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Senior Software Engineer

HiveMQ is a leading platform for IoT data streaming, enabling real-time data connectivity and management through MQTT.

HiveMQ

Employee count: 201-500

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HiveMQ empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of their data with the most trusted edge-to-cloud IoT data streaming platform. Built on MQTT’s publish/subscribe architecture for seamless and flexible integration across operational technology (OT) assets and information technology (IT) applications, HiveMQ ensures businesses can efficiently connect, stream, and govern their data in real-time.

With a focus on reliability, scalability, and security, HiveMQ helps organizations get their data AI-ready—enabling advanced analytics, predictive maintenance, and digital transformation. Leading brands like Audi, BMW, Liberty Global, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens, and Eli Lilly trust HiveMQ to modernize their operations, accelerate innovation, and create smarter, data-driven experiences.

The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Landshut, Germany, with offices across the globe.

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. We work with agile principles and believe ruthless automation and smart use of AI tools enables us to move fast while continuously meriting the trust that our customers place in us.

You will…

  • Architect, build, and maintain the HiveMQ platform software for massively-scalable global IoT deployments.
  • Create self-healing software systems with state-of-the-art tools.
  • Develop and implement concurrent, maintainable, and performant algorithms.
  • Build, maintain and refactor existing codebases, extend APIs, improve test coverage and address security vulnerabilities.
  • Work with profilers, benchmarking, and state analysis tools.
  • Leverage AI tools such as Claude Code, GH Copilot.
  • Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks.
  • Solve edge cases and find the common truths behind them.

You have…

  • Great interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively coordinate and work in a team.
  • 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.
  • A strong software engineering background (5+ years) and profound experience in architecting, developing and delivering modern and robust backend applications running in a JVM.
  • Experience using Git, different testing approaches, and CI/CD tools.
  • Ability to debug complex problems to find and implement solutions for the future.
  • Experience designing high-throughput data-intensive applications.
  • You have experience with different architectures, event-driven systems, and designing resilient inter-service communication. Technologies like NoSQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, ArgoCD are no strangers to you.
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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.

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HiveMQ is the proven enterprise standard designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data from devices across various industries under real-world stress. Built on the MQTT protocol, HiveMQ provides the most trusted IoT data streaming platform, enabling organizations to realize the full value of their data.

With a focus on reliability, scalability, and security, HiveMQ's platform allows businesses to seamlessly integrate operational technology (OT) devices with information technology (IT) systems for comprehensive visibility and interoperability. More than just a messaging broker, HiveMQ does not just facilitate the collection and distribution of data; it transforms this data into actionable insights that drive smarter decision-making and enhance operational efficiency.

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