Senior Backend Engineer

Your mission

Youll play a key role in the success of deepset AI Platform our SaaS platform for Large Language Model (LLM) applications empowering users to build their own LLMpowered features.

Youll join our crossfunctional Product team and work closely with Product Design and other engineers.

Youll contribute to building a cuttingedge AI platform capable of handling high data volumes enabling users to deploy scalable AI applications that manage largescale traffic efficiently.

Our mission

We are an AI startup that empowers developers to build applications that use natural language as the interface to data. Our opensource framework Haystackis used by thousands of developers to build LLM applications. Our LLM platform deepset AI Platform enables enterprises worldwide to unlock the potential of large language models for their business cases. Come join our team and work with tech experts on realworld cases in a fastpaced and highimpact environment and shape the AI space together with us.

Life at deepset

At deepset you will find an environment with equal opportunities to grow share ideas build relationships and succeed. We believe every employee is important and generates a direct impact on our teams success.

We are certified by Fle xa Careers as a flexible employer and our remote first culture is designed to provide worklife balance autonomy and flexibility.

Our daily meetings the in per son re : ba se and the social events allow us to work with great synergy. We would like to invite you to visit our life page to learn more about our culture.

Your impact

• Design and build an AI platform that empowers customers to solve real business challenges using stateoftheart technology and customerdriven insights.
• Develop scalable infrastructure to support thousands of LLM applications processing millions of documents with the ability to handle 100s of user requests per second on our SaaS platform powered by Haystack our opensource library.
• Own features endtoend from ideation to production. This includes product and architecture design CI / CD pipelines implementation & testing production monitoring and incorporating customer feedback.
• Collaborate with our Open Source team to identify opportunities for improving Haystack and contribute enhancements to Haystack.
• Engage with infrastructure topics and collaborate with the infrastructure team for support and debugging assistance.
• Take on firefighter duties addressing urgent issues with direct customer exposure alongside the Solutions Engineering team. Maintain and enhance debugging processes to ensure system reliability.
• Mentor other engineers and help them grow in their careers.

Your profile

Perks

You can choose to work from home or any other workspace that suits you. We offer home office setup (equipment and furniture) and we would be happy to sponsor a coworking spot.

Personal and professional growth is important to us. We have an annual learning and development budget and also the opportunity to speak at conferences internal knowledge sharing and workshops.

We have a virtual office a monthly social budget to reconnect virtually or in person online walks and talks with colleagues from other teams and a flexible travel policy that enables you to meet colleagues in person for special occasions.

All employees are enrolled in the employee stock option plan and own a part of the company.

If you want to recharge and travel the world there are 30 days of paid vacation.

The choice is yours among our preselected options and we will provide what you need.

All fulltime employees are eligible for the pension plan according to the legal guidelines in their location. We also offer health dental and vision for employees in the US in compliance with the local market.

We want you to be secure during your travels. Therefore we offer every employee additional travel insurance.

To boost your health and wellbeing we offer a monthly allowance for your sports activity.

To boost your wellbeing we offer a benefit that helps you to respond to pivotal moments at work and beyond.

Our main coworking partner Mindspace welcomes dogs so you can also bring your best friend to the office and our HQ in Berlin also welcomes dogs

We offer additional days in case your child gets sick.

We dont work on the 24th & the 31st of December.

You can adapt your work to your private life.

What colleagues say

I got to see the challenge of identifying use cases for AI and building and evaluating an LLMbased application first hand in my previous role. As a result deepsets mission to empower teams to leverage this transformational technology deeply resonated with me.

AI is one of the biggest innovations in technology that we have seen since the Internet. Having a chance to work and learn from a company that is at the heart of the ecosystem and has been accumulating expertise in this space since 2018 was an opportunity that I had to jump on!

I am super excited to have joined this incredibly talented team! (Eliza Product Manager)

Deepset enables me to work with extremely talented and likeminded people on the tech Im passionate about. It is just outstanding to find such a wellorganized and yet creativityencouraging environment. Seeing everyone is dedicated to the bone to pushing this thrilling technology to its limits puts the cherry on top.Needless to say : Im proud to be part of deepset! (Thomas Senior NLP Engineer)

About us

Our vision : We make machines understand language so that humans can achieve more.

Our mission : To make custom AI solutions accessible to every organization driving adoption and impact. By combining innovation with expertise we simplify the complexity of LLM agent and application development empowering teams to solve their most missioncritical challenges with speed trust and control.

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Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Business Intelligence,Bidding,Accounts Assistant Credit Control,Account Development,Content Development,Lab Testing

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1