Senior Software Engineer - AI & Search (Europe)

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’re looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer who’s excited by complex challenges, but equally driven to simplify. Someone curious, pragmatic, and results-oriented—ready to join us in shaping 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.e.

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.  
• Growth: Work on cutting-edge problems in AI and search, alongside experienced engineers who value curiosity and learning.  
• Culture: Agile, startup-like, with quick decision-making and plenty of room to contribute ideas.  
• Balance: We believe in continuous feedback, lifelong learning, and supporting personal growth.
  
  

About Squirro

Businesses capitalize on new opportunities, improve client relations, and optimize decision-making capabilities using Squirro’s vertical-specific Augmented Intelligence solutions, which combine human intelligence with powerful AI. An Insight Engine at its core, we deliver contextualized insights from your most relevant data sources and display them directly, via workbench integrations, or through self-service applications.

Squirro works with global organizations, primarily in the Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications, and Manufacturing industries. Customers include Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, the European Central Bank, Henkel, and Candriam (A New York Life company).

Founded in 2012, Squirro is currently present in Zürich, London, Munich, New York, and Singapore. Further information about AI-driven business insights can be found at
https://squirro.com/

If this sounds like the kind of environment you’d thrive in, we’d love to hear from you.