TL;DR

Backend Software Engineer (AI): Building and evolving core backend systems and APIs for dynamic content resolution and delivery at enterprise scale with an accent on system design, performance, and maintainability. Focus on designing scalable services handling billions of requests, implementing cache-aware execution pipelines, and ensuring operational reliability.

Location: Remote within Europe, based in Dublin, Ireland

Company

Contentful is a leading digital experience platform enabling personalized, AI-enhanced content delivery at scale for over 4,200 organizations worldwide.

What you will do

  • Design and build core backend systems for dynamic content resolution and delivery
  • Define and evolve APIs, schemas, and versioning strategies with long-term stability
  • Solve complex engineering and content modeling problems across multiple systems
  • Implement deterministic, cache-aware execution pipelines with strong performance guarantees
  • Develop on cloud platforms including AWS, CloudFlare, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
  • Own production systems including observability, debugging, and operational reliability

Requirements

  • Strong backend skills with system design, performance, and maintainability expertise
  • Experience maintaining and improving complex, long-lived production systems
  • Experience evolving APIs and data models used by multiple teams or customers
  • Product mindset with empathy for customers including content practitioners and developers
  • Ability to work effectively in ambiguity and make sound technical tradeoffs
  • Strong teamwork and communication skills
  • Must be based in Europe or able to work remotely within Europe

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with TypeScript, GraphQL, and serverless applications
  • Experience with declarative systems, data transformation pipelines, and cache-heavy architectures
  • Experience with content platforms, personalization, or similar systems
  • Familiarity with AI tooling and leveraging AI in daily work

Culture & Benefits

  • Stock options for full-time employees
  • Comprehensive healthcare covering 100% employee premiums and 85% for dependents
  • Fertility and family building benefits with reimbursable wallet
  • Generous paid time off including vacation, sick, compassion, education, and volunteer days
  • Company paid parental leave
  • Personal annual education budget and wellbeing stipend
  • Monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement
  • New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees