Description
ShipMonk is seeking an AI & Data Engineer to join their team in Prague. As an AI-first builder, you will be responsible for finding opportunities to apply AI across various business teams, building solutions end-to-end, and enabling colleagues to leverage AI.
Responsibilities:
- Identify AI opportunities in business teams and turn them into scoped projects
- Build and deploy apps and automations using AI coding tools
- Develop pipelines from business systems into Snowflake and model clean data layers in dbt
- Build LLM features on that data, including RAG, agents, and assistants
- Drive AI enablement across the organization
- Experiment with new AI tools and implement effective solutions
Requirements:
- 3+ years of hands-on engineering experience in data, software, or AI
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Experience with analytical warehouses (Snowflake or similar) and orchestrators (Airflow or similar)
- Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical colleagues
- AI-first approach, with familiarity with tools like Claude Code or Cursor
- Deployed apps built with AI tools to production, with security, monitoring, and real-user usage
- Built at least one data pipeline and data model relied upon by others
Nice to Have:
- Experience with dbt in production
- Familiarity with Pydantic AI, Langfuse, or similar AI tooling
- Knowledge of TypeScript for simple front ends
- Experience with n8n, Zapier, or MCP integrations
Benefits:
- Opportunity to build a new AI domain from the ground up with visible impact
- Short path to leadership with few management layers
- Access to real data at scale across 2,500+ people in five countries
- Time to experiment with new AI tools
- Office in Karlín with a small senior team