Staff AI Engineer

Summary

Join Eurowings Digital as a Staff Engineer and become a key player in developing solutions for adaptive and loosely coupled distributed systems. You will act as a technical lead for an Agile squad, collaborate with product owners, and translate business needs into technical requirements. Responsibilities include leading project delivery, designing AI-driven features, evaluating emerging AI/ML technologies, and championing quality and security. You will mentor engineers and represent the engineering team in strategic initiatives. This role offers a remote-first hybrid work model within Germany, with flexible working hours and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
• Solid experience with both front-end and back-end software development, with deep understanding of modern, complex system architectures
• Experience designing and implementing microservice oriented architecture with attention to scalability, resilience, and maintainability
• Strong proficiency in technologies such as Java, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Spring, JEE, Vue.js, Angular, REST, and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka)
• Hands-on experience with at least one database system (e.g., Elastic search, Cassandra, MSSQL, MySQL)
• Proven experience working with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment automation, and regression testing strategies
• Practical knowledge of Agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban, with experience in leading or facilitating technical discussions within such frameworks

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead and architect for a cross-functional Agile squad, supporting them daily with technical guidance, problem-solving, and process improvements
• Collaborate with product owners to define and shape product visions by providing strategic technical direction
• Moderate between development teams and internal business stakeholders, helping translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements
• Drive the successful delivery of projects from inception to deployment, identifying complex mapping, integration, or interface needs
• Lead the design, development, and integration of AI-driven features such as personalisation, product recommendations and conversational agents
• Evaluate and apply emerging AI/ML technologies to solve real-world business problems, ensuring responsible and ethical use of AI
• Challenge technical decisions and propose sustainable alternatives that support long-term business and platform goals
• Champion quality, security, scalability, and observability in system architecture and software delivery
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and engineering excellence
• Represent the engineering team in strategic initiatives, ensuring technology aligns with business outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing AI/ML features in production environments
• Exposure to and hands-on understanding of applications and architectures involving conversational agents, fine-tuning, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Strong programming and engineering skills, with the ability to design, build, and maintain scalable AI systems
• Clear, effective communication skills, with the ability to translate complex AI concepts into practical, actionable solutions for cross-functional teams
• A strategic mindset and the ability to balance technical depth with business impact
• Proven ability to moderate technical discussions and guide teams toward solutions that meet both business and engineering objectives
• A passion for mentoring and elevating engineering teams
• Curiosity, innovation, and a strong bias toward pragmatic, customer-centric solutions
• Experience in the e-commerce domain is highly desirable

Benefits

• Fly with friends and family around the world by using the entire Lufthansa and partner network
• Discover the world within 30 vacation days a year + two days off for Christmas and New Year's Eve
• Get discounts across a large range of brands (e.g. Telekom, Zalando, Apple, Sixt, Bosch…)
• With "Joblunch" from Belonio, Eurowings Digital finances up to 2 EUR of your lunch on working days!
• Evolve professionally in our agile environment by taking part in challenging projects with cutting edge technologies and a lot of personal responsibility
• Shape your career growth through regular discussions with your Team Lead and 360° feedbacks from your colleagues
• Work in a cross functional team where you gain/share knowledge every day and on regular talks like “Peer School” or “Ask the Expert”
• Every year you will get a training budget for meetups, conferences, trainings, coaching
• You can improve your (German) language skills through our online courses
• With your Linkedin Learning account you access plenty of additional trainings and courses
• We love dogs! Feels free to bring your doggo to the office :) They can "work" from our separate dog office
• Get excited and challenge your colleagues while playing with our Playstation 5 or kickertable
• Participate directly in the creation of our product that helps millions of customers create amazing travel memories
• Feel at home in our (English speaking) international & diverse team
• Take part in our regular team events where we celebrate all together e.g. major successes, Carnival or the end of the year!
• Feel our unique atmosphere: a start-up spirit integrated in a big company
• With our trust-based working hours, you can start and finish at a time that suits you for a harmonized work-life balance
• Our hybrid working model gives you the flexibility to keep close connections with your teammates at our offices (e.g. through onsite events), while also having the possibility to work from home
• Relocation package and personalized support (e.g. for Visa or Work Permit) will be offered for you and your family if needed