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Staff Software Engineer

🗓️ Posted 2026-06-12 Milan Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary 5,833 EUR–7,500 EUR/mo (70,000 EUR–90,000 EUR/yr) 📊 Market 3,750 EUR–5,417 EUR/mo

About the Company

Accelerate your goals with Ancora. Ancora, a proud member of the Lindenwood Education System, is a leading workforce solutions provider addressing America's labor gaps through innovative and technology-driven educational programs. Ancora operates in four divisions: Ancora Academy , Ancora Education , Ancora High School , and Ancora Training . Ancora Academy offers online courses for personal or professional development to individual learners. Ancora High School, accredited by Cognia , provides adult learners the opportunity to complete a high school diploma in a highly flexible, self-paced, completely online format. Ancora Education offers technical education training programs specializing in healthcare, IT, business, transportation, and skilled trades through five private, post-secondary brands with 18 campus locations across the nation. Brands include: Arizona Automotive Institute (AAI), Berks Technical Institute (BTI), Miller-Motte College (MMC), Miller-Motte Driving Institute (MMDI), and South Texas Vocational Technical Institute (STVT ). Ancora Training offers workforce solutions, like CDL and other customizable training solutions, for corporate, community college, and government agency partners. Education Administration Programs Specialties: Workforce development, Educational technology, Career training programs, Labor market solutions, K-12 education, Adult education

Responsibilities

  • ● Milan, hybrid 3+2.
  • ● Fluent Italian is a must-have: we work closely with Italian accountants.
  • ● Who we are
  • ● You're the fourth hire on the technical team and the first with an explicit architecture mandate: you define the foundations we'll build on for the next 5 years.
  • ● The context
  • ● As a Staff Engineer you're the technical reference point for the team. You don't just write code - you define the rules of the game: how we model the domain, how we design APIs to be consumed by autonomous agents, how we guarantee isolation between tenants, how we capture every system decision for the audit trail.
  • ● The architectural challenges
  • ● Accounting domain modeling - double-entry, multi-currency, journal entry immutability, accrual-based tax state. Correctness is non-negotiable.
  • ● Agent-first API design - structured responses, explicit error boundaries, stable contracts an LLM can consume reliably. Not generic REST: APIs designed to be reasoned about by a machine.
  • ● Multi-tenant isolation at scale - zero context leakage across thousands of companies. RLS, credential scoping, tenant-aware middleware.
  • ● Event sourcing and audit trail - every accounting action is immutable, reversible only through counter-entry. The log is the truth.
  • ● Observability for AI - capturing the full decision context of every agentic action: input, output, reasoning, system state at the moment of the decision.
  • ● What we're looking for - must have
  • ● + years of backend engineering in production on complex systems
  • ● Documented experience of architectural ownership (you've made decisions that still hold today)
  • ● Python, Go, Java or similar statically-typed languages - real mastery, not familiarity