(Senior or Staff) Backend Engineer, AI tooling

Accountabilities

• Own the architecture, development, deployment, and long-term evolution of developer platform and AI tooling capabilities.


• Lead multi-quarter technical projects, breaking complex initiatives into clear milestones and delivering measurable improvements iteratively.


• Build and operate systems covering developer productivity, CI/CD, observability and engineering metrics, code quality automation, testing infrastructure, and AI-assisted development.


• Lead the adoption and effective use of AI-powered developer tools and capabilities across engineering teams.


• Define technical direction for your area, anticipating longer-term challenges and developing scalable solutions and engineering capabilities.


• Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap and technical strategy, providing technical recommendations, challenging requirements where appropriate, and identifying alternative approaches.


• Mentor engineers through design collaboration, code reviews, technical guidance, and strong engineering practices.


• Take ownership of the operational health of systems, using data and feedback to guide improvements, maintenance, iteration, and deprecation.


• Ensure integrations with third-party APIs, SaaS products, and external platforms are reliable, secure, maintainable, and provide a strong developer experience.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2–3+ years operating at Senior or Staff level.


• Strong hands-on experience building and operating developer platforms, developer tooling, CI/CD systems, observability or metrics infrastructure, code quality automation, testing infrastructure, or related engineering systems.


• Demonstrated experience delivering infrastructure or tooling that measurably improves developer velocity, productivity, quality, or reduces engineering complexity.


• Previous experience leading the adoption of AI-powered developer tools or capabilities across an engineering organization.


• Experience working within a high-performing engineering environment, such as a scale-up or established technology organization, with a strong understanding of how infrastructure decisions affect developer productivity and product quality.


• Experience integrating third-party services, APIs, SaaS tools, or external platforms into internal systems, with strong attention to reliability, security, maintainability, and user experience.


• Strong understanding of how platform and infrastructure investments enable broader product and commercial outcomes.


• Experience owning significant technical areas end to end, including architecture, implementation, operations, and continuous improvement.


• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions, work effectively with leadership, and mentor other engineers.


• High degree of autonomy, sound technical judgment, and the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs while knowing when to involve stakeholders or escalate decisions.

• Starting base salary of €130,000 / £130,000 / CHF 130,000, depending on location and applicable currency.


• Equity in the form of RSUs.


• Full-time employment; contractor arrangements are not available.


• Remote work options available in Romania, subject to applicable employment, compliance, and right-to-work requirements.


• 25 days of annual leave, plus applicable local public holidays.


• Employment typically managed through an international employment provider where required.


• Opportunity to work on AI-driven developer tooling with broad technical ownership and organizational impact.


• Collaboration with highly experienced engineering teams working at the forefront of AI-enabled software development.


• Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates already located in a UK/EU country who require support; relocation is not provided.

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