[Hiring] Software Engineer @Lovely Systems

Role Description

We want to strengthen our team and are therefore looking for someone with experience. Writing code by hand is no longer the job. Understanding what gets built is. If you see AI as an opportunity rather than a threat, read on.

We look for builders: people who get their satisfaction from what gets built, not from typing the code. AI amplifies existing expertise. The more you understand, the better the results you get from agents.

• Orchestrate agents to build software, and write skills for them
• Work test-driven
• Run what you build: deploy, monitor, keep it healthy
• Work across the whole ecosystem, e.g. Microservices, Kubernetes, Backend, Frontend; not necessarily all at once
• Keep re-optimising how things are built, and automate wherever you can

Qualifications

• You bring solid software engineering experience.
• You understand the inner workings of what is produced.
• You love TDD.
• You feel responsible for what you build, in production too.
• You are fluent in English, our team language.
• You are open source affine.
• It's ok for you if you can't use Windows.
• Experience orchestrating agents and writing skills for them is a plus.

Requirements

These technologies appeal to you:

• AI agents: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini; chat interfaces to agents: e.g. cc-connect
• Backend: Kotlin, Micronaut, jOOQ, Gradle; Python; Rust
• Data: PostgreSQL, CrateDB, Kafka
• Web frontend: React, TypeScript
• Mobile and TV: Jetpack Compose Multiplatform, React Native, Swift
• Identity management: Keycloak
• Media: transcoding, petabyte-scale storage and delivery
• Cloud: DigitalOcean, AWS, OVH, Hetzner
• Infrastructure and operations: Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus; GitOps with ArgoCD, Kustomize
• Code and collaboration: Git, GitHub

Benefits

• Flexible location: remote anywhere close to ±2h Vienna time, at our office in Dornbirn, or a combination of both
• A small, agile, English-speaking team, with members based in Austria, Hungary, Italy and Malta
• Support for your professional development: conferences, workshops and online courses
• Team events in person twice a year
• Room to experiment with new technologies
• State-of-the-art hardware (e.g. MacBook), which you may also use privately
• Your work will be used daily by thousands of users

Company Description

AI is not a tool we bolted onto an existing process — we rebuilt our delivery pipeline around it. Since February 2026 our whole team works agentically: story, planning, implementation, tests, review. Production code is written almost entirely by agents. We decide what gets built, in which architecture and under which conventions — and we stay accountable for what lands in the codebase.