Senior Software Engineer – Backend (AI)

Requirements

  • Strong experience as a backend engineer in production environments
  • Solid skills in Kotlin, Java, or a similar JVM language, and comfort picking up a new stack
  • Experience designing and scaling APIs and distributed systems where reliability and correctness matter
  • Comfort building from scratch rather than extending established platforms and internal tooling
  • A strong sense of ownership, and the ability to move things forward without a lot of scaffolding around you
  • Clear communication, particularly across engineering disciplines

Nice to Have

  • Experience working alongside machine learning or data engineering teams
  • Exposure to LLM-based systems, RAG, or agent architectures
  • Experience with AWS, and with Bedrock or a comparable model platform
  • Interest in AI-assisted development workflows

What You'll Be Doing

  • Design and build the backend services and APIs that power Personio's AI Assistant and agent experiences
  • Build out the underlying platform that upcoming agentic products across Personio will be built on
  • Own features end to end, from problem definition through to production
  • Work directly with machine learning engineers on the systems around retrieval, prompting, and model interaction
  • Make architectural decisions in a young, fast-moving domain where the patterns are still being set
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, and the teams building AI features into their own product areas

Perks and Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • 28 days holiday, increasing with tenure
  • Hybrid working model (2 days per week in the office)
  • 20 Flex Days to work from anywhere in Europe
  • A strong engineering culture focused on ownership and impact
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