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.

Required Skills & Experience

• 2+ years of professional, real world experience as a software developer
• Experience in shipping and maintaining both installed-on-device and cloud-based software
• Experience of Java development
• Experience of DevOps
• Experience with GCP, Azure, and/or AWS
• Familiarity with both relational and document-based database systems
• Familiarity with front-end programming (preferably React)
• 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 discipline
• Familiarity with chatbots or other conversational agents
• Understanding of user interface design principles
• Familiarity with C++ and Kotlin
• Familiarity with Docker
• Experience with shell scripting (BASH preferred) and systemd