Senior Software Development Engineer | Senior Ingenieur für Softwareentwicklung (m/w/d)

Sokratel GmbH

Hamburg, Hamburg, Deutschland
Published Feb 19, 2026
Full-time
Permanent

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will take on a leadership role, providing technical guidance to team members and optimizing collaborative work processes. Your daily responsibilities include developing new functions for operational management, control logic, and communication profiles. You will hold significant responsibility for product development and conceptual design, contributing your own ideas to prototyping while ensuring high-quality implementation and testability. This role is highly collaborative, requiring close interaction with interdisciplinary teams to meet project goals efficiently. What makes this position unique is the blend of technical depth in automation technology and leadership responsibility, combined with a modern work environment that offers 60% mobile work and flat hierarchies. You will work with cutting-edge technologies in machine and plant automation, making a tangible impact on innovative product development from the prototyping stage through to final implementation.

Required Skills

Education

University degree in Computer Science, Physics, or a comparable qualification.

Experience

  • Extensive professional experience in programming with Structured Text according to IEC 61131-3
  • Advanced programming experience in C and high-level languages
  • Proven experience in control and fieldbus technology within machine and plant automation
  • Practical experience in Model-Based Design using Matlab-Simulink
  • Demonstrated leadership experience in guiding, instructing, and motivating technical teams
  • Professional experience in object-oriented software design and product conceptualization

Languages

Not specified

Additional

  • Location constraints: 60% mobile work possible. Application requires CV, certificates, salary expectations, and earliest possible start date.