Senior AI Agent & Platform Engineer

# Think Data Be Smart #

About Us: DataSmart is a Portuguese company, positioning itself as a consulting company of excellence, with over 20 years of existence. We are specialized in Technologies and Information Systems services for the Portuguese and International markets. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of involvement, experience, and excellence.

Join our team as a Senior AI Agent & Platform Engineer (Lisbon, Braga, or Coimbra (Hybrid – 1 day/week on-site)!

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build agentic development workflows, tools, and automation across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Develop, deploy, and integrate AI agents in production environments, including orchestration, tool usage, MCP servers, and context engineering.
• Implement evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and quality checks to ensure reliable and consistent AI-generated outputs.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and internal developer tooling.
• Integrate AI-powered workflows with enterprise systems, including Jira, source control platforms, and CI/CD tools.
• Improve engineering efficiency, system reliability, and overall developer experience.
• Take ownership of complex technical challenges, evaluate alternative solutions, and independently drive implementation.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including senior or lead-level responsibilities.
• Proven hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents in real-world production environments. Experience limited to proof-of-concepts or theoretical knowledge will not be sufficient.
• Strong expertise in AI agent orchestration, MCP, and evaluation frameworks.
• Solid background in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript. Familiarity with Kotlin, Go, or Rust is a plus.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience developing internal developer platforms, CLIs, or workflow engines.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end SDLC and developer productivity practices.
• Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools in day-to-day software development.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, technical ownership, and the ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision.
• Fluency in English at C1 level or above.
• Must be currently residing in Portugal and available to start within 30 days, ideally sooner

At DataSmart, you will have the opportunity to integrate into a solid company and participate in projects of high recognition, nationally and internationally, with an appealing technological environment and career progression.

Excellence in the way to the future!

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