Data & AI Engineer

Build what most teams wouldn’t attempt.

We’re looking for a full-time Data & AI Engineer who thrives on hard problems, learns fast, and cares deeply about driving impact. You’ll engineer intelligent systems that blend data, intelligence, and real-world scale in a space that’s evolving fast. If you want to grow faster than ever, you’ll fit right in.

About Experiencegift

Experiencegift is home to Hotelgift, Flightgift, Traingift and Activitygift. Our gift cards can be redeemed for over 750,000 hotels, 400 airlines, 50,000 activities worldwide and train journeys all across Europe. We believe in experiences over things. Our mission is to enable our customers to spread joy by giving the gift of experiences that can be redeemed whenever, wherever. We’re a close-knit, international team of 50+ people across Amsterdam, London, Athens, and New York.

Winner of the FD Oryx Award (2023) for innovation and growth, and previously ranked #1 in the Deloitte Fast 50, we’ve proven that fast growth and deep craftsmanship can go hand in hand.

The Role

You’ll join a small, focused group of engineers building the foundations for our next generation of intelligent travel systems. Our team works at the intersection of backend systems, data architecture, and AI experimentation, where ideas turn into systems that will go on to impact millions. You’ll contribute across the stack, from data infrastructure and scalable APIs to AI-powered prototypes and integrations, blending solid engineering with fast learning and creative problem-solving.

Examples of what you’ll work on include:

• Translating ambitious concepts and ideas into scalable backend and data systems.

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining robust data flows and storage systems across a variety of databases.

• Prototyping and validating AI concepts, from quick experiments to production-ready integrations.

• Developing and evolving data-powered services in Python.

• Collaborating closely with other engineers to bring bold ideas to life.

Who You Are

We hire for intellect, ownership, and learning speed, not for long lists of frameworks and tools.

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Learn new technologies faster than most can explain them.

• Build software because you love creating things that work beautifully.

• Think deeply about architecture, abstraction, and efficiency.

• Communicate clearly and decisively.

• Deliver independently, even under ambiguity.

This role rewards intellect, discipline, and perseverance. You’ll be surrounded by people who expect a lot, both of themselves and each other.

Must-Have Requirements

We’re looking for someone who can contribute :

• Ability to design and reason about software.

• Strong analytical and learning ability: you pick up complex ideas fast and apply them meaningfully.

• Ownership and drive: you learn, build, and deliver independently.

• Fluency in English.

Everything else (frameworks, infrastructure, tools, etc.), you’ll learn here.

What You’ll Master Here

You don’t need to know all of this now. But you’ll work with, and learn deeply about:

• AI & Data Science: Recommender systems, natural language processing, machine learning, and data-driven experimentation.

• LLM-based systems: Model Context Protocol (MCP), LangChain, LangGraph, and AI-tools shaping the next era of travel systems.

• Backend Engineering: Programming (Python), Backend Frameworks (FastAPI), Object Relational Mappers (SQLAlchemy), Database Migrations (Alembic), among others.

• Large-scale databases: OLTP (PostgreSQL), OLAP (ClickHouse), key–value stores (Redis), document stores (MongoDB) and vector stores (PgVector, Pinecone), search systems (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch).

• Distributed task processing and orchestration (Celery, Redis).

• ETL/ELT pipelines and data modelling.

• Cloud Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.

Why join us

• Co-own architecture and software that will go on to power millions of users.

• Work in a small team with a large scope: every decision matters.

• A culture that rewards initiative, deep thinking, and craftsmanship.

• Opportunity for significant impact and fast growth.

• Freedom to come up with new ideas and initiatives.

• Lunch and snacks provided.

• Competitive compensation, top-tier equipment, and an annual international team trip.

• Young, friendly, ambitious, international team in Amsterdam, Athens, Cairo and London.

At Experiencegift we offer you the opportunity to work in a scale-up culture where everything you do matters. In our team, you will have the freedom to experiment and evolve your own projects. You will be part of an international, driven, award-winning team and will gain experience in a very fast-growing scale-up environment. By providing a creative, dynamic, and innovative environment, we empower our people for unlimited success.

Ready to make a real impact in a thriving company? Apply directly or visit our careers page for more details. We are looking forward to meeting you!

No agencies please, we manage our recruitment processes internally