Principal Full Stack Engineer, AI Platform & Agents

Wolters Kluwer - Financial Services Solutions; Hürth; Remote; EUR 100.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Wolters Kluwer is hiring a Principal Full Stack Engineer for the GenAI Platform & Agents in a remote-first setup across US and EU. You will design and implement scalable GenAI components, AI agents, and platform services to accelerate decision-making in healthcare, legal, tax, and compliance domains.

You will lead architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, UX, and domain experts to deliver measurable customer value with secure SDLC practices and high reliability.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack development and cloud experience.
• Expertise in AI agent development and evaluation.
• Proficiency across backend, frontend and cloud services.

Aufgaben

• Design and implement full-stack applications, AI agents, and platform components for rapid GenAI development.
• Build developer tooling, CI/CD, and observability for safe, fast iteration.
• Apply secure SDLC and privacy-by-design practices.
• Collaborate with product, UX, and domain experts to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Lead by example; mentor engineers and own large projects.

Kenntnisse

Full-stack development

Cloud experience

AI agent development

Backend development

Frontend development

Tools

LangChain

MCP/A2A

OpenSearch

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Jobbeschreibung

About this role

Job Posting As principal Full Stack Engineer, AI Platform & Agents, you will build the GenAI platform that powers critical decisions in healthcare, legal, tax, and compliance industries. Your work will directly shape the future of these fields, enabling faster, safer, and more impactful decision-making at a global scale.

Tech stack

You don’t need to know all of these on day one, but you should be ready to learn quickly. TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, LangChain/LangGraph, MCP/A2A, Rust AWS (primary), Azure, GCP; Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions DocumentDB, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Azure AI Search Azure OpenAI, AWS Anthropic, Google Gemini GitHub, Confluence, Slack

What you’ll do

Design and implement full‑stack applications, AI agents, and platform components that enable rapid GenAI agent development, validation, and deployment. Build developer tooling, CI/CD, and observability for safe, fast iteration (evals, canaries, rollout/rollback, cost and quality telemetry). Apply secure SDLC and privacy‑by‑design practices (threat modeling, least privilege). Collaborate with product, UX, and domain experts to deliver customer‑focused solutions with measurable outcomes. Apply current LLM patterns (RAG, retrieval, routing, tool‑use, evals) to deliver measurable customer value—faster, more reliable AI systems; reduced time‑to‑decision; improved trust/safety metrics; and lower cost per query. Lead by example and be heavily hands‑on: drive architecture, mentor engineers, and take ownership of larger projects.

Team context

Org and Sub‑teams: Central GenAI Platform within Wolters Kluwer, driving innovation across businesses by creating re‑usable platform services and components. Sub‑teams are fewer than 10 engineers, focused on platform services or customer‑facing agents.

Culture and Reporting

We value a "manager of one" mindset, where outcomes matter more than optics. Authority is earned through demonstrated impact, not tenure or title. You’ll report directly to the Director of Engineering, AI Platform.

Team Size and Impact

Our globally distributed team of ~100 engineers combines the stability of an established company with the agility of a startup. We are moving fast, and there are many areas where you can have a big impact.

Work setup

Remote‑first in US or EU, with hybrid options near major offices. Collaboration requires 9–11 AM CST overlap. Occasional travel for team onsites/offsites as needed.

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full‑stack development skills and cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Expert in at least one, and proficient across the others: AI Agent development and evaluation Backend development Frontend development Cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP) CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Quality engineering / testing strategy Secure SDLC and privacy by design Proven track record delivering secure, reliable, cloud‑native systems to production. Excellent problem‑solving, ownership, and cross‑functional communication.

Nice to have

• Proven ability to deliver software products independently or as part of a small, fast‑paced team.
• Experience of taking AI agents from concept to production, including safety evaluations, iterative testing (e.g., A/B testing), and continuous improvement.
• Experience with LangChain/LangGraph and MCP; vector/RAG systems; OpenSearch.
• Worked on traditional ML tasks like training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Understand how LLMs work, their failure modes, and techniques like fine‑tuning and model adaptation.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as SOC2, HIPAA, etc.

Stages

15‑minute intro screen 2× live coding in your preferred language 1× systems design 1× presentation of past work Timeline: Typically 2–4 weeks

Your first months

Month 1: Deep‑diving into one platform component most aligned with your expertise; ship small improvements while ramping up. After onboarding: We’ll align on a high‑impact area that fits your strengths and ambitions.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in‑person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI‑generated responses or third‑party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Wolters Kluwer

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us. Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world.

You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong. Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide. Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI‑powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity. We deliver trusted, AI‑powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert‑validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes. Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI‑powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains. We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud‑based, AI‑powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high‑stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential. With a nearly 190‑year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes. For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.

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