Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Agentic AI

Job Description

As many of our hiring teams celebrate the holiday season from December 21st to January 5th, there may be slight delays in responses. Wishing you a joyful holiday season—we look forward to connecting in 2025. We are Camunda - where your work will have real impact! Picture yourself at a company where your work isn’t just another task on a list, but a key driver of transformation for hundreds of organizations. Your work will directly shape how hundreds of enterprises like Atlassian, NASA, and Goldman Sachs – orchestrate their most critical processes to drive digital transformation. In 2024, we crossed the $100 million mark in ARR – an incredible milestone in our growth story. We’ve been named in GP Bullhound’s 2024 Top 100 Next Unicorn list, we’ve earned Flexa’s stamp as a truly flexible workplace, and we proudly hold Great Place to Work certification in both the USA and UK. As a fully remote, global company, we’re rewriting the rules of how modern businesses operate. And we’re just getting started! We are growing fast and on a mission to find the very best talent in the world. If you’re ready to bring your bold ideas to a fast-paced, dynamic team, keep reading – this role could be the one you’ve been waiting for.

Join our dynamic AI team and shape the future of intelligent process orchestration. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by developing cutting-edge AI solutions, collaborating with customers and partners for real-world evaluation, and embedding these advancements into Camunda's process and orchestration product offerings. This role is at the intersection of AI and workflow automation, providing a unique opportunity to redefine how enterprises achieve operational excellence.

We focus on introducing agentic AI to streamline processes, enabling proactive decision-making, autonomous task execution, and intelligent orchestration. By leveraging advanced AI technologies and the rich process data available through our engine, we empower our clients to optimize workflows and achieve unparalleled efficiency.

This position is ideal for someone passionate about AI-driven transformation, eager to create impactful solutions, and ready to grow with a team dedicated to excellence and innovation.

As an AI Backend Developer, you will be instrumental in designing and developing the infrastructure for agentic AI capabilities. Your responsibilities will include building a scalable backend that seamlessly integrates AI agents into enterprise workflows, ensuring secure and efficient data processing, model deployment, and interaction management. You’ll work closely with product teams to enable autonomous orchestration and help our customers safely harness the full potential of AI in their business processes.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Take part in designing AI platform initiatives
• Allow our customers to build and maintain AI provider connectors
• Integrate Agentic AI feature set as part of our BPMN modeling tool

What You Bring:

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• Extensive experience working with Java (5yrs+)
• Experience with LLMs APIs and knowledge of what they can offer.
• Analytical problem-solving and root-causing skills
• High degree of curiosity and passion about what you do
• You thrive in taking ownership of the codebase, as well as how you deploy and operate software. You are comfortable with the “you build it, you run it” mindset
• Experience working on a software product in a start-up / scale-up environment

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience integrating with existing AI offerings,
• Experience with RAG, AI tooling, fine tuning,...
• Some experience with React (2yrs+)
• Experience working with BPMN
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Google Cloud
• Public Cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, Azure
• Experiences with API Gateways

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What We Have to Offer:

Compensation

For external hires, we consider the skills and experience of the incoming candidate, but typically place candidates in the first half of the range to ensure ample room for growth over the entire lifecycle of the role.

Below is the annual Total Target Cash Compensation (Total Cash) range for Camundi located in one of our entities. Total Cash refers to base salary and 100% attainment of variable target, where applicable. Actual Total Cash offered will depend on factors such as skills and qualifications related to the role. To comprise the Total Rewards package, Camunda also offers equity (where applicable) in the form of a Virtual Employee Stock Option Plan and benefits based on the country of residence.

The annual Total Cash range for this position for Camundi in our entities is as follows:

• United States: $131,200.00 to $196,800.00
  
• Germany: €87,300.00 to €130,900.00
• United Kingdom: £85,000.00 to £127,500.00
• Singapore: S$162,900.00 to S$244,400.00

If you are outside one of these countries, you would be employed by our Preferred Employer Organization (PEO), Remote. After applying for the role and speaking with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners, you will be provided a link to access the Camunda Total Rewards Calculator which will outline the Total Cash range for your country.

Benefits

• A remote by design culture, we believe talent is global!
• We support our employees in maintaining a healthy work/life balance, so we offer and encourage flexible time off at Camunda. Use your flexible time for anything that helps you recharge your batteries or maintain your life outside of work.
• A home office equipment budget and the choice of hardware. Mac, Windows, Linux - you choose what works best for you or/and you can work from a coworking space.
• We are committed to fostering a nurturing workplace where your health is prioritized and we help you to thrive. That's why we've teamed up with Modern Health to provide a global well-being program accessible to all Camundi.
• Beyond therapy and coaching sessions, Modern Health also offers guided meditations, digital wellness kits, and accessible learning content ranging from mental health, financial wellness, physical movement and more!
• To promote movement we also pay towards your fitness activities.
• Power your self-driven learning journey and elevate your skills by unlocking up to 1000 $/€/£ annually with the Professional Growth Benefit.
• We understand our employees contribute immeasurably to Camunda’s success. To allow employees to benefit from that success, every Camunda employee is offered virtual shares from our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

More of what we offer globally & in your country can be found here.

"Everyone is welcome at Camunda” — this is a celebrated component of our culture. We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our people. At Camunda, we honour diverse cultures and backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristics under applicable law. We are looking forward to your application!

Did we pique your interest? Apply now and learn more. For a complete list of jobs at Camunda, please check out: https://camunda.com/career/.