Senior Software Engineer, Python

SmartRecruiters Inc. delivers an AI-powered hiring platform built for global scale, automating and optimizing the entire talent acquisition process. The company joined SAP in 2025 to accelerate the reinvention of hiring by combining AI innovation with SAP's ecosystem. The R&D structure is based on empowered product teams responsible for business outcomes and autonomy in problem-solving.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in back-end development using Python microservices
• Experience working with modern RESTful APIs
• Experience designing persistence layers using Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Strong understanding of distributed software systems design, operation, and debugging
• Strong understanding of test automation techniques
• Familiarity with Amazon AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with monitoring and analysis tools such as Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus (nice to have)
• Experience within Data Engineering and data processing pipelines (nice to have)
• Experience in building AI agents (design for non-deterministic systems, monitoring AI quality) (nice to have)
• Very good level of English (B2/C1)

• 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
• Connect to persistence layers such as Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Build and document developer-friendly RESTful APIs
• Design and build AI agents capable of handling high traffic load and concurrency
• Implement and maintain AI agentic systems that connect people to jobs at scale
• Ensure seamless integration of new services into existing infrastructure with enterprise-level reliability and security
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, R&D leaders, product managers, designers, and engineers to develop AI agent-powered recruiting solutions

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