of system architecture, software quality, and software development life cycle
- Minimize custom code by bringing best-in-class tooling and framework experience to bear at the right place and the right time
Benefits
- Seegrid has been recognized regionally and nationally as a Best-Place-to-Work.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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