Senior Software Engineer (.NET)

At AWL, you work at the intersection of IT and the physical world. Your code literally brings machines and robots to life across the globe. Ready to make an impact beyond the screen?

As a Senior Software Engineer (.NET), you will work in the R&D department on new projects for our business units in the intralogistics and food industries. You develop advanced automated production lines such as palletising, picking, welding and vision inspection, where mechanics, electronics and software come together. At the same time, you build modern, greenfield .NET platforms that control, monitor and enhance these systems with intelligence.

What do we expect?

• A Masters degree and strong experience with .NET / C# and modern software development;
• Experience with software architecture, distributed systems and modern development practices (testing, observability, performance);
• Experience with AI-assisted development (such as Cursor or similar) is a strong plus;
• Affinity with event-driven systems and scalable platforms;
• Interest in or affinity with machine building and robotics. Experience is not required, as you will work together with domain experts.

What do we offer?

• Pleasant and dynamic working environment within a collaborative and ambitious team with a high degree of autonomy;
• Challenging and innovative work environment where you can develop yourself and make a directly visible impact: your software controls physical systems worldwide;
• A comprehensive secondary benefits package (in line with the Metalektro collective labour agreement), including 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days;
• Plenty of opportunities for personal development, including access to our AWL Academy with over 50 training programmes and participation in our vitality programme “Boost Your Life”.

What will you do?

In this role, you combine:

• High-end software engineering (architecture and platform development);
• Direct impact in the physical world (robots controlled by your code).

You design and deliver scalable, robust software platforms for machines and robot cells. You work with modern technologies such as event-driven architectures, containerised services, configurable data flows and AI integrations (e.g. vision and path planning). Together with Software Engineers and multidisciplinary teams within AWL, you ensure that systems not only operate locally but can also be monitored, maintained and updated remotely.

In summary, you are responsible for:

• Designing and developing greenfield .NET platforms;
• Building software for complex machines and robotic cells;
• Setting up event-driven and distributed architectures;
• Integrating monitoring, diagnostics and update capabilities;
• Working with modern .NET technologies (AOT, async patterns, analyzers);
• Applying AI-assisted development;
• Collaborating in an iterative development process.

This will be your day

• 8:00 You start your day by reviewing the scrum board to check progress and ongoing tasks. Right after that you have a daily stand-up with the team to discuss progress and align on priorities.
• 10:00 You've got time blocked to design a new software architecture. You consider data flows and how robots within one of the projects can be optimally controlled.
• 13:00 After a great lunch with your team in the company restaurant or a walk with a colleague, you join a meeting with other architects about integrating a new PLC and a different approach to robot control.
• 15:00 Meeting with a supplier to align on software integration within an ongoing project, ensuring everything connects seamlessly from a technical perspective. Back at your desk an issue arises within a project. You dive in, analyse the problem and work towards a suitable solution.
• 16:30 A varied and productive day comes to an end. You close your laptop and head home feeling accomplished.

Your tasks

• 50% Designing new software architectures
• 20% Consulting with suppliers on API integrations
• 20% Coaching engineers during implementation of your designs
• 10% Scrum proces meetings