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Smallpdf

Developer Relations Engineer

Smallpdf

Developer Relations Engineer enhancing PDF technology. Building practical solutions for document workflows using AI and helping developers solve real-world problems.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
GoJavaScriptOpen SourcePythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Create hands-on samples and working demos that demonstrate how to solve real document workflow problems with Pdftools technology
  • Go beyond samples to build small applications and prototypes that make our technology tangible before installation
  • Document your work through technical blog posts, walkthroughs, and architecture deep dives
  • Compare approaches through real experiments (e.g. OCR vs vision models vs structured extraction) and publish what you find
  • Test LLMs, vision-language models, and agentic systems applied to documents
  • Develop clear technical perspectives on when AI improves document workflows and where deterministic processing still wins, and publish those opinions publicly
  • Use AI coding tools (e.g. coding agents, LLM-assisted prototyping) to build and iterate quickly
  • Contribute meaningfully in spaces like GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, and developer forums
  • Run webinars, live coding sessions, and architecture deep dives
  • Attend and speak at relevant developer events
  • Share regular insights with product, marketing, and documentation strategy
  • Act as an early signal system for where developer needs are heading

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 3–5 years of software development experience
  • Genuine curiosity about the problems your audience is trying to solve. You follow developer conversations, notice recurring patterns, and find ways to be useful before anyone asks.
  • Satisfaction from pulling apart an SDK, finding its edges, and building something unexpected with it. Demos are a byproduct of that curiosity, not the starting point.
  • Hands-on experience with AI systems including LLMs, vision-language models, RAG pipelines, or document AI workflows. You have real opinions about where they work and where they fall short.
  • Strong prototyping ability across:
  • - Python (data workflows, backend logic)
  • - JavaScript/TypeScript (frontend or SDK integrations)
  • Established workflows with AI coding tools and agents
  • The ability to articulate clear technical opinions based on the experiments you run and comfort publishing those opinions publicly
  • The communications chops to explain complex ideas in a way that feels peer-to-peer, not instructional
  • Nice to Have’s:
  • - Prior experience with document processing, PDF libraries, or OCR systems; you already understand the domain this role operates in
  • - Familiarity with compliance-driven industries such as insurance, banking, or government; you understand why accuracy and reliability are non-negotiable in these workflows
  • - Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects
  • - Background in developer tools, API-first companies, or SDK-focused products

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 30 vacation days—yep, you read that right—that you can take whenever you need them.
  • 16 weeks parental leave—100% of your salary—for all new parents
  • Possibility of a Phantom stock option plan - PSOP (Conditions apply).
  • A well-being budget of up to 2,000 CHF every year that can be used for training and development (plus days off for courses or training) and for physical and mental well-being purposes.
  • Internal knowledge sharing & external coaching to further develop your professional and social skills.
  • Hack days to challenge you and your team, plus build amazing things.

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptAI systemsLLMsvision-language modelsRAG pipelinesdocument AI workflowsprototypingSDK
Soft Skills
curiosityproblem-solvingarticulation of technical opinionscommunicationpeer-to-peer explanationcreativitycollaborationinsight sharingpublic speakingcommunity engagement