Principal Software Engineer
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Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Stockholm
- On-site
Job Description
Role:
Principal Software Engineer Platform Owner (Hands-on)
Context:
At Furhat Robotics we build social humanoid robots that talk listen and interact with people in the real world.
Our robots are already used by universities research labs hospitals and innovation teams around the world to study and deploy humanAI interaction.
This isnt a prototype or a pitch deck.
Its a real shipped product running globally.
Technically its a rare mix of:
- hardware
- realtime systems
- SDKs
- cloud services
- AI/LLMs
- developer tools
Were profitable and small (20 people).
Were not trying to build a big engineering organization.
We want one very strong engineer who can own the whole platform.
The role (plainly):
You will take full ownership of engineering.
Not manage it.
Not coordinate it.
Own it.
If something breaks ships late or feels messy its yours to fix.
If things run smoothly you did your job.
Youll work directly with the CEO our CSO (research) and our product manager.
We have two junior consultants today. Youll lead them and decide how we build going forward.
What youll actually do:
Expect 8090% hands-on coding/building/fixing.
This is not a management role.
You will:
- Own the robot platform (Java)
- Own the SDK (Kotlin)
- Own internal tools (React)
- Own APIs and backend services
- Own cloud & DevOps (AWS/Azure)
- Run CI/CD and releases
- Clean up legacy and simplify architecture
- Break roadmap into shipped features
- Guide/mentor junior engineers and consultants
- Hire very selectively when truly needed
When engineering is slow or fragile you fix the system not add headcount.
What success looks like:
After 612 months:
- Releases are predictable
- Shipping is faster
- Fewer fires
- Cleaner architecture
- Consultants need less babysitting
- Furhat engineering has momentum and continues to lead with software capabilities
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
About the company Furhat Robotics revolutionizes how people interact with information around them. We are a high-growth artificial intelligence and robotics startup from KTH in Sweden. Our vision is to create technology that is built fundamentally on principles of social intelligence ... View more
