Senior AI Platform Engineer - Remote & Stock Options

Runware; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Stock options

Remote-first setup

Flexible hours

Family leave

Company retreats

Job summary

Runware, a remote-first collective, invites a Senior Software Engineer to turn ambitious AI ideas into production systems that delight developers and deliver real business impact.

You'll own end-to-end design across backend APIs, orchestration, SDKs, dashboards, and developer tools, collaborating across teams to build robust, performant systems in a rapidly evolving AI platform. Ideal for engineers who want leadership and architectural influence.

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed, high-performance systems.
• Proficient in PHP or Go and API design.
• Track record delivering scalable backend systems.
• Familiar with asynchronous workloads, queues, and streaming data.
• Experience with cloud and bare-metal infrastructure.
• Strong system-design, performance optimization, and scalability skills.
• Clear communicator capable of leading projects across teams.
• Mentoring others and raising engineering standards.
• Proactive, with long-term architectural thinking.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of core systems powering Runware's AI platform
• Build and evolve backend APIs, SDKs, and developer tools
• Integrate and optimise image and video models while supporting 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
• Contribute to documentation, tooling, and SDKs that enhance the developer experience
• Drive initiatives that improve how we build, deploy, and maintain our platform

Skills

Distributed systems

PHP

Go

Backend APIs

Asynchronous workloads

Cloud / on-prem infrastructure

System design

Communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Job description

Runware, a remote-first collective, invites a Senior Software Engineer to turn ambitious AI ideas into production systems that delight developers and deliver real business impact.

You'll own end-to-end design across backend APIs, orchestration, SDKs, dashboards, and developer tools, collaborating across teams to build robust, performant systems in a rapidly evolving AI platform. Ideal for engineers who want leadership and architectural influence.