
Senior Lead AI Software Developer – Forward Deployed Engineer
Kyndryl
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Muenchen • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Senior
Tech Stack
DockerKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPythonRabbitMQ
About the role
- Designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge AI software solutions
- Allocating work directly to high-impact sales pursuits and active AI client projects
- Demonstrating the value of technology by delivering code that solves complex problems
- Applying strong software design principles to ensure innovations are scalable and reliable
- Developing and maintaining standardized toolsets that enable agents within agentic frameworks to interact with external systems
- Architecting solutions, testing the code, and implementing the MCP (Model Context Protocol), APIs, and message brokers for microservice integration
- Ensuring all components are documented, unit-tested, and deployed via modern CI/CD and containerization pipelines
- Providing work estimates for assigned development work and guiding features and functional objectives
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience working as a software engineer with a focus on AI and rapid prototyping
- Expert coding skills in Python with a deep understanding of software design patterns, debugging, and testing methodologies
- Proven expertise in core AI technologies and building tooling for state-of-the-art agentic frameworks
- Demonstrated experience with API development, Message Brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and Microservices integration
- Knowledge of architecture design regarding modern agent-based systems (including MCP implementation)
- Experience with modern DevOps practices, version control (Git), and containerization (Docker & Kubernetes)
- Ability to translate complex functional requirements into scalable, reliable software components
Benefits
- Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter – wherever you are in your life journey.
- Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more.
- Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations.
- Kyndryl invests heavily in you, wanting you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Pythonsoftware design patternsdebuggingtesting methodologiesAPI developmentMessage BrokersMicroservices integrationarchitecture designDevOps practicescontainerization
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationguiding featureswork estimation