Senior AI-Native Software Engineer (Backend / Full-stack)

The Agile Monkeys; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Agile Monkeys is hiring several engineers to join senior pods embedded with enterprise clients. You will work on production software, building backend services, APIs, and occasionally frontend features, with AI-driven development at the core.

You'll collaborate with US clients, ship real software, and apply LLMs and agents to real products. Strong sense of ownership and ability to explain tradeoffs are valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building software professionally.
• Strong in at least one backend stack.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship backend services and APIs, and the frontend when a feature needs it.

Skills

Java/Spring Boot

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

React

LLMs integration

AI coding tools

Cloud / CI/CD / containers

English communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

About The Agile Monkeys

We're a software studio of 75+ people, and still growing. We build production AI systems for regulated industries like healthcare, insurance and banking, mostly for US clients. We also build our own AI-native products. AI isn't a layer we add on top. It's how we work and what we ship.

About the role

We're growing several teams at once, so this posting covers more than one seat. You'd join a small, senior pod of three or four engineers embedded with one of our enterprise clients.

Some pods build AI features into products people use every day. Others work on the internal platform the client's engineers use to build, test and ship, where AI-assisted development is the whole point. We'll match you with the team where your stack and your interests fit best.

What stays the same from team to team: you ship real software to production, and AI is part of how you do it.

Day to day, you'd:

• Build and ship backend services and APIs, and the frontend when the feature needs it.
• Build with LLMs and agents as part of the product, not as a demo.
• Use AI coding tools every day, and help the team figure out where they actually help.
• Get productive fast in codebases you've never seen, legacy ones included.
• Turn fuzzy requirements into something the pod can build, and question tickets that don't make sense.
• Work directly with the client's engineers, in English.

What we're looking for

The technical side

• 5+ years building software professionally. Fewer, but clearly on your way up? Tell us anyway.
• Strong in at least one backend stack. Java with Spring Boot is the most common across our teams. TypeScript/Node and Python show up too.
• Comfortable with React and TypeScript, or happy to pick them up when a feature needs it.
• You've built something real with LLMs: an agent, a RAG system, a workflow that took work off someone's plate. Side projects count if you shipped them.
• You use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor or similar) enough to have a real opinion on them.
• Cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP), CI/CD and containers are a plus.

Communication

• English at B2 or above, in writing and on a call. You'll work with US clients every day.
• You explain technical tradeoffs clearly, to engineers and to people who don't write code.
• You flag things early.

The human side

• You take ownership. When something's off, you raise it and bring a fix.
• You're not married to a technology or to your own ego.
• You care about leaving code the next person can actually maintain.
• You like small teams where everyone's work is visible.

On your background

Skip the list of every framework you've touched. Send us your GitHub, and tell us about one thing you built with AI that you're proud of, and one time AI got in your way.

What you get

Fully remote, with our Las Palmas, Tenerife and Madrid offices open to you whenever you want them. Full time, on a long-term engagement.

Like the sound of it? Talk to us!