Senior Software Engineer - AI & Search

At Squirro, we build solutions that bring structure, clarity, and insight to messy real-world data. Our work sits at the intersection of AI, search, and real business impact — used daily by leading organizations like the Bank of England, Standard Chartered, and the European Central Bank.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering team in EMEA, helping build and scale the next generation of intelligent search and generative AI solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Engineer with purpose: Design, implement, and improve search and AI components powering our platform — where performance, scalability, and reliability really matter.
• Solve hard problems: Work across NLP, retrieval, generative AI, and distributed systems to build features that make messy data usable and valuable.
• Collaborate: Partner closely with product and fellow engineers — turning ideas into concrete solutions that work at scale.
• Keep it simple: Bring clarity to complexity. Cut through noise with clean designs, maintainable code, and practical solutions.
• Own it: Take responsibility from design to deployment, measuring and improving your work with the right metrics.

What You Bring

• Strong experience building and scaling backend systems — ideally search- or data-heavy, and in Python.
• Solid knowledge of Elasticsearch (or similar) and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Familiarity with NLP techniques, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or broader AI/ML concepts (or the curiosity to go deep fast).
• A pragmatic mindset: you care about results, reliability, and simplicity, not just shiny tech.
• Comfort working in a collaborative, fast-moving environment where ideas quickly turn into production.

Why Join Us

• Impact: Your work won’t disappear into a pipeline — you’ll see it used by some of the world’s leading organizations.