Senior Software Engineer

HiveMQ empowers businesses to transform with the most trusted MQTT platform. Designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data under real-world stress, the HiveMQ MQTT platform is the proven enterprise standard and powers use cases in automotive, energy, logistics, smart manufacturing, transportation, and more. Leading brands like Audi, BMW, Liberty Global, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens, and ZF choose HiveMQ to build smarter IoT projects, modernize factories, and create better customer experiences.

HiveMQ is a remote-first company headquartered in Landshut, Germany, with a US office in Boston, Massachusetts. The last time we counted, we spoke 32 languages within our diverse team at HiveMQ. We are looking for innovative, motivated, and passionate individuals to join our rapidly growing company. 

HiveMQ’s Vision for this role

The HiveMQ Dev team is dedicated to ensuring application resiliency and delivering the HiveMQ software platform in the highest quality. As a member of the HiveMQ development team, you will design, develop, and deliver solutions that enhance the scalability, availability, and efficiency of the HiveMQ software portfolio. This role works in unison with our support and SaaS teams identifying problems, patterns, anti-patterns, and opportunities to add resilience to our platform and core product. We work with agile principles and believe ruthless automation enables us to move fast while continuously meriting the trust that our customers store in us every day.

You will…

• Architect, build, and maintain the core software for massively-scalable global MQTT deployments
• Create self-healing software systems with state-of-the-art tools
• Work together with product management to create visionary functionality
• Develop and implement concurrent, maintainable, and performant algorithms
• Work intensively with profilers, benchmarking, and state analysis tools
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks
• Solve edge cases and find the common truths behind them

You have…

• Outstanding interpersonal skills and you can effectively coordinate and work in a team of developers 
• A high sense of ownership and take pride in the work you accomplish
• Experience developing and shipping business relevant software
• Experience writing reliable and scalable software
• Experience using git, testing, and CI/CD tools
• Deep knowledge of Java and the JVM
• Ability to debug complex problems to find and implement solutions for the future
• Experience designing high-throughput data-intensive applications
• Experience integrating with state of the art third party systems, like MongoDB, Kafka or Hazelcast 

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Informations about our job advertisements

Job advertisements of HiveMQ GmbH are always directed at female, male and various applicants, regardless of age, gender, religion, sexual identity, disability, race, ethnic origin, world view, etc. The selection of a candidate is exclusively based on qualifications. For organisational reasons, we cannot return application documents and cannot reimburse any expenses that you incur during the application process.