Senior full-stack engineer

Job Description

The Position

Our Team is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer. Our team supports the Company's business areas – research and development, manufacturing, supply chain, commercial and animal monitoring – through data science and AI delivery. This role allows you to work on impactful AI products and collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists, while building a community that learns, challenges, and inspires each other. Our team is shaping the Data Science and AI strategy, serves as a DS and AI community facilitator, and helps non-technical colleagues to mature their understanding of DS and AI.

What will you do?

• Software development on backend and frontend (Python, SQL, REST, JavaScript, TypeScript / + React framework).
• Supervise and participate in writing efficient and maintainable code following best practices in software engineering.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists, and AI engineers to understand requirements and deliver AI-driven solutions.
• Work with DevSecOps tools for deploying and versioning code.
• Deploy solutions on the cloud with CI/CD integration.
• Deliver enterprise AI projects, products, and platforms with a focus on scalability and reusability.
• Work on technical pilots and feasibility studies of new opportunities to create value and transitioning successful pilots to scalable production implementations.
• Develop integrations with other applications and services.
• Develop unit tests of the application for both positive and negative cases.
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in software engineering technologies.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies with the team to execute on prioritized projects and features.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists, and software engineers, to understand requirements and deliver AI-driven solutions.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience Required

• Bachelors or Masters in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Computer Science is highly preferred, but qualifications in other quantitative disciplines are appreciated as well
• 4+ years hands-on coding and software design experience building robust and scalable software using Python, SQL, REST, JavaScript, TypeScript / + React framework
• Experience in building data intensive applications in a modern technology stack: Cloud services (AWS, Azure), data pipelines, SQL/No-SQL databases, terraform. (graph databases is a plus)
• AWS expertise with a proven track record of designing, deploying, and managing cloud-native applications using services such as Lambda, EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/Terraform, and IAM
• AWS expertise with a proven track record of designing, deploying, and managing cloud-native applications using approved serverless services including: Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SNS/SQS Experience in designing, architecting, and maintaining applications
• Experience building and consuming web-based APIs
• Experience with CI/CD environments such as GitHub Actions and test-driven development leveraging a Version Control system
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills for working with cross-functional teams
• Experienced with developing unit testing and different testing strategies such as performance testing
• Understanding of System Integration patterns

Nice to have

• Experience working in an Agile Methodology
• Familiar in fields related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science
• Knowledge of Generative AI solutions and applications
• Experience working with AWS Cloud
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Experience in building, deploying, and managing containers

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment 
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally 
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases) 
• Pension and health insurance contributions 
• Internal reward system plus referral programme 
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution 
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card 
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone 
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner 
• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more 

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Required Skills:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Angular, Azure Pipelines, Business Value Creation, Collaborative Communications, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Pipelines, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Generative AI, JavaScript, , Product Lifecycle, , Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing, Testing Methodology, TypeScript, Unit Testing

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

11/24/2025

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