Senior Software Engineer

Seegrid; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Job summary

Seegrid is seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of our autonomous fleet management software. You will guide distributed backend systems and modern web UIs, balancing hands-on coding with project leadership and mentorship.

Based in Pittsburgh, PA, this role emphasizes code quality, testability, performance, and interoperability, with travel kept minimal. You will work on high-impact features across dispatch, data pipelines, and APIs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Senior-level autonomous driver with bias toward action.
• Mentoring junior engineers.
• Distributed systems design, deployment, and debugging at scale.
• Proficiency in JVM-based languages; Kotlin preferred.
• Experience on MacOS and Linux environments.
• Event-driven architectures and message brokers knowledge.
• REST, WebSockets, gRPC, and AMQP familiarity.
• PostgreSQL expertise; Docker and virtualization experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve distributed fleet orchestration services for task allocation and robot state management.
• Improve high-availability systems for dispatch, path planning integration, and telemetry.
• Implement resilient messaging patterns and scalable APIs for fleet analytics and diagnostics.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for architecture and software quality.

Skills

Autonomy and action bias

Mentoring juniors

Distributed systems design

Java / JVM experience

Kotlin

REST/WebSockets/gRPC/AMQP

PostgreSQL

Docker/containers

VMs / virtualization

Tools

Kotlin

Java

PostgreSQL

Docker

VMs

REST

gRPC

AMQP

WebSockets

Job description

Why join Seegrid?

Seegrid 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.

Why join Seegrid?

Seegrid 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 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

Required Qualifications

• 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)

Desirable Qualifications

• 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

Seegrid 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.