Staff/Lead Software Developer (AI Agents & Integrations)

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential developer tools organization seeking a Staff or Lead Software Developer to drive AI agent integration and AI-powered development workflows. This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role—you'll spend the majority of your time prototyping, implementing, and validating AI features while shaping technical direction through engineering.

In this role, you will:

• Shape and deliver AI-powered features for C++ development workflows and tooling
• Design architecture for AI integrations, agent tools, and language-specific AI capabilities
• Build practical benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for AI-assisted development scenarios
• Prototype and validate new AI workflows, including debugging, code understanding, refactoring, and project navigation
• Collaborate with product managers, ML engineers, QA, and stakeholders to deliver the roadmap
• Work closely with AI, ML, and product teams to help define AI strategy for the C++ ecosystem
• Evaluate and prioritize AI initiatives, bringing new ideas aligned with broader organizational strategy
• Contribute hands-on to technical design, software architecture, and implementation in a large, mature codebase
• Help define a technical roadmap for AI agent and tool integrations in C++ development workflows
• Build trust and alignment across engineering, AI, product, QA, and ML organizations

Example technical challenges include: making coding agents more effective with large C++ codebases, integrating debugging and code navigation into AI-assisted workflows, evaluating AI-powered experiences in real-world scenarios, defining what capabilities AI agents should access inside an IDE, and creating better environments for developers collaborating with AI tools.

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• Significant software engineering experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or similar senior technical role
• Strong experience with Kotlin, Java, or other JVM technologies, or the ability to quickly become productive in a JVM-based codebase
• Experience building AI-powered products, developer tools, coding assistants, agents, or LLM-based workflows
• Strong understanding of how modern coding agents operate, including tool calling, context management, MCP, and evaluation techniques
• Track record of driving technical direction in ambiguous and rapidly evolving areas
• Strong product instincts and ability to balance innovation with practical delivery
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence without formal authority

Nice to have:

• Experience with C++ development workflows, compilers, debuggers, language tooling, or developer productivity products
• Experience with IDE internals, language servers, code analysis, refactoring systems, or static analysis
• Experience leading small teams or acting as a technical lead
• Experience working on AI-native developer products

This role is based in Berlin, Munich, or remote within Germany.

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your application and conduct an initial screening to understand your background and technical experience. If there's a strong mutual fit, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please note that all applications must come through Get A Job.ai—do not contact the client directly, as we are managing this search exclusively.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience level and the client's established ranges for this senior technical role.

Equal Opportunity
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