Software Engineer

Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like stocking shelves, inbounding goods and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.
About the role

You'll build the software that connects robotics with operations: the tools our operators use to run robots, the systems the ops team relies on, and what our customers see. You'll own our external-facing software, so what you build is what retailers experience of Cota. One week it's an operator interface, the next a backend service or a customer integration. We work hard and move fast.
What you'll do

• Own our external-facing software: the products and integrations our customers use
• Build the tools our operators and ops team use every day to run robots in stores
• Make the technical calls on architecture, tooling and reliability
• Own problems end to end, from first conversation to running in production

What we're looking for

• Several years of professional experience shipping production software, with a track record of owning systems end to end
• High agency and a strong will to learn: you see what needs doing and pick up new tech fast
• Comfortable across frontend, backend, data and infrastructure, and excited by breadth
• At home in a fast-moving environment where we work hard
• Fluent in English
• You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately, we're not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage

How to apply: Tell us about something you built and shipped, and link to it (repo, product, demo, or project).
Why join

• Build software that runs real robots in real stores
• Shape how customers and operators experience Cota
• Meaningful equity and real ownership early