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, working end-to-end on the platform that connects research across 18,000+ funding programmes, AI-supported analysis and application drafting, expert review and ongoing grant management.

Key responsibilities

• Build and ship end-to-end product features, including the user interface, working closely with the grant team rather than predefined tickets
• Contribute to reducing the time from starting a project to a finished, submitted application through product improvements, automation and better workflows
• Advance the platform's AI capabilities through prompt engineering, context management, cost control and multi-provider AI setups, working with AWS Bedrock, Anthropic and OpenAI
• Build and operate AI pipelines in production, develop the AI evaluation practice and use AI-native tools such as Claude Code or Cursor
• Operate, monitor and debug the live production environment using Sentry, CloudWatch and Postgres performance monitoring, and contribute to AWS infrastructure (ECS, RDS)
• Shape the technical architecture, code quality, engineering standards and technical roadmap, and help set up how the engineering team works

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 identify problems and close the loop without hand-holding
• Nice to have: German at B1 level or above, and experience with AI agents and tool-calling workflows in production

Required skills

• TypeScript and Node.js
• Postgres, including JSONB, query performance and migrations
• Next.js 15 / React Query, Express / BullMQ, Terraform
• Hands-on experience building and operating AI pipelines in production, with LLMs and prompt engineering

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