Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

About the role

The Global Talent Co. is recruiting a highly autonomous Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join a company building the digital infrastructure for grant funding. As one of its first engineering hires, you will own technical decisions, engineering standards, architecture and the product itself, taking problems from discovery with the grant team through to production.

Key responsibilities

• Build and ship end-to-end product features, including the user interface, working closely with the grant team
• Contribute to AI pipelines, including prompt engineering, context management, cost control and multi-provider setups with AWS Bedrock, Anthropic and OpenAI
• Develop and own the AI evaluation practice, including prompt quality, model selection and regression detection
• Use AI-native tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, and work with AI agents and tool-calling workflows
• Operate, monitor and debug production systems using Sentry, CloudWatch and Postgres performance monitoring
• Contribute to AWS infrastructure (ECS, RDS) and maintain production reliability
• Shape technical architecture, code quality, engineering standards and the technical roadmap

Required profile

• Several years of professional experience with TypeScript and Node.js
• Strong debugging skills in live production systems and a usability-first mindset
• High level of autonomy and ownership, able to shape solutions in an environment where not everything is fully defined
• Nice to have: German at B1 level or above, and experience with AI agents and tool-calling workflows

Required skills

• TypeScript and Node.js
• Postgres, including JSONB, query performance and migrations
• Next.js 15 / React Query, Express, BullMQ
• AWS (ECS, RDS) and Terraform
• Hands-on experience building and operating AI pipelines in production

What we offer

• Fully remote work is possible
• Competitive compensation and a €2,000 annual professional development budget
• Ownership as one of the first engineering hires, with short decision paths and direct access to leadership
• Access to exclusive funding databases and modern tools, team events and optional workations