Web Application Software Engineer (all genders)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Karlsruhe (HQ) / Gothenburg / remote in Germany & Sweden

The role
You will be part of an ambitious and highly motivated team that is building and delivering a market-leading annotation product (2D & 3D) to our customers.

As a Web / Frontend Software Engineer, you will mainly focus on building modern web applications with an outstanding user experience. You are excited to bring our 3D-pointcloud-visualization and annotation tool to the next level and don't hesitate to work in surrounding areas (e.g. backend services). As a team, we build, ship, and operate our product to make AI accessible for real-world applications.
Your tasks
  • You build reliable web applications within an experienced team for the autonomous transport domain
  • You create a positive user experience that is highly optimized for productivity
  • You write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code and participate in code reviews
  • You set up integration pipelines, support writing backend services, and automate our business processes
  • You help integrate machine learning models into a product that is used by thousands of users
  • You contribute to our DevOps efforts to build, test, and release software faster and more reliable
What will you need to be successful?
  • You have strong software engineering skills or want to build those
  • You have a university degree in Computer Science (or similar) or a track record of successfully completing projects
  • You have a passion for building web applications and writing great code for them
  • You are familiar with agile software development sprints
  • You have good English communication skills, both written and verbal
  • You have experience in web-based 2D/3D rendering, ideally with WebGL, CanvasAPI and THREE.js
  •  A plus is experience in programming shaders (GLSL)
What we offer
  • A crucial role in a dynamic and fast-growing team
  • A work environment that fosters trust, respect, and feedback
  • An onboarding buddy to integrate you smoothly into our team
  • Productivity and improvement time between the development sprints
  • An engineering manager helping you with your personal goals, technical progress in general, and your software engineering skills 
  • Free snacks, drinks, and the option to join activities like hiking, inline-skating, climbing, or board game nights
  • Competitive salary, flexible working hours, work from home
Overview of our tech stack

Frontend: TypeScript, Vue.js, Vuex, Pinia, Vite, Jest, WebGL

Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud

Contact person
Katrin Maar
HR Business Partner   
katrin.maar@understand.ai
+4917660199870
About us

Understand.ai was founded in 2017 with the vision in mind to make AI accessible to everyone. To achieve this goal, we’re solving the data problem of AI. The tooling and services provided by understand.ai enable our customers to get the right data, at the right quality and right quantity, to make production-grade AI products a reality. Join us to become part of this journey!

Headquartered in Karlsruhe, our team has grown to more than 80 employees since 2017 and is part of the dSPACE Group since 2019. dSPACE is a market innovator and leader in providing solutions and systems for embedded controller software development in the Automotive, Aerospace, and Manufacturing industries. Founded in Germany in 1988, dSPACE employs over 2200 people worldwide, who are committed to making the embedded controls software development process more efficient through innovative tools and services.


Due to our success in growing customer numbers and projects, we need to scale our structure and team sizes in order to continue providing excellent service. Our goal is to make our customers happy and our employees happy. We offer a variety of benefits, but more importantly, we offer an interesting & meaningful work environment and responsibilities, on which you can work with a great level of autonomy. 


We can’t wait to see what kind of future you choose to build at UAI - so click on the “apply for this position” button and together create the gold standard for ground truth data for autonomous transportation!

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