Lead Backend Engineer / Architect – AI-Driven SaaS Product – up to EUR 95K – Utrecht / Hybrid

My client is a start-up that will soon start building an AI-driven SaaS product. The product provides knowledge workers a high degree of automation consequently these teams have much more time for human interaction. This leads to much more value creation within the organizations. Many repetitive and manual actions are automated by this AI-driven SaaS product. But this is only the beginning of the many valuable features that will be built. A more groundbreaking example is the ability to filter conflicting statements in huge amounts of documents.

The enormous attention for AI (ChatGPT) has paid off for my client. Of course, my client also integrates the possibilities of ChatGPT into their products. But my client was already working on their vision before the AI hype (blue print was drawn back in 2018). This resulted in a very successful scale-up, and this new start-up is a spin off.

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will lead and contribute hands on to a team of 3 engineers. You will lead the technical realization of this new to build AI SaaS product. The initial founding team will consist of a Data Scientist, Full stack Developer, Product Owner, CEO and thus the Lead Engineer. The team will continue to grow in the upcoming years.

You bring:

• An enthusiastic personality, you are good with people and like to help! And you thrive well in a transparent and honest company culture;
• An above-average interest in software architecture & scalability;
• Interest in absorbing AI & ML knowledge;
• Demonstrable seniority with Python and FastAPI;
• Knowledge and experience with more tooling that you like to contribute and introduce to my client.

Some of the benefits that my client has to offer:

• Working with very ambitious and driven people in a great start-up environment.
• Many growth opportunities: with rapid growth, new functions appear. Deliver, show energy and challenge assumptions, and you will quickly get new challenges and responsibilities.
• Steep learning curve: you can experience a challenging and educational career, faster than you thought possible.
• Work from home when you want, but there is a policy of working 2 days in the office, so that the team can learn together and collaborate on challenging projects.
• Gross annual salary up to 95k and secondary package, including unlimited days off.

Interested!? Contact me via [email protected]