Full Stack AI Engineer Remote in Portugal

about the role

This is the first software engineering hire at Otonomee and a key role in building the company’s AI capability and platform. You will report to the CTO, with a dotted line to the Product Builder. You will design, build, and ship AI-powered applications end-to-end — spanning backend, data, APIs, and lightweight UI — while establishing the foundation of the Enterprise AI Platform on Azure. In the early phase, this role is highly hands-on. You will turn ambiguous business problems across multiple teams into working solutions using AI-native development tools. As the team grows, the role will evolve toward platform architecture, integrations, and technical leadership.

Why This Role

This is an early and high-impact founding engineering role in a company building its AI platform from the ground up. You will take ownership of how AI applications are designed, built, deployed, and scaled across a real CX client environment. You will work hands-on across the full stack — from backend and data to APIs and lightweight UI — shipping production-ready AI solutions end-to-end. With direct exposure to leadership, you will play a key role in shaping the technical foundation of the business while owning delivery from concept to production in a fast-moving, AI-native environment.

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What You`ll Be Doing

AI Application Development

• Build and ship end-to-end AI applications (backend, data, APIs, UI)
• Turn ambiguous problems into working software quickly
• Use AI-native tools to accelerate delivery
• Apply key AI patterns (RAG, agents, prompt engineering, evaluation)
• Build and scale the AI Platform on Azure (multi-region)
• Own core components: APIM, identity, networking, observability, data
• Establish CI/CD,IaC, testing, and deployment standards
• Integrate with internal and third-party systems (CRM, CX platforms)
• Work with tools like Zendesk, Genesys, Intercom, Microsoft 365
• Build APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems
• Embed GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2 (and others) into the platform
• Partner with Security/GRC on data protection and accesscontrol
• Partner with Product on roadmap and build-vs-buy decisions
• Document systems, architecture, and processes
• Monitor production systems and improve performance, cost, and reliability
• Proven experience shipping full-stack applications end-to-end
• Hands-on with AI/LLMs (e.g. Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic)
• Experience with RAG, vector databases, and agent-based systems
• Confident using AI-native dev tools to accelerate delivery
• Strong backend skills (Python, C#/.NET, or Node.js)
• Working frontend capability (React, Next.js, or similar)
• Experience with Azure and cloud architecture
• Familiar withIaCand CI/CD pipelines
• Experience i