Senior Software/AI Engineer

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>EggAI</strong> · Full-time · Remote (EU &amp; UK)</p><h3>The Role</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">A very strong senior software engineer with deep, hands-on experience building and operating production systems. We hire for engineering strength first: people who write good software, reason about failure, and own what they ship.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will work in a team of <strong>2 to 6 engineers on a client project</strong>. Clients come to us because we work at the forefront of AI in the enterprise; you help implement our AI strategy.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>AI experience is required.</strong> Much of our work involves LLM-powered and agentic systems, and while you may not be working directly on LLMs, you will be working on LLM based systems.</p><h3>What You'll Do</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and operate the production systems at the centre of the engagement, end to end — you own what you ship, including after it's reached production</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead architecture discussions for your part of the system, with the support of the wider team</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take ownership: pick up the ambiguous problem, chase down the answer, and say so when something is going wrong</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work directly with the client's engineers and with our project manager / product owner</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work in a "normal" team rhythm — daily standups, planning, retrospectives, code and design review</p></li></ul><h3>What We're Looking For</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>10+ years designing, building and maintaining production systems</strong> that real users depend on — clean testable code, sound API and data modelling, and the judgement to know which abstractions are worth it</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Production AI experience</strong>: You have built and operated GenAI systens in production with real users</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Has owned code in production</strong> — deployment, monitoring, on-call or equivalent — and can debug hard problems in live systems: concurrency, performance, data correctness</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Distributed systems fundamentals</strong>: services, queues, retries, idempotency, failure modes, and integrating third-party APIs that are not reliable</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Databases</strong>: schema design, query performance, migrations</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Operational rigour</strong>: meaningful automated testing, useful instrumentation, CI/CD and shipping incrementally</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Client-facing ability</strong>: has delivered against real business requirements and can hold a technical conversation with non-engineers</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Languages</strong>: Python (primary), TypeScript/JavaScript. Strong engineers coming from Go, Java, C#, Rust or similar who are willing to work in Python are in scope</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Infrastructure</strong>: cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerisation</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Desired qualities</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Depth — you can explain the systems you built and the trade-offs you chose</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Balances speed of iteration with production reliability</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Clear communicator, in writing as well as in conversation</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Learns new domains quickly and deliberately</p></li></ul><h3>Interview Process</h3><ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Introductory call - 30 minutes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Behavioural/Management interview - 60 minutes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Technical interview (choice of walking through own code, live coding, or take home exercise) - 60 minutes</p></li></ol><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.fr">Jobs in France</a> on Arbeitnow</a>