Software Engineer, Full-Stack

Software Engineer, Full-Stack LocationAmsterdamEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentSoftware EngineeringMonumental is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction software-defined and autonomous - a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings go up in a single day, with minimal labour.We're a growing team of engineers, operators and technicians from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and Google DeepMind. It's still the early days of building the company, and this is a chance to make an outsized impact on a problem that matters. From day one, you’ll be working with an experienced founding team, backed by a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and Plural.Monumental is based in the city centre of Amsterdam, in a beautiful facility with an fully equipped workshop and robot testing floor. We build the whole stack in-house - hardware and software, we're explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company - you can't build robots or walls from home, so we're onsite five days a week. Read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn about our vision and company. You might enjoy Based in Europe’s film on how we’re fixing Europe’s housing shortage, or this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office looks like.About the roleWe're looking for a software engineer who wants to build full-stack software that can touch the physical world, not another SaaS product. You’ll develop and deploy software that controls fleets of autonomous construction robots. Full stack at Monumental is really full stack, covering everything from microcontroller firmware up to the web-based UI that operators use to control the robots. We’ve built CAD tools for designing masonry structures, path planning and motion control, telemetry and inspection tools, and distributed data storage and sync.The technical challenges we're solving combine hardware, software, and infrastructure at scale - while maintaining high availability on construction sites. Atrium, our operating system for construction, is built with TypeScript and Rust. Much of our Rust code is compiled to WebAssembly, allowing our UI to interface directly with the same control code that we deploy to our robots. This gives us a shared stack between real-world deployments and simulated runs in the front-end. You can read about how we control robots with TypeScript in this post by our CTO, Sebastiaan.As we're deploying more robots and software, we're always running into new challenges. The problems are often not straightforward: poor connectivity on a construction site because of interference, a memory leak that only becomes an issue after hours of runtime, a robot behaving differently than the simulation. This means a lot of creative problem solving is involved. One of our engineers even traced down a problem to a memory leak in Chrome, which got fixed soon after he submitted a bug report.To help us build, improve, and maintain our platform, we're looking for a strong generalist software engineer. You'll get a lot of autonomy and the chance to build software that builds actual robots and houses. You’ll also get the chance to collaborate with other engineering disciplines (e.g. electrical, mechanical) to support new robot features or debug issues. For more on how we think about the role, read Bouke’s post on his experience joining Monumental as a software engineer.What you'll doBuilding telemetry that lets us see what every robot on site is doing in real time - so when something goes wrong, you know whyDesigning the core architecture of our platform, and choosing the right abstractions to map the messy world of construction into elegant softwarePrototyping components that talk to our robot's microcontrollers and distributed subsystems - shipping to production, onto a robot laying bricks within hours of writing the codeDebugging complex issues that cut across the stack: e.g. bugs in...