Your purpose at Kertos
As an AI Software Engineer at Kertos – the European Champion for Compliance Automation – you’ll play a key role in shaping how AI is embedded into our platform and product experience.
We turn compliance from a yearly fire drill into a continuous, low-friction product experience – and AI is at the heart of that transformation.
You’ll build AI-powered product features that help companies generate documentation, automate workflows, and interact intelligently with compliance systems. Working in a cross-functional squad, you’ll ship improvements weekly, shape product decisions, and directly influence how applied AI is used in modern compliance across Europe.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build AI-powered compliance experiences: Develop features that generate policies, automate documentation, and assist users through intelligent workflows.
- Work on applied AI, not research: Integrate and orchestrate LLMs into real product use cases that deliver immediate value to customers.
Make automation feel intelligent and reliable: Improve how our AI assistant and generative systems behave, ensuring accuracy, usability, and trust. - Own the process: Drive features from concept to delivery, shaping both technical implementation and product outcomes.
- Continuously improve what you build: Iterate on existing systems, refine outputs, and enhance performance over time.
- Shape engineering excellence: Contribute to improving developer experience, system quality, and delivery speed.
The skills, motivation, and mentality you should bring
- Proven track record as a Software Engineer (backend or fullstack)
- Strong experience with Python
- Experience building production-grade systems and APIs
- Interest in AI and applied LLM use cases (hands-on experience is a plus)
- Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and a passion for building impactful products
- Comfortable working in environments with evolving requirements and imperfect information
- Proactive mindset: you don’t just deliver tasks, you improve systems
Why Kertos
- You are Kertos: Don’t like something? Could be done better? You have the freedom to push things forward and contribute to making Kertos a great place to work
- Unique opportunity: Join the growing team of one of Europe’s most promising early stages companies and to work directly with our CTO Alex
- European funding in the millions: The EU has funded our AI research with a total of over 2 million euros
- Regular Feedback: We foster an open feedback culture and support your growth with regular 1-on-1 meetings
- Full Flexibility: Whether at the Berlin office, our Munich HQ or at your home office – we are flexible, and you'll be happy
- Keep growing: To boost your professional and personal growth, we provide you with a Personal Development Budget of 1.500€ per year
- Cutting Edge Technology: Leading VCs have invested in our vision to revolutionize how compliance measures are handled sustainably
- Mental Health: We've partnered with nilo to prioritize your well-being, offering personalized mental health support for all employees
- For Sports Enthusiasts: We subsidize your Wellpass membership for your physical fitness for a better work-life balance
- Steep learning curve: With us you get full responsibility from day 1, push topics forward independently and thus learn a lot
- Strong onboarding: No idea about compliance and its automation? No problem, we'll turn you into an expert and provide you with an onboarding buddy
- Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: We are a strong team that supports each other, and we also have a lot of fun together beyond work and across different locations
Sounds like you are the one we’ve been looking for?
Perfect, let's have a chat! Just send in your CV. We are excited to meet you soon.
In case you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our People & Culture team. We're happy to answer all your questions