Backend Engineer - AI Agents (all genders) in Köln

• What You'll Be Working On
• Within the backend team, you're the go-to person for AI and work closely with Product.
• You further develop our AI agents and automation solutions such as Connect AI, from the agent loop and tool calling to context management.
• You help shape our AI architecture and make sure we can work flexibly with different LLMs.
• When it comes to quality, we rely on evals with real customer conversations and methods like LLM-as-a-judge.

You help expand this area so every new version gets measurably better.

• Through APIs, MCP tools and website crawling, you give our agents the knowledge and tools they need.
• What Makes You a Fit
• You have at least five years of backend experience, including one year building AI features based on language models that people use every day.
• Python is your tool of choice, and ideally you already know Django.
• You've built AI agents before and know context windows, tool calling and prompting from hands-on work.
• You've worked with RAG and vector databases yourself.
• You're familiar with evals, whether with Langfuse, Arize Phoenix, Lang Smith or something you built yourself.
• Libraries like Pydantic AI or Lite LLM are a plus.
• You follow what's happening in AI, try things out quickly and take ownership of your topics.
• You're fluent in German and English.
• What’s in It for You
• HEALTH & SPORTS
• 600 € health budget per year, including 24/7 medical advice — also for family members in your household
• Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership (20 € monthly contribution)
• DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH
• Learning budget for courses, books and conferences
• Free access to Udemy, Masterclass and language learning apps
• Leadership programmes such as "Next Gen" and "Effective Manager"
• TEAM & CULTURE
• Weekly FIKA, movie nights, book club and regular get-togethers and team events
• International summer party together with our colleagues in the Nordics

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Office-first setup: 3 days in our Cologne office at the Media Park, 2 days remote
• 360° view across Cologne from the 14th floor
• Workation within the EU
• Snacks, cereal bar and drinks in the office

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Company pension scheme via Zurich with a 30 % employer contribution
• Job ticket or mobility budget, plus free parking at the Media Park
• Corporate benefits
• 28 days of holiday, plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off
• Up to 5 days of special leave for important life events

About us

Automated where it makes sense. Personal where it counts.

• We are
• Lime Connect
• an AI-first company and one of the top software scale-ups in Cologne.

AI isn't an add-on for us, it's the core of what we build: our leading customer messaging solution for customer service, sales, and marketing combines AI agents, web chat, and mobile messaging, already automating the majority of all customer inquiries today.

As part of Lime Technologies, our Swedish parent company, we combine international perspectives with the drive of a company actively shaping its next stage of growth.

With us, you help shape things, not just execute them – with real ownership from day one, in a dynamic environment, and a culture that values results just as much as people.

Weekly fika included.