Senior Control Software Engineer (all genders welcome)

Senior Control Software Engineer – Goodbytz

Goodbytz develops intelligent cooking robots that enable professional chefs to scale culinary quality while reducing food waste. We’re building technology that supports the food‑service industry, elevates culinary quality, and makes sustainable cooking accessible to everyone.

Responsibilities

• End‑to‑end ownership of features and issue resolution: identify, reproduce, diagnose, fix, test, and deploy changes across the control‑software codebase while making independent design decisions.
• Boost reliability and performance: strengthen core components—including planning, orchestration logic, state machines, and embedded sensor/actuator control—to reduce field bugs, regressions, and mean time to recovery while increasing throughput and system stability.
• Level‑3 production support: act as the escalation point for unexpected field issues, triage incidents using telemetry, contain impact, implement long‑term fixes, and feed learnings back into code, test coverage, and operational runbooks.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional experience at the intersection of software and hardware.
• Strong software‑development skills with a clear understanding of hardware‑related contexts.
• Proven experience in at least one of the following areas: academic research, startup environments, or independently developed technical projects.
• Exceptional code comprehension skills – able to read and debug others’ code faster than they can.
• High sense of ownership – take full responsibility for code, features, bugs, and long‑term maintainability.
• Fluent in English; German or other languages are a plus.

Key Skills & Mindset

• Ownership mindset: drive solutions end‑to‑end and ensure they hold up in production.
• Systems thinking: reason across multiple layers—from planning to embedded I/O—and anticipate side effects.
• Exceptional debugging skills: reproduce issues, instrument systems, and identify root causes in a hypothesis‑driven way.
• Pragmatic engineering approach: balance ideal design, speed, and risk; know when to refactor versus apply a quick fix.
• Clear communicator: provide concise updates and write clean tickets, pull requests, and incident reports.
• Learning agility: absorb new domains, tools, and codebases, actively seek feedback, and iterate effectively.
• Code quality advocate: promote maintainable patterns, well‑designed interfaces, and thorough documentation.

Benefits

• Subsidy for Urban Sports Club membership (M‑package).
• Subsidy for the Deutschlandticket (hvv Jobticket Premium).
• Edenred City Card.
• Bike leasing offer to support sustainable commuting.
• Mental wellbeing platform (OpenUp) with coaching and resilience workshops.
• Regular team events and activities, including cooking evenings and joint workouts.
• Access to innovative food testings and a variety of dishes prepared by our robots.
• Dynamic startup environment with flat hierarchies and opportunities to grow with the company.
• Flexible working hours and possibility to work remotely where the position allows.

Join Goodbytz and help shape the future of cooking technology while enjoying a supportive, inclusive, and innovative workplace.