AI Software Engineer (m/f/d)

AI Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Location: Vienna preferred (remote within Austria)

Salary: €70,000 – €85,000 gross/year

Team: ~20 people total, 2–3 Sr.Engineers, AI Agents

Reports to: Co-Founder & COO

Headcount: Company wide: 20 FTE, Tech Department: 2-3 Engineers

Your Mission:

Our customer is a Legal-tech B2B SaaS company that can protect any product on the internet (Remove.tech).

remove.tech is building the infrastructure to automatically detect and remove counterfeits, scams, and brand abuse across the internet.

Remove.tech is a bootstrapped B2B SaaS company from Vienna. In just 3 years, we grew from 0 to €1.2M ARR working with creators and global brands.

Now we’re looking for an AI-first engineer who wants to take real ownership and help us scale the product to the next level. This is not a “feature factory” role. You will shape how our AI systems, data pipelines, and infrastructure evolve.

Your First 6 Months

After 1 month

Understand the product, customers, and data flows

Dive into the existing architecture and pipelines

Talk to users and see real problems first-hand

After 3 months

Ship improvements weekly

Identify and implement quick wins

Build trust and start owning parts of the system

Contribute to how AI is used across the product

After 6 months

Own core parts of the architecture

Drive AI and backend decisions• Define how we scale the system for the next years

Your Responsibilities

Own and evolve backend services (crawlers, APIs, AI services)

Design systems for scale, speed, and reliability

Build and improve AI pipelines (LLMs, classification, clustering)

Turn messy, real-world data into structured insights

Improve code quality, testing, and monitoring standards

Work closely with founders, product, and customers

Help us hire and level up future engineers

Your profile

Strong backend experience (ideally C#/.NET, but not a must)

Comfortable with Node.js as service layer

Experience working with data-heavy systems

Hands-on experience with AI / LLMs / data pipelines

Solid understanding of system design and architecture

Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and messaging systems

Ownership mindset and decision-making ability

Clear communicator

Startup or scale-up experience is a plus

Tech stack (today):

C#/.NET, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, React/TypeScript

What you’ll get:

Core role in a fast-growing AI SaaS company

Direct impact on product and technical direction

Real ownership from day one

Exposure to complex problems (AI, crawling, large-scale data)

Remote-first setup (DACH)

Flat hierarchy, direct access to founders

Clear path towards Tech Lead

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