Senior AI Software Engineer (all genders)

Your purpose at Kertos

As an AI Software Engineer at Kertos – the European Champion for Compliance Automation – you’ll play a key role in shaping how AI is embedded into our platform and product experience.

We turn compliance from a yearly fire drill into a continuous, low-friction product experience – and AI is at the heart of that transformation.

You’ll build AI-powered product features that help companies generate documentation, automate workflows, and interact intelligently with compliance systems. Working in a cross-functional squad, you’ll ship improvements weekly, shape product decisions, and directly influence how applied AI is used in modern compliance across Europe.

Your Responsibilities

* Build AI-powered compliance experiences: Develop features that generate policies, automate documentation, and assist users through intelligent workflows.

* Work on applied AI, not research: Integrate and orchestrate LLMs into real product use cases that deliver immediate value to customers. Make automation feel intelligent and reliable: Improve how our AI assistant and generative systems behave, ensuring accuracy, usability, and trust.

* Own the process: Drive features from concept to delivery, shaping both technical implementation and product outcomes.

* Continuously improve what you build: Iterate on existing systems, refine outputs, and enhance performance over time.

* Shape engineering excellence: Contribute to improving developer experience, system quality, and delivery speed.

The Skills, Motivation, And Mentality You Should Bring

* Proven track record as a Software Engineer (backend or fullstack)

* Strong experience with Python

* Experience building production-grade systems and APIs

* Interest in AI and applied LLM use cases (hands-on experience is a plus)

* Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and a passion for building impactful products

* Comfortable working in environments with evolving requirements and imperfect information

* Proactive mindset: you don’t just deliver tasks, you improve systems

Why Kertos

* You are Kertos: Don’t like something? Could be done better? You have the freedom to push things forward and contribute to making Kertos a great place to work

* Unique opportunity: Join the growing team of one of Europe’s most promising early stages companies and to work directly with our CTO Alex

* European funding in the millions: The EU has funded our AI research with a total of over 2 million euros

* Regular Feedback: We foster an open feedback culture and support your growth with regular 1-on-1 meetings

* Full Flexibility: Whether at the Berlin office, our Munich HQ or at your home office – we are flexible, and you'll be happy

* Keep growing: To boost your professional and personal growth, we provide you with a Personal Development Budget of 1.500€ per year

* Cutting Edge Technology: Leading VCs have invested in our vision to revolutionize how compliance measures are handled sustainably

* Mental Health: We've partnered with nilo to prioritize your well-being, offering personalized mental health support for all employees

* For Sports Enthusiasts: We subsidize your Wellpass membership for your physical fitness for a better work-life balance

* Steep learning curve: With us you get full responsibility from day 1, push topics forward independently and thus learn a lot

* Strong onboarding: No idea about compliance and its automation? No problem, we'll turn you into an expert and provide you with an onboarding buddy

* Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: We are a strong team that supports each other, and we also have a lot of fun together beyond work and across different locations

Sounds like you are the one we’ve been looking for?

Perfect, let's have a chat! Just send in your CV. We are excited to meet you soon.

In case you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our People & Culture team. We're happy to answer all your questions

About Us

Founded in 2021 and backed by investors such as Portage, Redstone, 10x Founders, Seed + Speed, and xdeck, we are on a rapid growth trajectory. Today, we are a team of over 45 ambitious talents from 15 nations, united by our mission to transform compliance from a challenge into a seamless standard. With our platform, we help companies implement regulatory requirements effortlessly, cost-effectively, and stress-free. From our offices in Berlin and Munich, we are driving this vision forward – and this is just the beginning.