Software Engineer
We’re searching for an enterpreneurial software engineer to advance the Furhat platform. The successful candidate will be an enterpreneurial technologist, with a wide set of interests spanning the wide tech stack we use at Furhat. The ideal candidate is strong at devops, and has a wide set of skills that allow them to be able to maintain and support a large set of technologies including the Furhat operating system, the Furhat SDK, and many of our onboard and cloud services.
This person strives to empower our customers, and has advanced and customer-service mindset, to support our sales teams, and our customers. The foundation of success for this role is a candidate that joins Furhat focusing on the long term success of the company, the product, and the vision of bringing robots to society, and is not merly interested in working on specific technologies in our platform
As a software engineer at Furhat, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and advancing our platform. You’ll be responsible for making decisions about architecture and technology adoption, roadmap design and backlog prioritisation and be accountable for the performance, maintainability, and customer impact of those decisions.You’ll be a member of a highly effective, cross-functional team, driving design meetings and agile processes necessary to achieve timely, high quality results.
Skills & Requirements
Required Skills & Experience- 10 years of professional, real world experience as a software developer
Experience in shipping and maintaining both installed-on-device and cloud-based software
At least five years of experience in Java (preferred)
Some experience in Kotlin
Familiarity with C++
Extensive experience debugging complex distributed systems
Experience working within and developing for Linux systems (Ubuntu preferred)
Strong communication skills necessary to drive effective communication in a global, hybrid workplace environment
Strong understanding of best practices across a wide variety of technologies, including both functional programming and OOP methodologies
Strong ability to decompose large complex problems into manageable, loosely coupled tasks
Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining customer-facing APIs
Desired Skills & Experience
A bachelor's degree or better in computer science or related disciplineFamiliarity with chatbots or other conversational agents
Understanding of user interface design principles
Experience with GCP, Azure, or AWS (preferred)
Familiarity with Docker
Experience with shell scripting (BASH preferred) and systemd
Familiarity with React
Familiarity with both relational and document-based database systems
Great Place to Work
Flexible hours
Competitive option package
Paid vacation & parental leave
Monthly workout grants
Personal health insurance & life insurance
Free beverages, snacks, team ginger shots
Choose your own tech gear
Located at Södermalm, close to Södra Station
Friday breakfast
Team building. Game nights, AWs, cook-offs etc.
Easily accessible for commuters
Work with the coolest technology around
About the company
Furhat Robotics, the industry leader in social robotics, is revolutionizing the way people interact with technology. Our robots provide the most accessible platform for creating deep, engaging, and impactful experiences. By leveraging a unique combination of core platform and artificial intelligence technologies, we empower our customers to build sophisticated, human-like, socially-aware interactions.
We’re a growing startup company that originated within the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Because of this, our robots are built with strong fundamentals in human robot interaction (HRI) and conversational system design.Our experience and deep expertise gives our customers the advantage in creating interactions that would otherwise be impossible. We’re leading the robot revolution, and in search of others who believe in inspiring the future of early adopters and innovators around the world.
Kim Johansson | Contact Person