Squirro · 3 months ago
Senior Software Engineer - AI & Search (Europe)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelSquirro is a company that builds solutions to bring structure and clarity to messy real-world data, focusing on AI and search. They are seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to design and improve AI components, solve complex problems, and collaborate with product teams to deliver scalable solutions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)InsurTechMachine LearningSoftware
Responsibilities
Engineer with purpose: Design, implement, and improve search and AI components powering our platform — where performance, scalability, and reliability really matter
Solve hard problems: Work across NLP, retrieval, generative AI, and distributed systems to build features that make messy data usable and valuable
Collaborate: Partner closely with product and fellow engineers — turning ideas into concrete solutions that work at scale
Keep it simple: Bring clarity to complexity. Cut through noise with clean designs, maintainable code, and practical solutions
Own it: Take responsibility from design to deployment, measuring and improving your work with the right metrics
Qualification
Required
Strong experience building and scaling backend systems — ideally search- or data-heavy and in python
Solid knowledge of Elasticsearch (or similar) and distributed systems fundamentals
Familiarity with NLP techniques, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or broader AI/ML concepts (or the curiosity to go deep fast)
A pragmatic mindset: you care about results, reliability, and simplicity, not just shiny tech
Comfort working in a collaborative, fast-moving environment where ideas quickly turn into production
Company
Squirro
Squirro is a software company that utilizes Augmented Intelligence to enhance decision intelligence.
Founded in 2012
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$15.5MKey Investors
BuildGroupFinch CapitalAriel Luedi
2022-02-24Private Equity· $4M
2017-12-08Series Unknown
2017-07-07Series B· $10M
Leadership Team
Dorian Selz
Co-Founder & CEO
Felix Hürlimann
Developer, Co-Founder
Recent News
2025-11-19
2025-09-25
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