Staff Software Engineer - Alwin

The role

You will build Alwin, an Agentic Automation Platform for audit and finance, and the systems around it. You will write production code, build agentic runtimes, and lead technical direction to improve agent accuracy, speed, and reliability.

What you will do

• Write production code on complex and critical parts of Alwin
• Build proofs of concept for new agent capabilities and take them to production
• Champion experimentation and R&D with emerging models and techniques
• Build shared capabilities for multiple teams to adopt
• Contribute to the agent harness including orchestration, tools, context and evaluation loops
• Anticipate platform needs for the next 12 to 18 months
• Build reliable agents for regulated domains using grounding and human-in-the-loop
• Establish tooling and feedback loops to detect agent failures and prevent regressions
• Resolve hard incidents and turn learnings into systemic fixes
• Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leadership

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering
• Strong, production-grade Python
• Deep hands-on experience building and shipping agentic or LLM systems in production
• Track record of personally solving ambiguous, high-impact problems across teams
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and growing technical leadership
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, software architecture and data modeling on a major cloud platform
• Experience with security, access control and auditability for enterprise or regulated customers
• Product sense to influence product and engineering direction
• Proficient with AI-assisted engineering
• Clear written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Building platforms that other teams and customers build on
• Multi-agent orchestration or durable, long-running workflows at scale
• Retrieval and knowledge systems, or document processing (OCR, classification, structured extraction)
• Working closely with Forward Deployed Engineers, Solution Architects and GTM teams on enterprise rollouts
• Experience at a scale-up going through rapid growth
• Domain experience in audit, accounting or fintech

Benefits

• Equity (Stock Appreciation Rights)
• Pension plan with a 6% contribution on top of base salary
• 28 vacation days per year
• Hybrid work model with at least 3 days onsite in Amsterdam
• Daily, freshly prepared lunches by an in-house chef
• NS business card for commuting if applicable
• Access to continuous learning and development initiatives
• Access to a mental health and wellness platform

Before you apply

• Recruitment Screen (30 minutes, online)
• Hiring Manager Interview (30 minutes, online)
• Live coding Interview (75 minutes, online)
• System design interview (60 minutes, on-site)
• Final Interview (30 minutes, online)

About the company

DataSnipper builds AI solutions that empower audit and finance professionals. The company is a profitable unicorn scale-up in the Netherlands with a global impact.