AI Software Engineer

Job Description

What Will You Do

Engineering & Delivery

• Design and implement backend systems and APIs that integrate LLMs vector databases and retrieval components

• Build deploy and maintain RAG pipelines and AI agents in production

• Write clean testable maintainable code following engineering best practices

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines testing and observability of AI systems

• Optimize AI components for performance reliability and correctness

Collaboration

• Translate requirements into working software alongside senior engineers product managers and domain experts

• Participate in Agile ceremonies sprint planning and code reviews

• Communicate technical progress risks and trade-offs clearly within the team

Qualifications Skills & Experience

Required

• Proven software engineering experience strong production-level Python is essential

• Experience building systems that integrate APIs databases and cloud services

• Hands-on experience with LLMs RAG architectures vector databases or generative AI applications

• RESTful API development experience

• Familiarity with CI/CD testing practices and software delivery

Nice to Have

• AWS or other cloud provider experience

• Containerization (Docker Kubernetes)

• Agile/Scrum background

• Familiarity with prompt engineering or AI evaluation frameworks

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related technical discipline

What We Offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern

• Pension and health (Canadian Medical) contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport card

• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone

• Parking in the garage showers refreshments massage chairs library music corner

• Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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