AI Engineer - Senior Software Engineer — JVM / Platform

About Pelico

We are creating the factory of the future where disruptions are avoided, processes synchronized and value captured. Our factory operations management platform enables factory teams to be more agile and resilient in a world where supply chain disruptions occur every 16 minutes. Pelico empowers users to identify bottlenecks, avoid problems, and focus on innovation instead of fire-fighting. Since our foundation in 2019, we’ve partnered with industry leaders across aerospace, industrial equipment, and luxury watchmaking, revolutionizing factory operations in over 15 countries. Esteemed clients include Airbus, Safran, Cartier, Daikin, and Eaton.

Our Team

With a dynamic team of over 180 professionals across the US and Europe, Pelico is a melting pot of top-tier talent from Tech, Data Science, and Manufacturing domains.

Our collaborative environment fosters innovation and excellence, driving us to solve complex challenges and shape the future of manufacturing.

Our work has been recognized by Safran (Digital Transformation Award) and Microsoft (scale-up of the year).

We design a platform that handles high volumes, concurrent users, and complex workflows , while remaining modular, maintainable, and future-proof.

Your Role's mission:

Build the foundations of our platform from scratch — solving genuinely hard problems in planning algorithms, distributed systems and agentic capabilities, and turning them into elegant products that ship every day.

Your impact:

• Own systems end-to-end — design, ship, operate, on-call.

• Tackle real algorithmic and systems challenges: operational research, value-engineering, agentic workflows. No off-the-shelf answers.

• Ship to production daily inside a 3–4 person squad. PRs merge same-day. No staging gauntlet, no committees, no waterfall.

• Build the horizontal platform from the ground up — no legacy debt, no spaghetti to maintain.

• Set the technical bar for code taste, systems thinking and engineering rigor as the team scales.
  

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• 5–12 years building production software at companies that ship enterprise products (B2B SaaS, infrastructure, financial systems, large-scale platforms).

• Strong on JVM in production — Java 17+ or Kotlin.

• Solid foundations in distributed systems, async messaging, SQL, observability.

• Zero-to-one builder: you've owned a system from design to operations, not just contributed PRs.

• Self-directed: ambiguous problem in, working prototype out — without a clarification ticket.

• Uses AI tools as a force multiplier for shipping.

• Based in France with the right to work. Remote-friendly; hybrid available if you're near a hub.
  

Your interview experience:

• Recruiter screen — 30 min. Mission fit, motivation, comp alignment.

• Hiring manager call — 45 min. Deep dive on one past project of your choosing. We want the on-call story, the rollback, the customer call — not just the merge.

• Take-home (4h async, preferred) or live pair (90 min). Realistic problem. We look at working solution, trade-off reasoning, code cleanliness.

• Virtual loop — half day, 4 sessions. System design (deliberately under-specified), code review exercise, behavioral, team meet & values.