AI Coach - Agentic Engineering at Mindera in Portugal

Description

At Mindera, we believe in building software that improves lives. As an Agentic Engineering Coach, you will help accelerate the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic software development practices across our engineering teams. Combining hands-on software development expertise with deep experience using AI tooling and modern workflows, you will have the following focus:

• Team Coaching & Enablement: Work directly with engineering teams to embed AI-assisted and agentic development practices into daily workflows. Coach teams on balancing engineering quality, security, and maintainability with AI-assisted development.
• Delivery & Productivity Optimization: Partner with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve delivery effectiveness and productivity through the use of AI tooling, automation, and agent orchestration.
• Prototyping & Architecture: Remain hands-on by building prototypes, examples, and reference implementations demonstrating effective agentic development patterns.
• Prompting & Validation Best Practices: Help engineers develop effective prompting, validation, and review techniques to ensure robust model outputs.
• Metrics & Impact Measurement: Help teams measure and understand the tangible impact of AI-assisted engineering practices on software delivery outcomes.
• Innovation & Standards Evolution: Contribute to the evolution of engineering practices, standards, and guidance. Stay current with emerging agentic development techniques and identify appropriate opportunities for adoption across the organization.

• At least 6 years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks and agentic development platforms.

• Experience working with MCP-based tooling and integrations.
• Experience creating reusable AI workflows, engineering accelerators, or developer productivity tooling.
• Experience helping teams adopt new technologies and engineering practices at scale, including running workshops, communities of practice, or technical enablement programmes.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Kafka or event-driven architectures.
• Experience working in large-scale digital, retail, or eCommerce environments.

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love. Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera. We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world. You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

Check out our and our ! Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil