AI-First Full Stack Developer

Philipp Plein; Ticino; Remote; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PHILIPP PLEIN is an AI-first Swiss luxury fashion group seeking a software engineer to ship production-grade AI solutions. You will work on frontend and backend, connecting product data and sales data with AI tools.

You will build end-to-end AI apps, run ETL pipelines with Airflow, and ensure security, quality and cost controls. Remote within the EU is offered, Lugano-based or EU-wide collaboration possible.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of production software development experience.
• Experience with at least one real-LMM deployment used by users.
• Fluent English.
• Strong frontend skills: TypeScript, React or Next.js.
• Solid backend skills: Python (FastAPI) or Node.js; REST APIs and background jobs.
• Database and data work: PostgreSQL, SQL, data modelling, migrations, tuning.
• ETL orchestration with Airflow; data quality checks; dbt; Snowflake/Databricks.
• Experience with LLMs: Claude/OpenAI APIs; prompts with cost limits; multi-agent with human approval.

Responsibilities

• Learn how our tech stack works end to end and identify weaknesses.
• Fix speed, cost, stability, and security issues.
• Build AI-driven solutions across frontend, backend and database.
• Develop agents and web apps for business teams; read data connections.
• Run ETL pipelines with Airflow and ensure data quality.
• Track apps, agents and pipelines to monitor costs and performance.

Skills

Front-end development

Backend development

LLM integration

Data pipelines

AI governance

Code reviews & testing

CI/CD GitHub Actions

Data science basics

Tools

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Python (FastAPI)

Node.js

REST APIs

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

Databricks

LangGraph

Pydantic AI

Claude / OpenAI APIs

PGVector

Docker

Azure

GitHub Actions

Job description

Most AI projects end in a slide deck. Ours go live.

Lugano, Switzerland or remote within the EU

About PHILIPP PLEIN

PHILIPP PLEIN is a Swiss luxury fashion group with several brands, stores and online shops around the world. We are AI-first: we rethink how the work is done, then build it with AI. What you build lands directly with our merchandise, allocation, finance and operations teams.

What you will do

• Learn how our tech stack works end to end and find the weak spots: slow, costly, fragile or outdated.
• Fix those spots (speed, cost, stability, security, clean code), then keep them healthy.
• Build AI-driven solutions end to end, frontend, backend and database, from first idea to daily use.
• Build agents and web apps for business teams; connect product, PLM and sales data (read only).
• Run ETL pipelines with Airflow: gather data from all systems, clean it, check it, improve it.
• Track every app, agent and pipeline: who did what, errors, cost and quality, so you can fix fast and keep improving.

What you bring

• Experience: 3 to 5 years as a developer shipping software to production, at least one LLM solution used by real people, fluent English.
• Frontend: TypeScript, React or Next.js; clear, fast screens for business users.
• Backend: Python (FastAPI) or Node.js; REST APIs, sign-in, background jobs, automated tests.
• Databases and data: PostgreSQL, strong SQL, data modelling, migrations, query tuning; ETL orchestration with Airflow, data quality checks, dbt, Snowflake or Databricks.
• LLMs and agents: Claude and OpenAI APIs, prompts with cost limits, structured output, MCP, multi-agent with human approval (LangGraph, Pydantic AI or Claude Agent SDK), RAG, embeddings, vector search (pgvector), tool calling.
• Data science: pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, LightGBM or statsmodels; forecasts tested on past seasons.
• Governance and tracing: access rights, GDPR and Swiss data law, versioned prompts and models; audit trail (who, when, old to new); run tracing (Langfuse or similar), error tracking (Sentry or similar), cost, speed and quality per call, test sets for LLM answers.
• AI coding and delivery: Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot every day; you review, test and fix what the tool writes. Docker, Azure or another cloud, CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Working skills: process mapping; turning what users say into clear specs and tickets.

Who you are

• You start from the work, not the model.
• You ship things people use, then make them better.
• You check every number and every AI answer before you trust it.
• You explain your work in simple words, so anyone in the company can follow.

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