Software Engineer - Pirate & Architect

The role is a Software Engineer - Pirate & Architect. The company is looking for someone who can identify, board, and take over a merchant vessel in record time, and who leaves behind a ship where every knot is flawless. AI now handles much of the design, prototyping, and coding. What matters is building fast without leaving chaos behind. The main day-to-day responsibilities include building and maintaining AI agentic workflows, data processing pipelines, and shipping features end to end. This involves working with React, Python, and AWS infrastructure. The role also includes making quality measurable through evaluation sets, tracing, and budgets for latency and cost. Additionally, the engineer will integrate with customers' systems, handling real business data from various enterprise landscapes. The must-have requirements include multiple years of experience as a software engineer, ideally with ownership of architecture decisions. Practical, current experience with AI-assisted development is essential. Understanding of cloud-native architecture, ideally on AWS, is required. The role demands end-to-end reach, being comfortable in the frontend, backend, and infrastructure. The ability to work at high speed while maintaining high structural discipline is crucial. Strong communication skills to explain and defend architecture decisions are also necessary. Nice-to-have skills include a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment with room to grow. The team values a high level of autonomy and real impact from day one. The company offers the opportunity to shape and own the technical architecture as it scales. What the role asks for: - Multiple years of experience as a software engineer, ideally with ownership of architecture decisions - Practical, current experience with AI-assisted development - Understanding of cloud-native architecture, ideally on AWS - End-to-end reach, ideally you are at home in the frontend, the backend and the infrastructure, and can take a feature all the way to production without handing it over at every boundary - High speed AND high structural discipline - Strong communication skills to explain and defend architecture decisions