Applied AI Engineer (m/f/d)

Job Description

Shopware is a leading ecommerce system that enables companies worldwide to scale quickly and efficiently in digital commerce.

In this role, you’ll be part of the Agentic Commerce Lab, a startup-like team within our scale-up, dedicated to exploring how agentic systems will shape commerce by 2030. We build new products, run fast experiments, and prove what is possible.

Join us on the zero-to-one journey and shape the future of commerce as part of a strategic moonshot at Shopware. This is not a "wait for requirements" kind of role. You operate as an entrepreneur inside Shopware, acting like an owner. You will drive ideas from inception to production.

We are looking for an AI Native Applied Engineer with strong full-stack capabilities and a frontend focus to join our engineering team. In this role, you will design and build modern, AI-powered product experiences while working across the entire technology stack. On the frontend, you should have solid experience building scalable interfaces using Vue.js, Next.js, JavaScript, or TypeScript, with a strong focus on performance, usability, and maintainable architecture. On the backend, you should be comfortable developing services and APIs using Python or PHP or Golang, and collaborating closely with product, design, and AI teams to integrate intelligent features into real-world applications. The ideal candidate enjoys working in a fast-moving environment, building high-quality user experiences, and leveraging AI technologies to deliver impactful product capabilities.

This position can be filled on-site, hybrid, or full-remote within Germany or specific European countries where we are registered. Your work location will be agreed upon in advance and forms the basis of your employment contract.

These are your tasks:

• Build what is next: You live in our customers' relative future. Push the edge of what is possible with the latest in AI, often without documentation or playbooks.
• End-to-end ownership: responsibility for your bets from idea to production.
• Ship fast: You can just ship things, both because you have the permission to and because you are comfortable iterating in public.
• Own the full stack: Work across frontend, backend, and AI infrastructure to ship complete merchant-facing capabilities.
• Experiment with everything: Test new models, agentic techniques, and architectural patterns weekly; share learnings with the team.
• Make AI reliable: Build robust systems with graceful degradation, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks.
• Optimize for cost and latency: Balance model capabilities with real-world constraints of production commerce systems.

This is what you’ll bring to the table:

None of these is a hard requirement. Most important is a desire to continuously learn and live on the bleeding edge of AI developments. At the frontier, the only constant is change, and we're looking for folks who want to thrive here.

• Technical Experience: We are looking for candidates with a minimum of 3+ years of relevant experience in full-stack AI-focused engineering roles.
• Front-end interfaces: Vue.js, Next.js, JavaScript, or TypeScript, with a strong focus on performance, usability, and maintainable architecture.
• Backend: comfortable developing services and APIs using Python or PHP or Golang.
• Has built and operated production-grade AI/agent systems (not just prototypes)
• Has experience with agentic workflows (multi-step reasoning, tool usage, orchestration)
• Has worked on multiple AI-related projects and can compare approaches and trade-offs
• Understands real-world challenges like evaluation, monitoring, cost/latency tradeoffs, and failure handling
• Ideally has a background in Machine Learning / Data Science
• Has worked in a more experimental or fast-moving environment (startup-like, high iteration speed)
• Familiarity with common LLM tooling (OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, embeddings, vector DBs, orchestration frameworks, etc.)
• Experience with developer-focused products or platforms
• Product mindset: You care about outcomes, not just outputs, and design with merchants, shoppers, and developers in mind.
• Collaborative spirit: Open to learning from and co-building with peers inside and outside Shopware.
• Product engineer mindset: You care about merchant outcomes, not just technically elegant solutions.
• Learn-by-building bias: You prefer spinning up a prototype to reading documentation, then document what you discover.
  

This is what we offer you:

• Be part of a strategic moonshot at Shopware and shape what's next in commerce.
• Access to dedicated AI budget, tools, and the freedom to move at startup speed.
• Company Culture: Open culture with flat hierarchies, where individual initiative is encouraged.
• Employment Contracts: Permanent positions that offer long-term security.
• Flexibility: Flexible working hours and options for mobile work and full-remote contracts.
• Equipment: Freedom to choose your preferred work hardware.
• Onboarding: Well-structured onboarding with support from a personal "buddy."
• Work Environment: An inspiring environment with dedicated colleagues and a dynamic community.
• Development Opportunities: Diverse opportunities for personal growth and development.
• Additional Benefits: Attractive perks such as company pension plans, health programs, and regular team events.
• ... and much more!

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