Software Engineer
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Amsterdam - Netherlands
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Job Summary
Were a growing team of engineers operators and technicians from companies like Palantir Qualcomm Dyson Shopify Tesla Meta and Google DeepMind. Its still the early days of building the company and this is a chance to make an outsized impact on a problem that matters. We build the whole stack in-house - hardware and software. From day one youll work with an experienced founding team.
Monumental is based in the city centre of Amsterdam in a beautiful facility with an fully equipped workshop and robot testing floor. Were explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company - you cant build robots or walls from home so were onsite five days a week.
Read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction and learn about our vision and company. You might enjoy Based in Europes film on how were fixing Europes housing shortage or this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office looks like.
About the role
Monumental are automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Atrium our operating system for construction lets us do everything from building walls with our robots to designing buildings managing our robot fleet analyzing data and much more. Our stack is broad by necessity: we use Rust for many things from robot middleware to back-end services TypeScript across our web app and internal tools and NixOS to manage our servers as well as the computers in our robots.
As were deploying more robots and software were always running into new challenges. The problems are often not straightforward: poor connectivity on a construction site because of interference a memory leak that only becomes an issue after hours of runtime a robot behaving differently than the simulation. This means a lot of creative problem solving is involved. One of our engineers even traced down a problem to a memory leak in Chrome which got fixed soon after he submitted a bug report.
Additionally because were scaling our operations the scope of our software also keeps growing. Were now building internal apps for scheduling robot operators planning site logistics and maintenance and improving manufacturing. To make these applications possible we need well-architected software and reliable software infrastructure.
To help us build improve and maintain our platform were looking for a strong generalist software engineer. Full stack at Monumental is really full stack from the firmware for our robots actuators to our in-house document database. Youll get a lot of autonomy and the chance to build software that builds actual robots and houses. Youll also get the chance to collaborate with other engineering disciplines (e.g. electrical mechanical) to support new robot features or debug issues. For more on how we think about the role read Boukes post on his experience joining Monumental as a software engineer.
What youll do
Shipping features across the full stack from robot firmware and Rust services up through the web UI touching multiple layers.
Hardening production systems by tracking down subtle bugs like memory leaks network backpressure issues or race conditions that only show up in real deployments.
Owning our infrastructure end-to-end (bare-metal servers NixOS configs deploy tooling ) so that shipping changes to a robot on-site or a service is fast and reliable.
Building observability across our entire fleet so when something goes wrong on a robot or a service the team immediately knows where to look and why.
Building tools that multiply the whole teams effectiveness such as debugging tools data visualization tools or a platform that allows non-technical people to create their own apps.
Improving our data infrastructure from our in-house typed document database to ClickHouse.
What were looking for
Industry experience building and deploying production systems in multiple languages (Rust experience is valuable but not required)
A strong sense of ownership and motivation. Youre able to drive problems and projects start-to-finish without someone project managing you and can thrive in a chaotic environment.
Familiarity with Linux systems and conventions. E.g. youre comfortable SSHing into other machines to figure out why something isnt working.
Knowledge of common communication protocols e.g. UDP TCP and WebSockets
Strong CS or mathematics foundation. Understanding basic linear algebra and 3D transformations is a strong plus.
A high percentage of our software team have been a technical founder CTO or founding engineer before. If thats your background youll likely fit in. But we also get excited by people with a demonstrated background of shipping impressive work at any type of company.
Why Monumental
Joining Monumental means being at the forefront of a movement aimed at making significant strides in the construction industry. Here your work has the potential to impact not just the company but the future of how we build. If youre driven by innovation eager to tackle complex challenges and ready to make a tangible difference we want to hear from you.
For open applications (where you dont see an exact role match) please reach out to us at: - share with us the most interesting or challenging project youve worked on why you want to join and your CV or portfolio.
Unfortunately we do not currently support internships.
If you dont meet all the qualifications here but are excited about Monumental and feel youd still be able to help us solve difficult problems do get in touch. We welcome generalists who focus on outcomes and are eager to learn on the job.
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