At Joby Aviation, based in California, we have been working since 2009 on developing an air taxi that will safely, emission-free, and quietly transport people to their destinations in the near future, while also being accessible and affordable for everyone.
The Joby team, consisting of over 1800 engineers and experts from various fields in the United States, received additional reinforcement in mid-2020: Joby Germany GmbH, located in Sauerlach near Munich, brings its engineering expertise to the development of our electric aircraft (eVTOL = electric vertical take-off and landing) on its path to series production, highlighting Joby Aviation's continued growth.
As an integral member of our Factory Systems team, you will play a leading role in bringing the production of our eVTOL to Industry 4.0. You will be responsible for conception and development of services interacting with everything from large production machines to users and everything in between, driving automation and coherence to existing regulations in this new type of industry. With your development skills, you will drive the integration of our production machines and the connection to all related production data, significantly advancing automation to the greatest extent possible.
Be the pilot of your career and take off with and join the Joby team in Munich as:
Software Engineering Lead (m/f/d)
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and build the Software Engineering team in Munich while actively mentoring and upskilling team members.
- Technical Product Leadership: Act as the technical owner of the products your team creates. Drive the architectural vision for our manufacturing systems, specifically leading the strategic pipeline shift toward Event-Driven Architecture
- Hands-on Individual Contribution: Lead by example through writing robust, scalable Python backend services. Interface with production machinery, IoT devices, and external systems as a senior IC.
- System Maintenance & Scaling: Oversee, maintain, and optimize our wide, existing landscape of software components designed to guide and enforce manufacturing processes on-site.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to refine complex requirements, ensure strict regulatory compliance, and align functionalities with evolving production goals.
- Vendor Management: Engage with external vendors to define strategies for system stability, performance, and interoperability.
- International Exposure: Participate in critical deployments, vendor strategy sessions, and integration work across our facilities in the US and Germany.
Your Profile:
- Education: Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience in software engineering.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Proven track record in a lead, staff, or principal capacity where you successfully guided technical product development and actively mentored junior engineers.
- Core Technical Expertise: Advanced programming skills in Python with a deep understanding of scalable backend system design.
- Event-Driven & API Design: Extensive, hands-on experience designing and implementing Event-Driven Architectures and streaming technologies (specifically Kafka). Strong proficiency with RESTful APIs.
- Infrastructure & Data: Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, edge computing paradigms, and GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines. Solid experience with databases like PostgreSQL and MSSQL.
- Methodologies: Highly comfortable navigating the complexities of industrial production settings, managing technical debt, and driving agile development practices in a fast-paced hardware/software environment.
Our offer:
- Permanent job with a long-term perspective
- 30 days of vacation per year (half day extra off on Christmas eve and new years eve)
- Work with the latest technologies and innovations
- Encouragement of your willingness to perform and take responsibility with internal and external further training (e.g. language training)
- Flexible working hours and location (on-site & home office)
- Attractive compensation package including a fixed salary and employee stock options
- Extra monthly benefit via Edenred.de voucher card
- Commuter support - choose reimbursement for commuting by car or public transport ticket
- Free charging for your electric car
- Childcare and kindergarten allowance of up to EUR 100 per month/per child
- Subsidized lunch EUR 7 per day
- Relocation allowance support if you’re moving to join us
- Regular team events to celebrate successes together
