Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software EngineerSeegrid is the leading provider of Physical AI for material handling. Our solution includes autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), fleet management software, actionable analytics, and best-in-class services and support. Our technology is proven. Our AMRs have safely driven millions of autonomous miles in real-world production facilities. We are seeking energetic, bright, and friendly people to help achieve our vision: to fortify global supply chains and create profitable economies with safe, seamless, and smart mobile robotics solutions.The Role: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.Responsibilities:Implement Fleet Management FeaturesDesign and evolve distributed fleet orchestration services for task allocation and robot state managementImprove high-availability systems for dispatch, path planning integration, traffic management integration, and consequences of robot success and error statesImplement resilient messaging patterns (pub/sub, event streaming, eventual consistency)Dive into large code bases to surgically improve or extract functionalityIntegrate with robot APIs (REST, gRPC, MQTT, VDA5050, proprietary APIs)Build Real-Time & Data-Centric SystemsImprove data ingestion pipelines for high-frequency robot and infrastructure data for the purpose of observability and the execution of business logicImplement event-driven systems using message brokers (e.g. Rabbit MQ, Mosquitto, Kafka)Build scalable APIs for mission control, fleet analytics, integrations, and diagnosticsOptimize data models for a variety of competing requirementsDrive Technical LeadershipAccelerate the technical growth of the team through hands-on mentorship and leading by exampleRaise the bar of system architecture, software quality, and software development life cycleMinimize custom code by bringing best-in-class tooling and framework experience to bear at the right place and the right timeRequired Qualifications:8+ years of software engineering experienceHighly 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 discussionProven experience mentoring junior engineersProven broad experience designing, implementing, deploying, and debugging distributed systems at scaleExcellent software engineering skills in a JVM based language. Kotlin is preferred and language breadth is valuedProficiency developing and deploying in both MacOS and Linux environmentsProven experience with event-driven architectures and message brokersDeep understanding of REST, Websockets, gRPC, and AMQP APIsProven experience with and strong technical understanding of PostgreSQLProven experience deploying, configuring, and debugging both OS-level virtualization (Docker/containers) and hardware-level virtualization (VMs, bare-metal hypervisors)Desirable Qualifications:Experience in a variety of business domains. Experience in automated material handling for manufacturing and warehousing is a plusProven experience and deep technical understanding of common enterprise-grade JVM frameworks such as Spring and HibernateFamiliar with modern web app frameworks (Vue, React, Angular, etc.)Proven experience supporting legacy software systemsExperience with JIRA, TeamCity, and ArtifactoryExperience with Clickhouse, Redis, Azure, and SnowflakeSeegrid has been recognized regionally and nationally as a Best-Place-to-Work. We'd love to have you join us!All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. Seegrid is an equal opportunity employer Minorities/Females/People with Disabilities/Protected Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.