Job Description
Company Description
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.
At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win.
Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Python Engineer to join our Chat group that builds innovative, data-driven recruiting products powered by next-generation agentic AI systems. You’ll be working closely with our team of AI/ML engineers to scale up applications powered by NLP, Machine Learning and AI agents. You’ll be responsible for implementing and maintaining AI agentic systems that connect people to jobs at scale. Together with our dedicated platform team, you ensure a seamless integration of new services into the existing infrastructure, at enterprise-level service reliability and security.
We partner and collaborate with R&D leaders, product managers, designers, and engineers to design and develop intelligent AI agent-powered solutions that transform how companies identify, engage and hire the best talent. Our products are used by thousands of customers and affect the experience of millions of job candidates.
As a key member of our team, you’ll have a unique opportunity to help us achieve our goals using cutting-edge technology.
Important: the position is available only under a standard contract of employment with 80% of tax deductible cost.
- 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
- And the most important - bring your own product ideas to life
You will work with passionate people (our Engineering teams are located in Berlin and Krakow) so that, together, we can reach one of the most important goals of today - to connect people to jobs at scale.
Qualifications
- 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, because our goal is to automate it all
- Familiarity with Amazon AWS, containerization software (Docker/Kubernetes), and monitoring/analysis tools (Kibana/Grafana/Prometheus)
- 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
Additional Information
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
