[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer @Synera GmbH

Role Description

Synera ships today as a desktop app. Your job is to change that — lift the backend into containers, build the on-prem server product from its first commit, and make the whole platform a breeze to operate. If you've ever looked at a monolith and thought "I know how to take this apart," this is the role. 🚀

Synera is the leading AI Agent Platform for Engineering — companies like BMW, Airbus, NASA, and Hyundai use it to build autonomous digital engineers that execute real work inside CAD, CAE, and PLM tools. Today the product runs as a Windows desktop application. We're building a server-hosted product customers can deploy on their own infrastructure, and you'll join the team that owns the transition end to end.

• Be the first engineer on our new Platform team.
• Extract the .NET backend from its desktop dependencies.
• Containerize it with Docker.
• Stand up the CI/CD, install, upgrade, and licensing flows for on-prem deployment.
• Take over auth tasks.
• Join efforts to make the platform AI-native: building MCP servers, agent skills, and documentation for AI agents.
• Contribute to growing a small, senior team around the platform.
• Report to Ben and work closely with Sven and the broader engineering org.

👉 What a week at Synera could look like:

• Monday: Daily standup with the Chimeras team, then a deep focus block untangling the backend from its desktop dependencies.
• Tuesday: Heads-down getting a service running headless inside a multi-stage Docker image.
• Wednesday: Work on the CI/CD pipeline so images build, test, and publish on their own.
• Thursday: Sprint review and planning; demo the latest slice of the migration.
• Friday: Every other Friday afternoon is yours for upskilling.

⚡ In 6 months:

• The backend runs headless in Docker across dev, test, and staging.
• A first on-prem deployment is live in an internal or friendly-customer environment.
• CI/CD builds, tests, and publishes images without anyone babysitting it.
• The platform's first MCP server or agent skill is in use.

⚡ In 12 months:

• Customers install, upgrade, and roll back the on-prem server themselves.
• The Platform team has grown to two or three engineers.
• MCPs and agent skills cover the main deploy and operations workflows.
• Observability is live in production.
• First steps are made towards a fully cloud-native Infrastructure setup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building backend software in C#/.NET.
• Track record of decoupling backend logic from a UI or desktop layer.
• Experience containerizing production applications with Docker.
• Built and owned CI/CD pipelines that teams rely on.
• Packaged software for environments the vendor doesn't control.
• Experience working AI-native and using AI tooling in daily engineering.
• Fluent in English at professional working proficiency.

Requirements

• Resonate with Synera's Core Values.
• Work autonomously and drive work to a finished, deployed state.

Benefits

• Flexible working: you decide when & where to work.
• Flexible public holidays: swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
• Home office setup support + access to our office in Bremen.
• Personal development budget of €2,000.
• No vacation day counting; trust in team members to decide what's best.
• JobRad support for cycling enthusiasts.
• Company fitness with Wellpass and mental health platform nilo.
• Regular team events and spontaneous afterworks.