Back End Developer

Salento; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home flexibility

Growth opportunities

Collaborative start-up environment

Job summary

A dynamic start-up in Utrecht is seeking a Backend Engineer for its AI-driven SaaS product. You will play a crucial role in the technical realization of this innovative product. The ideal candidate will have experience with Python and FastAPI, as well as a keen interest in software architecture and AI. The role offers a gross annual salary of up to EUR 85K and various growth opportunities within a collaborative environment. Hybrid work is supported, with a preference for two office days per week.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic personality, good with people and thrives in transparent company culture.
• Above-average interest in software architecture and scalability.
• Interest in AI and ML knowledge absorption.
• Demonstrable seniority with Python and ideally FastAPI.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical realization of the new AI SaaS product.
• Collaborate with Data Scientist, Lead Developer, Product Owner, Sales Executive & CEO.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Software architecture

AI and Machine Learning

Job description

Backend Engineer – AI-Driven SaaS Product – up to EUR 85K – Utrecht / Hybrid

My client is a start-up that per 2026 started building an AI-driven SaaS product. The product provides knowledge workers a high degree of automation consequently these teams have much more time for human interaction. This leads to much more value creation within the organizations. Many repetitive and manual actions are automated by this AI-driven SaaS product. But this is only the beginning of the many valuable features that will be built. A more groundbreaking example is the ability to filter conflicting statements in huge amounts of documents.

The enormous attention for AI (ChatGPT) has paid off for my client. But my client was already working on their vision before the AI hype (blue print was drawn back in 2018). This resulted in a very successful scale-up, and this new start-up is a spin off.

As a Backend Engineer, you will contribute to the technical realization of this new to build AI SaaS product. The initial team further consists of a Data Scientist, Lead Developer, Product Owner, Sales Executive & CEO.

You bring:

• An enthusiastic personality, you are good with people and like to help! And you thrive well in a transparent and honest company culture;
• An above-average interest in software architecture & scalability;
• Interest in absorbing AI & ML knowledge;
• Demonstrable seniority with Python and ideally FastAPI;
• Knowledge and experience with more tooling that you like to contribute and introduce to my client.

Some of the benefits that my client has to offer:

• Working with very ambitious and driven people in a great start-up environment.
• Many growth opportunities: with rapid growth, new functions appear. Deliver, show energy and challenge assumptions, and you will quickly get new challenges and responsibilities.
• Work from home when you want, but there is a policy of working 2 days in the office, so that the team can learn together and collaborate on challenging projects.
• Gross annual salary up to 85k and secondary package.

Interested!? Contact me via [e-mail]