Senior AI Engineer (All genders)

We are looking for a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to shape and scale AI-powered engineering capabilities across shopping area of zooplus. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership driving the adoption of AI-enabled development practices and agentic systems across business-critical platforms.

You will help define how AI is embedded into engineering workflows and production systems ensuring scalable secure and measurable impact across teams.

What Youll Do

• Lead architecture and delivery of AI and agentic platforms across engineering and commerce systems
• Define production-ready patterns for agentic systems including planning memory recovery and safety mechanisms
• Drive AI-powered SDLC initiatives across coding testing review and release intelligence
• Build reusable MCP-based capability layers for scalable AI adoption across teams
• Own context engineering practices including grounding retrieval memory and evaluation
• Establish observability governance and guardrails for LLM integrations
• Collaborate across engineering product platform security and data teams
• Act as technical lead for complex initiatives and critical design decisions

Qualifications :

What You Bring

• 5 years of software engineering experience in distributed systems
• Strong experience with microservices and event-driven architectures
• Tech-agnostic mindset with strong programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Java Python JavaScript or Kotlin or broad working knowledge across multiple of these languages.
• Production experience with LLM integrations (Azure OpenAI OpenAI Bedrock)
• Strong understanding of RAG systems embeddings retrieval and vector databases
• Experience with Docker Kubernetes Terraform and CI/CD pipelines
• Proven technical leadership across teams

Nice to Have

• Experience with LangChain LlamaIndex AutoGen CrewAI or Semantic Kernel
• Exposure to experimentation and feature flag platforms
• Strong understanding of AI security privacy and cost optimisation
• Experience in retail commerce or high-scale consumer platforms

Why This Role Matters

This role will help shape how zooplus moves AI from experimentation into reliable production systems that improve engineering velocity and business outcomes.

Additional Information :

Headquartered in Munich with offices across Madrid Krakow Wroclaw London and Vienna we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so youll be at the heart of an incredible multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done which means youll benefit from hybrid working spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. Theres an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.

Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path excellent training and support wellbeing offers subsidised transport or bike leasing plus 20% discount across all our products and youll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts.

At zooplus we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.

#LI-Hybrid

28 Annual Vacation Days
Private Medical Health Insurance
Hybrid working model (up to 40%Home Office per month)

zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time