Software Engineer - Pirate & Architect

The role of a Software Engineer - Pirate & Architect at this company involves a unique blend of rapid development and meticulous architectural design. The company focuses on leveraging AI for design, prototyping, and coding, aiming to build efficient and well-structured software solutions. The main day-to-day responsibilities include designing and prototyping with AI tools, ensuring rapid development without compromising on quality. This involves creating and maintaining AI agentic workflows, data processing pipelines, and shipping features end-to-end. The role also includes integrating with customer systems and ensuring the quality of the software through measurable standards. To excel in this role, candidates must have multiple years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong background in architecture decisions. Practical, current experience with AI-assisted development is essential. A deep understanding of cloud-native architecture, ideally on AWS, is required. The ability to work across the frontend, backend, and infrastructure is crucial, as is the capacity to maintain high speed and structural discipline. Nice-to-have skills include a broad foundation across databases, data structures, storage, cloud functions, and infrastructure as code. The role offers a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment with high autonomy and real impact from day one. The team values strong communication skills to explain and defend architecture decisions, even to AI agents. What the role asks for: - Several years of experience as a software developer, ideally with responsibility for architecture decisions - Practical, current experience with AI-supported development - Understanding of cloud-native architecture, ideally on AWS - End-to-End reach, ideally at home in the frontend, backend and the infrastructure - Strong communication skills to explain and defend architecture decisions