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AI handles what can scale, while people bring experience and judgement where it matters.\nAs a Software Engineer, you will help build the product across the backend, frontend, and AI pipeline at the core of the platform. You will work directly with the CTO, who already has one successful exit, and learn first-hand how modern software is built in a clean, fast, AI-native environment.\nThis role is designed for someone early in their career who wants real responsibility and a steep learning curve. You will start with close guidance and progressively take on more independent ownership, with a clear path toward a senior engineering role.\n Position: Software Engineer\nSeeking an early-career Software Engineer with solid programming fundamentals, curiosity across the stack, and a strong desire to learn how production software is built.\nThe ideal candidate has 1-3 years of experience or is a recent graduate with strong projects, and combines technical curiosity with high self-motivation, a user-first mindset, and an AI-native approach to development.\nWhat you have built matters more than simply the number of years on your CV.\nResponsibilities\nProduct Development & Full-Stack Engineering\nShip features end-to-end, from backend development through to the user interface.\n\nWork across the stack, including React, Node/Express, Postgres, and AWS.\n\nStart with close guidance and progressively take on greater independence and ownership.\n\nWork closely with the CTO and grant team to build solutions based on real user problems rather than abstract tickets.\n\nBuild software with a user-first mindset, ensuring what you create works for real people.\n\nAI Development\nHelp build the platform's AI pipeline from week one.\n\nWork with prompt engineering, context management, and AI evaluations.\n\nGain hands-on experience with AI development and learn how AI-powered features are built and improved in production.\n\nUse AI-native development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor as part of your engineering workflow.\n\nProduction & Debugging\nTrace and fix bugs in the production environment.\n\nWork with tools including Sentry, CloudWatch, and Postgres.\n\nLearn how production systems work by investigating real issues and understanding their underlying causes.\n\nDevelop strong debugging and problem-solving skills through hands-on production experience.\n\nLearning & Engineering Growth\nWork closely with the CTO and receive direct technical mentoring.\n\nUse code reviews as a learning tool, incorporating feedback and progressively contributing feedback to others.\n\nTake increasing ownership of features and technical problems as your experience grows.\n\nDevelop toward independent feature ownership, with a clear path toward a senior engineering role.\n\nContribute to improving the time from starting a project to a finished, submitted application through reliable features, automation, and product improvements.\n\nRequirements\n1-3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, or recent university graduation with strong technical projects.\n\nWhat you have built matters more than simply the number of years of experience.\n\nSolid fundamentals in TypeScript and/or JavaScript.\n\nCuriosity and willingness to work across the full stack, including:\nReact\n\nNode / Express\n\nPostgres\n\nAWS\n\nStrong desire to learn how production software is built and operated.\n\nHigh self-motivation and the ability to dig into problems rather than wait for instructions.\n\nComfortable receiving feedback and using it to improve your technical skills.\n\nAI-native approach to software development, with familiarity using tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.\n\nUser-first mindset, with a focus on building software that works for real people.\n\nStrong curiosity, ownership, and willingness to take on increasing responsibility.\n\n Nice to Have\nFirst experience with AI tools or LLM APIs, including university or side projects.\n\nGerman language skills at B1 level or above. The product and customers are German-speaking, while the team works bilingually.\n\nA side project, open-source contribution, or other work built independently.\n\n Growth Path\nThis role is designed as a springboard for your engineering career.\nYou will start with significant mentoring and guidance from the CTO, then progressively move toward independent ownership of complete features and technical problems.\nThe goal is that, over time, you can ship independently, contribute to technical decisions, and take ownership of increasingly complex parts of the product, with a clear path toward a senior engineering role.\n What We Offer\nDirect mentoring from the CTO, who already has one successful exit and will work closely with you on your development.\n\nA steep learning curve across a modern technology stack, AI-native development, and real production systems.\n\nReal production ownership from day one, with increasing responsibility over time.\n\nFully remote work is possible.\n\nCompetitive entry-level salary and participation in company success.\n\nClear development path toward a senior engineering role.\n\n€2,000 annual professional development budget.\n\nOpportunity to work on a scalable SaaS product with clear market demand and genuine social impact.\n\nShort decision paths and direct collaboration with the leadership team.\n\nTeam events and optional workations.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5803,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":1,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"German","level":"All levels","optional":true}]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"South Africa","iso":"ZA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Recruiting & Staffing","IT Staffing & Staff Augmentation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-28T01:18:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":35,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":0.6,"p_active":0.729,"p_room":0.8,"age_days":50,"expected_fill_days":149,"reasons":["seen:37","win:early","crowd:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/globaltalentco-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/globaltalentco-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T08:57:20Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13302,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6439},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6439"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fglobaltalentco-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fglobaltalentco-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fglobaltalentco-software-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/globaltalentco-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fglobaltalentco-software-engineer"}]}