Senior AI & Python Engineer: Lead AI-Powered Solutions

Netigate AB; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Netigate AB in Helsinki is seeking an experienced AI-focused backend engineer to join our product-driven team. You will build AI-driven services in Python, leverage GenAI tools, and design scalable retrieval systems powering LLM-based features.

Collaborate with a React/Node.js team to integrate AI capabilities into our product, lead new AI initiatives from prototype to production, and deploy on Azure using IaC practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Python experience.
• Experience with GenAI tools such as Claude, Cursor, and Copilot.
• Strong background in vector databases, embeddings, and hybrid search.
• Experience indexing and retrieving data from large data lakes for LLMs.
• Proficiency with APIs, microservices, and scalable backend architecture.
• Hands-on with Azure or similar cloud platforms.
• Fluent English with excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Build smart, scalable, and production-ready AI-driven services using Python.
• Apply the latest AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot in your daily workflow.
• Design andoptimize hybrid retrieval systems(e.g. vector + BM25) to power LLM-based agents and data lake exploration.
• Work closely with our main development team (React, Node.js) to bring AI capabilities into our product experience.
• Take the lead on new AI initiatives -prototype, test, build, and continuously improve.
• Leverage Azure cloud infrastructure (including pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, etc.) to deploy and manage your work.
• Stay on top of the evolving LLM/AI landscape and help us stay ahead of the curve.
• Build modern agents using LangGraph, MCP, gRPC with a mixture of proprietary and open models.
• Work on scalable data services using Kafka, RabbitMQ and various ELT platforms.
• Build and deploy with Github Action, Azure stack, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows - of course supported by SRE

Skills

Python

GenAI tools

Vector databases

Embedding stores

Hybrid search engines

APIs & microservices

LangGraph

MCP

gRPC

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Postgres

Airflow

Meltano

GitHub Copilot

Claude

Cursor

Word2Vec

CBOW

LSTM

NLP

Azure

Tools

Azure

LangGraph

gRPC

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Postgres

Airflow

Meltano

GitHub Copilot

Claude

Cursor

Word2Vec

CBOW

LSTM

NLP

Job description

Netigate AB in Helsinki is seeking an experienced AI-focused backend engineer to join our product-driven team. You will build AI-driven services in Python, leverage GenAI tools, and design scalable retrieval systems powering LLM-based features.

Collaborate with a React/Node.js team to integrate AI capabilities into our product, lead new AI initiatives from prototype to production, and deploy on Azure using IaC practices.