Staff AI Engineer

About Kiwi.com
Kiwi.com is a leading global travel-tech company headquartered in the Czech Republic. Our innovative algorithm enables users to find better route options and prices other search engines can’t see, daily performing billions of price checks across 95% of global flight content. Are you bold, bright and curious? Join a global business that’s still got a start-up heart.

About our Platform team
Our Platform team is at the forefront of Kiwicom's AI transformation. Our vision is to integrate AI agents into the daily workflow of our employees - enhancing productivity, fostering innovation and improving customer satisfaction.
We are pioneering the future of productivity by: - Creating a powerful Agent Hub: a centralized library with a diverse range of pre-built, customizable agents for various use cases (e.g, code review, content generation data analysis and business intelligence).- Establishing a Tool Hub: a collection of AI-powered tools and resources (e.g., AI-enabled IDEs) designed to empower teams across the organization.- Driving Meaningful Automation: we aim to automate repetitive tasks, freeing up time for innovation and impact.

What you will do

• Shape the future of AI at Kiwi.com by designing and developing robust, scalable platforms and intelligent agents that solve real challenges across software engineering, product management, and business operations.
• Drive AI strategy and architecture in a cross-functional environment, partnering with Staff and Principal engineers to align AI initiatives with long-term technical and business goals.
• Experiment with cutting-edge technologies—from large language models to agentic systems—and turn them into high-impact tools like coding agents, support agents or product manager agents.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, data science, and leadership to surface opportunities for automation, augmentation, and smarter tooling.
• Guide adoption and AI literacy across a 250+ engineering organization through mentorship, enablement and building a strong tooling ecosystem.
• Prototype rapidly and iterate fast, turning ideas into testable concepts that demonstrate business value and user impact.
• Own key components of our Tool Hub, integrating AI-powered resources and AI-enabled IDEs to empower teams—while ensuring solutions are well-documented, maintainable, and production-ready.
• Communicate technical direction effectively to both deeply technical peers and non-technical stakeholders—including senior leadership.

What you will need

• Extensive experience in software engineering with a proven track record of designing, developing, and deploying complex, scalable and reliable systems.
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, JavaScript).
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) and agent-based systems—combined with a passion for innovation in this fast-evolving space.
• Experience and learnings with integrating AI models into production applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end technical initiatives, shaping long-term solutions from concept through execution.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior management.
• Proficiency in driving technology adoption and influencing engineering practices.
• Proven experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and senior technical leaders in a team-oriented environment.

We offer you

• We offer a hybrid and flexible work environment. A lovely, modern office in the center of Barcelona (Passeig de Gracia) with great views and amenities.
• Monthly entitlement of 200 Euro redeemable through Cobee. Cobee is a benefits platform offering a range of benefits (meals, transport, nursery, health insurance, and physical wellness) and flexible compensation. It also allows our employees to allocate up to 30% of their gross salary to the consumption of certain products or services, leveraging tax exemption.
• We also enjoy benefits, such as flexible working hours, 30 paid vacation days and sick days.
• Annual financial bonus based on company and individual performance.
• Flight vouchers to celebrate your Kiwi anniversaries.
• Relocation package (including visa transfer support).
• Dogs are welcome in our offices.

Interested? Join us and help us make travel more accessible to all. 
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