Senior Fullstack Engineer

Hire Location (we can only hire for this role in the following countries): United Kingdom | Ireland | The Netherlands 

Everyone’s racing to build AI. Workera exists for the 8 billion people who have to work alongside it.

While the world’s attention is on creating new tools, someone has to solve the other side of the equation: the humans. The workforce is going through the biggest transformation in a generation and most organizations are navigating it blind, without the data to understand what their people can actually do, where the gaps are, or how to close them fast enough.

That’s what we build. Workera’s skills intelligence platform is the critical infrastructure for the AI era. It’s the layer that lets organizations understand, mobilize, manage, and develop their talent with precision. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and powered by proprietary AI agents, we’re the company helping the world’s largest organizations not just survive the transition to AI, but lead it.

We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer whose heart is in the backend — someone excited to architect and own the systems that power our AI-native platform, built on Elixir/Phoenix. You’ll join small, autonomous project teams (2–3 people) that take full ownership of a feature from scoping and prototyping through to rollout and user feedback, with the depth to contribute across the stack and the instinct to lead from the backend. AI fluency isn’t optional here — you will use agentic coding and AI agents as a core part of how you work and build.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

As Workera scales its AI-native platform to serve global enterprise customers, we need senior engineering talent who can own critical backend systems end-to-end. This role exists to add to our EMEA engineering team, bringing someone with depth and ownership  — shipping high-stakes, platform-critical features while advancing our AI-first engineering culture.

YOUR TEAM

You’ll join a cross-functional team operating at the intersection of generative AI, enterprise software, and talent transformation. Your immediate engineering team consists of four engineers, supported by a product designer, product manager, and engineering manager, all based in the EMEA region. The team values deep work and async communication — with only a few regular touchpoints each week — so you’ll have plenty of uninterrupted time to build.

WHAT YOU’LL OWN

This isn’t a list of tasks. These are the outcomes you’re accountable for:

• Architect and own backend systems that are robust, performant, and built to scale with a growing enterprise customer base
• Lead full projects end-to-end — owning scoping, architecture, build, and rollout — within a small autonomous team
• Ship AI-powered product features using agentic coding workflows and LLM integrations as a core part of how you build
• Identify and drive cross-team technical initiatives that advance Workera’s AI-first engineering organization
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues throughout the full stack with speed and confidence
• Contribute on the frontend (Phoenix + React) when needed, bringing a full-stack perspective to backend-led ownership

HOW YOU’LL RAMP

We don’t expect you to figure it out alone. Here’s what great looks like at each stage:

First 30 Days — Learn the Machine

• Immerse yourself in Workera’s platform, customers, and the problems we’re solving. You’ll shadow key workflows and understand how AI is embedded in day-to-day operations across teams
• Get fully up to speed with our development process and begin using AI tools and agentic coding workflows to learn and contribute to the codebase

By 90 Days — Ship Something Real

• Own your first meaningful deliverable and demonstrate end-to-end execution
• Be fully up to speed with our development process and using AI tools and agentic coding workflows to learn about and contribute to the codebase
• Deliver a project in a small team that touches every relevant part of the codebase, and be ready to troubleshoot production issues throughout the stack

By 6 Months — Multiply Your Impact

• Operate with full autonomy in your domain; your team relies on