Principal Engineer – AI Platform

Team: R&D

Location: Rotterdam

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

You’ll help drive digital innovation by:

• Building something new upon an existing foundation, moving as fast as the GenAI space is progressing
• Working with early adopter customers to create a portfolio of GenAI modules and applications our customers really need.
• Working on a platform with a lasting impact and strategic value. Thousands of developers and millions of end users across the globe rely on your work and each commit can make a lot of impact.
• Being thorough, we like to get to the bottom of things; clear answers are more important than deadlines.

You’re the innovator we need if:

• You are excited to innovate together with customers, for customers.
• You have 10+ years experience building platforms, frameworks & applications.
• You have a proven technical track record and are able to demonstrate that. In this role, you will bring together technical expertise and leadership to help reach our goals with a pragmatic and can-do attitude.
• You are willing to learn & become fluent in Mendix development or have existing Mendix skills.
• You have an eye for product design & want to get the details right.
• You want to dive deep into the domain of generative AI & understand it.
• You feel responsible for the quality of your work and the impact it has on customers.
• You have experience in Agile software development. You’re able to adapt to change and are open-minded.
• You want to become part of a work environment in which your ideas are valued.
• You enjoy meeting your colleagues several times per week in a modern office in Rotterdam.

Bonus:

• Background in the domain of (generative) AI, either through your education, your work experience in the area of software development, or your personal projects

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary with regular reviews and opportunities for advancement
• 30 days PTO
• Hybrid work environment and flexible working hours to accommodate a healthy work-life balance
• Career development training and opportunities with a dedicated training budget for professional development
• 10% time: Spend 2 days per month on hacking on a new feature, learning a new technology or taking a course of your choice.

Experience a culture like no other at Mendix:

• We’re flexible in adopting new technologies and methodologies if that makes the product better or our lives easier. Each scrum team is free to choose its own tech stack, so you can always try that latest new idea, framework or design pattern. Our teams are small so that you can have a real influence. We care about open standards, and we’re also big fans of Test-Driven Development. We’re constantly improving our Continuous Integration process, which monitors the quality of our product and makes the lives of our developers and testers easier.
• Every month, we have crafting days when developers are invited to work on whatever they want. For example, people work on tech debt, try out cool new technology that may be useful to us (now or in the future), explore the latest trends in AI-assisted development tooling, or build a custom app that analyzes cupcake recipes using the newest LLM technology.
• We like people who take ownership and try to give everyone as much freedom as possible. This means there’s as little process as we can get away with, because we don't want to get in your way. We also strive to stay as flat as possible. Do you have an issue? Speak up and let us know. Even though our client base consists of large enterprises, we do not allow a bureaucratic culture to enter our R&D department. We value the start-up culture that has brought us so much success. We are a tech company, not a project-oriented organization.