About this role
AI Software Engineer (m/f/d)
Location: Vienna preferred (remote within Austria)
Salary: €70,000 – €85,000 gross/year
Team: ~20 people total, 2–3 Sr.Engineers, AI Agents
Reports to: Co-Founder & COO
Headcount: Company wide: 20 FTE, Tech Department: 2-3 Engineers
Your Mission:
Our customer is a Legal-tech B2B SaaS company that can protect any product on the internet (Remove.tech).
remove.tech is building the infrastructure to automatically detect and remove counterfeits, scams, and brand abuse across the internet.
Remove.tech is a bootstrapped B2B SaaS company from Vienna. In just 3 years, we grew from 0 to €1.2M ARR working with creators and global brands.
Now we’re looking for an AI-first engineer who wants to take real ownership and help us scale the product to the next level. This is not a “feature factory” role. You will shape how our AI systems, data pipelines, and infrastructure evolve.
Your First 6 Months
After 1 month
Understand the product, customers, and data flows
Dive into the existing architecture and pipelines
Talk to users and see real problems first-hand
After 3 months
Ship improvements weekly
Identify and implement quick wins
Build trust and start owning parts of the system
Contribute to how AI is used across the product
After 6 months
Own core parts of the architecture
Drive AI and backend decisions• Define how we scale the system for the next years
Your Responsibilities
Own and evolve backend services (crawlers, APIs, AI services)
Design systems for scale, speed, and reliability
Build and improve AI pipelines (LLMs, classification, clustering)
Turn messy, real-world data into structured insights
Improve code quality, testing, and monitoring standards
Work closely with founders, product, and customers
Help us hire and level up future engineers
Your profile
Strong backend experience (ideally C#/.NET, but not a must)
Comfortable with Node.js as service layer
Experience working with data-heavy systems
Hands-on experience with AI / LLMs / data pipelines
Solid understanding of system design and architecture
Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and messaging systems
Ownership mindset and decision-making ability
Clear communicator
Startup or scale-up experience is a plus
Tech stack (today):
C#/.NET, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, React/TypeScript
What you’ll get:
Core role in a fast-growing AI SaaS company
Direct impact on product and technical direction
Real ownership from day one
Exposure to complex problems (AI, crawling, large-scale data)
Remote-first setup (DACH)
Flat hierarchy, direct access to founders
Clear path towards Tech Lead
About Us pplwise supports leading, fast-growing companies across Europe in delivering on their growth plans. Our services include Recruiting as a Service & Executive Search specializing in the support of technology companies during their growth phases.
We work with publicly traded companies like Uber or JustEatTakeaway, Unicorns like Clark, TIER or Taxfix and countless start-ups and scale-ups funded by top venture capital funds like Sequoia Capital, HV Capital or Cherry Ventures.
pplwise was founded in 2021 and already operated in +20 countries across Europe with a team of +30 talented Talent Partners. Ambitious technology companies manage growth phases with pplwise.
Compensation: €80K – €120K • 0.5% – 5%
• €80K – €120K • 0.5% – 5%