Staff Software Engineer - Alwin

DataSnipperAmsterdamHybridFull-time1 day ago

DataSnipper is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Amsterdam to build Alwin, an Agentic Automation Platform for audit and finance. The role is hands-on, requiring 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong production-grade Python and deep experience building agentic or LLM systems in production. You will lead technical decisions, mentor senior engineers, and raise the quality bar across teams.

What you'll do

Write production code every week on the most complex and critical parts of Alwin
Build proofs of concept for new agent capabilities, and take the ones that work all the way to production
Champion experimentation and R&D: try emerging models and techniques, solve hard problems creatively, and turn promising ideas into reliable features
Shape the Alwin platform and adjacent systems by building them: the core abstractions, the reference implementations, the patterns other teams reuse
Contribute directly to the agent harness at the core of Alwin: the orchestration, tools, context and evaluation loops every agent runs on
Anticipate where the platform needs to be in 12–18 months, and make design decisions now that minimize the cost of future change
Build agents that are reliable in a regulated domain: grounding, evaluation before release, human-in-the-loop, traceability of every action
Instrument what you ship, use traces and quality metrics to find where agents fail, and fix the cause, not just the symptom
Jump into the hardest incidents across teams, and turn them into lasting fixes
Make the trade-offs between model cost, latency and accuracy explicit, and measure them in production
Lead technical decisions: drive the key design calls across teams, lay out the trade-offs openly, get to a decision quickly, and then prove it out in code
Set the standard for code quality, testing and security through your own code and reviews, aligned with OWASP GenAI
Drive AI-assisted engineering: try new tools first, show what works, and help teams adopt it
Shape how we build Alwin: the development process, tooling and feedback loops that let teams go from idea to tested, production-ready agent fast
Mentor senior engineers and grow future staff engineers by pairing, reviewing and building alongside them
Work with Product to spot opportunities and differentiators against the competition, and shape the roadmap with what you have proven is possible

What you need

Must-have

PythonAgentic systemsLLM systemsControl loopsTool callingContext engineeringEvaluationDistributed systems

Nice-to-have

Platform buildingMulti-agent orchestrationDurable workflowsRetrieval systemsKnowledge systemsDocument processingOCRClassification

Soft skills

Clear written and verbal communicationMentoringLeadershipProduct senseCollaborationRaising the barLeading by example

Software DevelopmentAIAgentic AutomationAuditFinanceStaff Software EngineerPythonLLMAmsterdamHybrid

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