Senior Software Engineer – Agentic AI (M/F/D)

Your mission

Help us make agentic AI a reliable part of how we create, manage, and deliver learning content at bettermarks. You’ll build agentic workflows and shared tools that support our content and engineering teams-from preparing and generating content to making it available reliably in our learning platform.

Your responsibilities:

• Build agentic content workflows: Develop solutions that support the preparation, generation, and organization of learning content, working closely with content experts to meet educational and quality requirements.
• Support content workflow management: Improve how content moves through creation, review, publication, and updates, with clear handovers, visible progress, and effective handling of exceptions.
• Enable scalable content delivery: Build and improve the services and processes that make learning content reliably available in the product, with attention to performance and the experience of teachers and students.
• Create shared AI tooling: Give teams the tools, context, and integrations they need to use agents effectively in their daily work, and help colleagues adopt useful approaches.
• Develop agentic delivery pipelines: Explore how agents can support software delivery, connecting agentic coding to CI/CD workflows, automated tests, and appropriate review.
• Make agent performance visible: Establish review, evaluation, and monitoring practices, and use the results to improve the reliability and quality of agentic workflows over time.

Your profile

You combine strong software engineering foundations with practical experience applying AI agents to substantial software projects.

• Demonstrated expertise in agentic coding, with a track record of applying AI agents to large-scale software engineering challenges.
• Hands-on experience with automating code reviews and enforcing quality standards in human-in-the-loop systems.
• Deep understanding of agentic workflows, including the ability to build custom tooling and strategies for agent evaluation and testing.
• A solid understanding of system architecture and the ability to reason technical decisions across a wider system.
• Strong backend development and database expertise, with a solid understanding of event-sourcing fundamentals.
• Experience with test-driven development (TDD), behaviour-driven development (BDD), and reliable software delivery with CI/CD.
• Experience working across the stack, including frontend fundamentals with the ability to break down complex initiatives into individual tasks.
• Experience in both fast-moving and enterprise environments, with the judgement to adaptyour approach.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of machine learning, from fundamentals to deeper expertise.
• Advanced frontend development skills.
• Deeper expertise in messaging systems.
• Experience with knowledge graphs and their practical applications.

Why us?

At bettermarks, you help build a product with real educational impact, empowering students in grades 4-12 to succeed at school. Our mission: to make individualized support easier for teachers and to provide students with an intuitive and effective learning experience.

You can expect:

• An international team of developers, educators, and digital experts.
• A centrally located workplace in the heart of Kreuzberg with excellent public transport connections.
• Home office days and flexible working hours.
• Collaboration in an open team with flat hierarchies.
• 28 vacation days with additional 2 days (Xmas Eve and NY Eve) off
• Enjoy unlimited travels with our Employer-subsidized Germany Ticket (Deutschland Job Ticket) for nationwide public transport
• Stay healthy with our subsidized Urban Sports Club membership for fitness and wellbeing
• We offer a corporate pension schema
• Get corporate discounts on hundreds of products of top brands