Senior Software Engineer – AI Platform & Developer Tooling

Senior Software Engineer – AI Platform & Developer Tooling

About the Role

You will be the hands-on engineer owning and evolving a portfolio of AI-adjacent products, ranging from full-stack web applications to developer CLI tools and AI agent infrastructure. You'll work at the intersection of backend engineering, cloud platforms, and the emerging world of AI agents, MCP (Model Context Protocol), and intelligent tooling. This is not a pure R&D role: you ship production code, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and take full ownership of your products.

What You'll Work On

You will own a diverse product portfolio spanning full-stack web applications (Java/Kotlin backends, Angular/VueJS frontends), Node.js CLI tooling, and a new local AI infrastructure product. Your work covers the full delivery lifecycle, from building and integrating microservices with async communication patterns, to managing CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, artifact distribution, authentication, and observability. A significant and growing part of the role sits at the frontier of AI agent tooling: you will build, maintain, and extend MCP-based infrastructure that brings AI capabilities directly into developers' workflows.

What You Bring

Core Engineering

Backend: Strong Java or Kotlin with Spring Boot; Node.js for CLI/tooling

Frontend: Angular or VueJS (TypeScript); comfortable reading and writing both

Microservices: Distributed systems design, async messaging, service integrations

Cloud: AWS (deployment, services, networking basics)

Containers: Docker, Docker Compose; understanding of local dev orchestration

Artifact management: Experience with Artifactory or similar registries

DevOps & Delivery

GitLab CI/CD: Pipeline authoring, runners, package/container registry

Observability: Logging, metrics, tracing; Grafana and collector setup

AI & Agent Ecosystem (differentiating requirement)

Solid understanding of how AI agents work and how to build for them

Hands-on knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) — what it is, how servers/clients interact

Familiarity with Skills / AI Harness frameworks

Experience integrating tools into agent environments (Cursor, Kiro, or equivalent)

Pragmatic and effective use of AI-assisted development: you leverage LLMs and agents to automate the repetitive, but you understand what you're shipping and own it

Mindset

You take end-to-end ownership — from design to production

You can work across multiple products without losing context

You're curious about the AI tooling space and keep up with its fast pace

You don't vibecode blindly — you use AI as leverage, not as a replacement for engineering judgment

Nice to Have

Experience publishing or consuming MCP-compatible tools

Kotlin coroutines / reactive patterns

Familiarity with Swisscom internal platforms or enterprise SSO/auth flows

Want to know more about the team?

We build products that help organizations use trustworthy and verifiable information in digital processes. Our work focuses on reducing manual verification, improving compliance workflows, and creating secure infrastructure that can be integrated into real business use cases.

You will join a team working on emerging digital trust topics across Switzerland and Europe, including eID, organizational identity, verifiable credentials, Know Your Business processes, digital signatures, PDF validation, and secure onboarding. We work closely with the market, internal stakeholders, and ecosystem partners to build products that solve concrete problems for organizations.

Want to know more about us?

We are serving the Swiss market as Switzerland’s leading IT & Telecom company. Thus, we are actively driving digitalization and networking, and tapping new paths for our customers and our employees. Our values are sparking passion, aim high and stand true.

Since 2019, we have been building up the coolest DevOps Center with a wonderful office at the World Trade Center in the heart of Rotterdam. We are currently recruiting IT passionate professionals who are keen on developing high-quality software, have an agile mindset and appreciate the collaboration with motivated colleagues from all over the world.

What's in it for you?

Work environment

Agile way of working, multi-cultural work environment promoting work-life balance

Autonomy, flexibility, opportunity and growth

Cool office space in the World Trade Center Rotterdam!

Are you coming to the office by bike or car? You can park right here at the office

Be a part of our events to build a stronger Swisscom community - for example, culture lunches, fun quizzes, game nights and a lot more!

Allowances

Full relocation support (Housing, settling in, etc.) for you and your family

200 euros per month Telephone/internet allowance

275 euros per month contribution to health insurance

5 Paid training days and access to Swisscom learning platforms

Travel allowance reimbursement

500 euros home office allowance

Gym subscription, Tax advice, and language course

Salary range: 60,000 to 70,000 euros gross per year including holiday allowance

Leaves policy

Work from abroad possibility for one month per year

Care, bereavement, maternity and paternity leaves

25 days paid vacation days plus Dutch national holidays

Contract terms

To begin with you will receive a fixed term contract (one year), after 6 months of your employment with us, after a feedback meeting with the team, there is a possibility of extending the contract

The salary ranges mentioned in our Job Descriptions are base annual gross salaries including the 8% holiday allowance