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We exist to unleash the power of the self-employed - helping solopreneurs and micro-businesses thrive by doing what they're passionate about and removing the complexity of building lasting, successful businesses.

Jimdo started in 2007 when three school friends built a website builder in a Northern German farmhouse to help everyone build a presence online. Today, we're a profitable, remote-first company with 220+ people from 50+ nationalities working across 15+ countries. We've helped build over 36 million websites to get online across the world.

We're more than just a website builder. We're an AI-powered platform that helps self-employed people actually run and build successful businesses — from getting found online, winning customers and running their business with a peace of mind by knowing exactly what to do next to move forward.

At the heart of Jimdo is a strong belief in personalized, data-driven guidance. Our platform combines design, business tools, and an AI-powered core that turns real customer data into clear insights and next steps helping our customers focus on what moves their business forward.

As a Senior AI Fullstack Engineer, you'll join our AI Team to build Jimdo Companion—our intelligent AI assistant designed to become the trusted business partner for millions of entrepreneurs. Companion orchestrates multiple AI agents to automate business tasks, provide personalised recommendations, and help customers grow their businesses through proactive, AI-powered experiences.

You'll work across the full stack, designing scalable backend systems, building intuitive frontend experiences, and developing agentic AI workflows powered by large language models. This is a highly impactful senior individual contributor role where you'll help shape our AI platform, influence technical direction, and enable other product teams to build AI-powered experiences on top of the foundations you create. You'll report directly to the Engineering Manager, AI Team.

• Design and build the core systems powering Jimdo Companion, including agent orchestration, recommendation engines, and scalable APIs.

• Develop AI‑powered features that automate real business tasks and improve customer outcomes.

• Build high‑quality backend services and engaging frontend experiences using modern full‑stack technologies.

• Design, evaluate, and optimise LLM‑powered workflows, prompts, guardrails, and agent coordination.

• Build reusable AI platform capabilities that empower other engineering teams to create AI‑enabled products.

• Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data Analysts, and engineers to deliver customer‑centric solutions.

• Champion AI‑augmented software development by leveraging modern AI coding assistants and sharing best practices across the engineering team.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience in a senior or technical leadership capacity.

• Strong full‑stack expertise with Node.js, TypeScript, and React.

• Hands‑on experience building AI‑powered products using LLMs, prompt engineering, agentic workflows, or AI APIs that have reached production users. Preferably using the LangChain & LangGraph framework.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), and modern engineering practices.

• Experience using AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar to accelerate software development while maintaining engineering quality.

• Strong system design skills, product thinking, and the ability to quickly understand complex technical domains.

• Excellent collaboration skills and enthusiasm for working in a remote‑first, cross‑functional environment.

Inspiring Mission: At our core, we are driven by a meaningful mission - to empower solopreneurs and small businesses to succeed and to contribute to the sustainability and vibrancy of the communities they serve.

Flexibility and Trust: Our work environment thrives on flexibility and trust. We offer fully remote work set‑up with opportunities for in‑person collaboration. You can manage your working hours flexibly because we prioritize the results you deliver over the number of hours you put in.

An International Diverse Team: Our team is a mosaic of over 248 individuals hailing from 50+ different countries and working across 15+ diverse locations. We take pride in our openness and inclusivity, with an Employee‑led DEI Council and active ERGs that ensure everyone's voices are heard.

Continuous Growth and Career Development: We invest in your growth with company‑wide access to LinkedIn Learning and Hack Weeks, Deep Work Thursdays, conferences and access to technical eLearning platforms. From day one, you have the chance to contribute your ideas and create a meaningful impact. Our flat hierarchies and swift decision‑making processes provide an open platform for your career progression.

Competitive Benefits Package:

• Annual compensation reviews to ensure you're rewarded fairly.

• A remote office set‑up bonus to enhance your workspace.

• An employee assistance program, offering resources and counseling.

• Plus, a perk that keeps giving: up to three free Jimdo websites for your personal or professional projects that you get to keep forever.

Jimdo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means that we don’t discriminate based on race or ethnic origin, color, the language(s) you speak, where you (or your parents) are from, or whether or not you consider yourself to have a disability. Neither will your age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, or political opinions play a part in your application with us. Our diverse team values and celebrates the uniqueness of each individual. We embrace differences and believe that they enrich our organization, making us stronger and more innovative. Join us, and let's continue to create a workplace where everyone can thrive, regardless of background or identity.