Senior AI Platform Engineer - Remote, Flexible Hours, Stock

Runware; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Meaningful stock options

Remote-first setup

Flexible hours

Family leave

Company retreats

Job summary

Runware is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on turning ambitious ideas into production systems that delight developers and deliver real business impact. You’ll work across the stack, from backend APIs and orchestration to SDKs, dashboards, and developer tools.

You’ll take ownership from start to finish, understanding user needs, designing elegant solutions, and delivering outcomes that make building with AI faster, simpler, and more creative.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building distributed and high-performance systems.
• Strong programming skills in PHP or Go.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Understanding of asynchronous workloads, queues, and streaming data.
• Experience working with cloud and bare-metal infrastructure.
• Excellent grasp of system design, performance optimisation, and scalability principles.
• Clear communicator who leads technical projects and collaborates effectively across teams.
• Passionate about mentoring others and raising engineering standards.
• Proactive problem-solver who balances short-term progress with long-term vision.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of core systems powering Runware’s AI platform.
• Build and evolve backend APIs, SDKs, and developer tools that make AI integration seamless.
• Integrate and optimise image and video models while supporting new modalities such as audio and custom LLMs.
• Architect scalable, reliable systems for inference orchestration and workload optimisation.
• Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to drive performance, reliability, and observability improvements.
• Shape technical direction through architectural discussions and long-term planning.
• Mentor engineers through code and design reviews, fostering technical excellence and growth.
• Contribute to documentation, tooling, and SDKs that enhance the overall developer experience.
• Drive initiatives that improve how we build, deploy, and maintain our platform.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend design

PHP

Go

APIs

Mentoring

System design

Performance optimization

Job description

Runware is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on turning ambitious ideas into production systems that delight developers and deliver real business impact. You’ll work across the stack, from backend APIs and orchestration to SDKs, dashboards, and developer tools.

You’ll take ownership from start to finish, understanding user needs, designing elegant solutions, and delivering outcomes that make building with AI faster, simpler, and more creative.