Senior Software Engineer, Python

SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in back-end development using Python microservices, working with modern RESTful APIs, and designing a persistence layer (e.g. Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL)
• Strong understanding of distributed software systems; how to design, operate and debug them
• Experience within Data Engineering, data processing pipelines (nice to have)
• Strong understanding of test automation techniques
• Familiarity with Amazon AWS, containerization software (Docker/Kubernetes), and monitoring/analysis tools (Kibana/Grafana/Prometheus)
• Extensive experience in building AI powered products (LLM agents)

Nice to have:

• Experience in building AI agents (design for non-deterministic systems, monitoring AI quality, etc.)
• Very good level of English (both verbal and written), B2/C1 level
• Sharing of SmartRecruiters's values and willingness to make an impact in the HRTech world

• Participate in the full life-cycle of the product (including ideation, problem discovery, prototyping, design, implementation, and measuring adoption)
• Design and develop services with Python on top of Kubernetes/AWS infrastructure as well as connect to our persistence layer (Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL)
• Build and document developer-friendly RESTful APIs
• Design and build AI agents that can handle high traffic load and concurrency
• Bring your own product ideas to life

Important: the position is available only under a standard contract of employment with 80% of tax deductible cost.

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics