AI Software Engineer – Python (m/f/x)

Company Description

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment and banking platform with a full banking licence, empowering people across Europe to shape their own finances. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives, as well as set up savings plans. Scalable Wealth, the digital wealth management service, offers clients professional investment in ETF portfolios, and is also adopted as a white-label solution by banks and other B2B partners. The company’s offerings are rounded off by attractive interest rates, loans, and private equity. With the European Investor Exchange, Scalable Capital offers an exchange specifically for retail investors. Over one million clients have already entrusted more than €50 billion to the platform.

Founded in 2014, Scalable Capital now employs over 700 people across Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and London. Together with the founding and management team, including Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.

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Our Company Values guide us every day in how we work and collaborate. To learn more about them, you can find our values here (English).

Job Description

As an AI Software Engineer in our Data Science team, you will help design and deliver scalable backend and cloud systems that power our AI-driven products and services.

You will design and build scalable, production-grade systems and APIs, with a focus on integrating modern AI capabilities (via APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) into real-world applications.

We are not training models from scratch — instead, you will work on agentic AI systems, orchestration workflows, and cloud-native architectures that bring AI into production at scale. In this newly formed work stream, you will have the unique opportunity to lay the foundations and set the right technical direction.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain AI/LLM services for internal and potential client-facing services, following software engineering best practices
• Design and develop appropriate architectures for deploying and maintaining scalable AI-enabled solutions on AWS
• Extend our Terraform infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
• Design and implement testing and monitoring components to ensure the accuracy, reliability, and performance of AI-integrated systems
• Work with modern agentic workflow orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph) to build intelligent workflows
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful integration of AI-driven features into our product
• Stay up to date with the latest industry developments in AI integration, cloud architecture, and scalable backend systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Several years of professional software development experience with Python
• A generalist mindset with the ability to quickly learn, adapt to new topics, and switch between domains such as infrastructure and backend engineering
• Experience with Docker, building CI/CD pipelines, and version control systems
• Confidence in working with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Familiarity with modern agentic workflow orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph) would be a plus
• Strong problem-solving skills, organizational skills, and a hands-on mentality

Additional Information

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget 
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• International relocation support is provided if required 
• Opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker
• Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club