Software Engineer
Cota Robotics
Software Engineer
Cota Robotics
RaaS robotic retail automation platform
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.
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.
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
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).
Build software that runs real robots in real stores
Shape how customers and operators experience Cota
Meaningful equity and real ownership early
RaaS robotic retail automation platform
Cota Robotics delivers a turnkey retail automation solution via a Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, charging hourly for managed automation rather than selling hardware. Its system includes an operational layer with teleoperation in a control room, fleet logistics, and an AI platform trained on real-world data; when a robot cannot complete a task autonomously, a human teleoperator intervenes to finish it. The hardware-agnostic approach lets Cota integrate the most cost-effective robots as technology evolves, avoiding major store infrastructure changes. The goal is to help retailers increase capacity outside staffed hours, improve efficiency, and keep real-time inventory records, starting with overnight shelf replenishment and expanding into broader retail logistics with pilots in Finland.
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