Aiir Innovations
Backend Engineer
Aiir InnovationsNetherlands18 hours ago
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We are Aiir, our cutting-edge AI inspection & reporting platform is used in the aviation industry to enhance jet engine inspections worldwide. We’re dedicated to revolutionizing how inspections are conducted, and we’re looking for a talented Mid-level Backend Engineer to join our team.

About Your Role

As a Mid-level Backend Engineer at Aiir, you'll be instrumental in developing, enhancing, and maintaining our robust AI-assisted jet engine inspection platform. Based in Amsterdam but with a remote-first approach, you'll have the flexibility to work from almost anywhere while collaborating with our small, dynamic team. Your primary focus will be on building scalable, reliable, and secure backend systems and APIs that power our cutting-edge solution. Together with the team, you’ll work towards delivering an unparalleled jet engine inspection solution for aviation professionals globally.

The Job

Join our Engineering team to collaborate closely with the Product and AI teams, to bring about the best AI-assisted jet engine inspection platform for airlines, leasing companies, and borescope inspectors across the world and set the industry standard.

In this role, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining backend features, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and security. You'll work hands-on with our core backend technologies, primarily Python, MongoDB, and FastAPI, deployed within Azure Cloud. Familiarity with Redis will also be beneficial as you contribute to our product's evolution. You will be a key contributor to our core product development.

What You Bring to the Team

  • You, be yourself, we value the diversity you bring to the team.
  • You have strong proficiency in designing, developing, and deploying scalable, reliable, and secure backend services.
  • You have 3-5 years of experience with Python. Experience with MongoDB, FastAPI and Azure Cloud is essential, and familiarity with Redis is a nice-to-have.
  • You are independent, proactive, eager to learn, and committed to continuously expanding your knowledge within software development.
  • You have strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive mindset to identify and address challenges to provide our customers with an outstanding experience.
  • You are a team player who actively contributes ideas, gives and receives feedback regularly, and communicates early about issues, uncertainties, risks, and opportunities.
  • You are familiar with an Agile/Kanban environment and embody an agile mindset and lean principles.
  • You have a detail-oriented approach to ensure high-quality code, maintainable architectures, and adherence to coding standards.
  • You are familiar with best practices and proactively consider architecture, performance, security, and developer experience in your code (KISS principle). You can explain and reason about your backend design and code choices.
  • You have a solid understanding of backend performance optimization techniques and tools for improving web API speed and responsiveness.
  • You contribute to quality assurance, including best practice guidelines, CI/CD, monitoring, and demonstrate proper use of relevant tooling and libraries.
  • You have effective time management and organizational skills to meet project deadlines.


What We Offer

  • Opportunity to work with state-of-the-art AI products that solve real-world customer problems.
  • Opportunity to help shape the tech stack and bring our backend systems to the next level.
  • An international and involved global customer base.
  • Working in an international environment, with an energetic and enthusiastic team that is capable, takes ownership and is hungry for growth and knowledge.
  • Working with us gives you the opportunity to shape and fine-tune the technologies and to make an impact on the success of the company.


What You’ll Gain

At Aiir you choose the location you work from, that can be from home or at our Amsterdam office (we already have payroll in DE, NL and ES). To support this we work in a customized virtual office, and provide high-end company laptops and office equipment when needed.

  • 32-40 hours per week.
  • Salary of €45.000 to €55.000 based on experience.
  • 6-month / 1-year contract
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Remote first, work from home ideally within 2 time zones from Amsterdam.
  • 26 days of paid holiday leave per year.
  • Budget for traveling to our Amsterdam office.
  • Quarterly company-wide and team events.
  • Regular personal coaching sessions.
  • Education & training budget.
  • Home office budget.
  • Laptop of your choice.


To Apply: Interested? Please send your English CV as PDF. Due to the high volume of applications, we can only respond to candidates who closely match our requirements. We look forward to hearing from you! (No agencies, please.)

About Aiir

At Aiir we are building the leading inspection & assistive reporting solution for all Aviation Engine Inspections. We’re on a mission to become the central platform for all engine inspection needs. Aiir was founded in 2016 in Amsterdam and is backed by top VCs that include: HearstLab (US), Borski fund (NL), SHIFT Invest (NL). The HQ is based in Amsterdam, but operates distributed across Europe with a remote working policy. Today we offer an AI-powered solution that serves as a second pair of eyes to the global aviation industry to improve the quality of jet engine inspections, and speed up report creation by up to 80%. Our customers include renowned parties such as KLM, MTU Leasing Services and many more, and is quickly becoming the standard in the aviation market. With our rapidly growing traction, we are on a mission to become the global industry standard. Join us and help us reach new heights!

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