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Software Engineer

Ultimate.ai

Ultimate.ai

Software Engineering
Copenhagen, Denmark
Posted on Mar 13, 2025

Job Description

Zendesk’s people have one goal in mind: to make Customer Experience better. Our products help more than 145,000 global brands (AirBnb, Uber, JetBrains, Slack, among others) make their billions of customers happy, every day.

We're looking for a well-rounded Software Engineer to be part of our efforts to use AI in providing the world's best customer service. We have a huge amount of knowledge about how our customers solve issues for their customers. At the same time, we are building a Knowledge Hub that ingests and processes content from multiple sources, fully integrated with our Customer and Employee Service offerings. Conversational AI agents can use this knowledge to solve problems better and faster, including taking actions on behalf of customers, supervised by human agents.

This is where you come in. We're standing up a new team to increase our capability in this field, and so along with your team, you will have a massive impact on how this initiative evolves. You will join an organization with a mission to disrupt the Knowledge generation and retrieval space, powering all Zendesk AI experiences.

What you’ll be doing

  • Delivering AI-powered capabilities to our customers at Zendesk scale.

  • Working closely with Product, Management and the rest of Knowledge engineering to define the scope of features and implementation approach.

  • Building the next generation of AI-powered services and products.

  • Actively collaborating in evolving the workflow and processes together with the members of the team.

  • Supporting our deployed services to ensure a high level of stability and reliability.

  • Pairing with more experienced colleagues and learning from each other.

What you bring to the role

Basic Qualifications

  • 2+ years developing server-side applications in Ruby and/or NodeJS.

  • Experience with LLM integrations and AI feature implementations.

  • Experience implementing systems that serve content at web scale with high availability guarantees.

  • Good proficiency in understanding and querying data (SQL).

  • Sound understanding of architecture and software design patterns for server-side and web domains.

  • Experience with provisioning and deploying services with a cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure).

  • Great communication skills, both written and verbal.

  • Collaborative and growth mindset along with the desire to continue your ongoing learning and development.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 2+ years developing web applications ideally with React or Typescript

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or related field.

  • Experience working on high throughput messaging systems like Kafka.

  • Experience using monitoring/alerting to ensure the reliability of a system.

  • Contributor or owner of open source projects.

Tech Stack

  • Our code is written in Ruby, TypeScript and React.

  • Our servers live in AWS.

  • Our services interface through Kafka, REST and GraphQL on top of Istio.

  • Our data is stored in S3, RDS MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and Aurora.

  • Our services are deployed to Kubernetes using Docker.

Where We Work

We're rapidly growing our teams in Copenhagen, Denmark and Krakow, Poland. We have exciting next-generation AI-powered products that are already in use by customers in the banking and finance area, online and offline retailers, and even national postal services. You will work with a driven team, passionate about delivering the right experience to end-users using sophisticated data ingestion and retrieval technology.

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Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.