Senior Software Engineer - Agentic AI

• Build agentic content workflows: Develop solutions that support the preparation, generation, and organization of learning content, working closely with content experts to meet educational and quality requirements.
• Support content workflow management: Improve how content moves through creation, review, publication, and updates, with clear handovers, visible progress, and effective handling of exceptions.
• Enable scalable content delivery: Build and improve the services and processes that make learning content reliably available in the product, with attention to performance and the experience of teachers and students.
• Create shared AI tooling: Give teams the tools, context, and integrations they need to use agents effectively in their daily work, and help colleagues adopt useful approaches.
• Develop agentic delivery pipelines: Explore how agents can support software delivery, connecting agentic coding to CI/CD workflows, automated tests, and appropriate review.
• Make agent performance visible: Establish review, evaluation, and monitoring practices, and use the results to improve the reliability and quality of agentic workflows over time.

You combine strong software engineering foundations with practical experience applying AI agents to substantial software projects.

• Demonstrated expertise in agentic coding, with a track record of applying AI agents to large-scale software engineering challenges.
• Hands-on experience with automating code reviews and enforcing quality standards in human-in-the-loop systems.
• Deep understanding of agentic workflows, including the ability to build custom tooling and strategies for agent evaluation and testing.
• A solid understanding of system architecture and the ability to reason technical decisions across a wider system.
• Strong backend development and database expertise, with a solid understanding of event-sourcing fundamentals.
• Experience with test-driven development (TDD), behaviour-driven development (BDD), and reliable software delivery with CI/CD.
• Experience working across the stack, including frontend fundamentals with the ability to break down complex initiatives into individual tasks.
• Experience in both fast-moving and enterprise environments, with the judgement to adapt your approach.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of machine learning, from fundamentals to deeper expertise.
• Advanced frontend development skills.
• Deeper expertise in messaging systems.
• Experience with knowledge graphs and their practical applications.

• An international team of developers, educators, and digital experts.
• A centrally located workplace in the heart of Kreuzberg with excellent public transport connections.
• Home office days and flexible working hours.
• Collaboration in an open team with flat hierarchies.
• 28 vacation days with additional 2 days (Xmas Eve and NY Eve) off
• Enjoy unlimited travels with our Employer-subsidized Germany Ticket (Deutschland Job Ticket) for nationwide public transport
• Stay healthy with our subsidized Urban Sports Club membership for fitness and wellbeing
• We offer a corporate pension schema
• Get corporate discounts on hundreds of products of top brands

bettermarks was founded in 2008 and has since become a leading developer and provider of adaptive learning systems. The edtech company offers unique and effective adaptive learning solutions, setting new standards in the field of digital learning. The interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, educators, software developers, and computer scientists is supported and accompanied by renowned institutions and partner companies from science, technology, and education.

In Germany, bettermarks is currently used for mathematics by more than 20,000 teachers with around 500,000 students.