As an AI Software Engineer at the Digital Innovation & Analytics department, you will join the AIRCAT & People Analytics Team (AI Risk Compliance Team). You will work in a multidisciplinary Scrum team where you play a key role in strengthening the team’s software engineering capabilities while automating business processes and building data products that inform and drive decision-making, such as models, dashboards, and AI solutions.

You will contribute to bringing a strong engineering mindset into the team—improving code quality, scalability, and maintainability—while working across the following domains: Compliance, Non-financial Risk, Financial Risk, Internal Control, and HR.

You are driven by curiosity and stay ahead of the latest AI developments. You love exploring how new capabilities can be applied in practice, translating them into meaningful product improvements, and helping colleagues understand and use them effectively.

Join the team and help shape the future of Wealth Management by combining data, AI, and robust software engineering practices.

Your talents

“Passionate about innovation, technology and collaborative”, this is how we can best describe you in the position of AI Software Engineer. Talents that you use to continuously improve the digital experience of our users.  

We are seeking a skilled and experienced AI Software Engineer proven experience building solid end‑to‑end client‑facing products and can help move from POCs to production-grade solutions, with a focus on reliability and maintainability. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in python and Angular (or any UI framework), as well as hands-on experience with Azure and Azure DevOps. Experience in .NET is a strong plus.

You bring a rare combination of front-end, back-end and applied AI skills, and you know how to use them to turn complex challenges into practical, user-friendly solutions. You thrive on working with data engineers and data scientists and helping them embrace a software engineering mindset. You enjoy coaching and training others, sharing best practices, and enabling teams to continuously improve their engineering skills and ways of working.

You also have experience with:

Software engineering

• 3–5 years of experience building applications, with strong hands-on experience in Python and TypeScript.

• Experience with .NET is a strong plus.

• Experience with Azure and Azure DevOps, including automated build and release pipelines.

• Experience with Databricks is a plus.

• A practical mindset: you like writing clean, maintainable code that works in real-life environments.

Front-end development

• Solid experience with Angular.

• Good working knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, HTML5 and CSS.

• Ability to build responsive, user-friendly interfaces for data-rich applications.

Back-end and APIs

• Strong experience developing and integrating RESTful APIs, with a preference for hands-on experience in .NET.

• Comfortable connecting front-end applications, back-end services and external systems.

Applied AI 

• Experience building applications or prototypes with LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini.

• Familiarity with LLM concepts such as prompting, tool calling, structured outputs and evaluation.

• Curious about new AI developments and eager to turn ideas into practical solutions.

• When someone says “Responses” or “Completions”, you know they’re probably not talking about customer satisfaction surveys.

How you work

• Good command of English, both spoken and written.

• Naturally curious, self-motivated and eager to learn.

• Comfortable experimenting, asking questions and sharing ideas with the team.

• You enjoy being given an ambitious goal and figuring out how to get there, combining your skills in front-end, back-end and applied AI to turn ideas into practical, valuable solutions.

Move ahead at Van Lanschot Kempen

Investing in a more future-oriented, sustainable, and data-driven way with various clients. Both nationally and internationally. With nearly 300 years of experience, we make this ambition a reality at Van Lanschot Kempen. We do this with some 2,300 colleagues in various fields of expertise.

As part of the AIRCAT & People Analytics Team (AI Risk Compliance Team), you will work on data and AI solutions that help Van Lanschot Kempen stay in control of privacy and other non-financial risks. The team combines data engineering, analytics and AI to build practical tools for Non-Financial Risk & Risk  Management, Internal Control, HR and Compliance. We work closely with stakeholders, turn feedback into improvement and focus on robust, responsible solutions that can stand up to regulatory scrutiny. 

The Digital Innovation & Analytics department is a start-up like environment within Van Lanschot Kempen; a union of two specialised financial boutiques and the oldest independent financial institution in the Netherlands. This means a work environment which offers both; the cool and ambitious character of a start-up combined with the solid benefits of a large company. 

An organisation's degree of innovation and agility also depends on the diversity of its workforce. Our differences make us stronger together. We promote an inclusive work environment where all colleagues feel at home. With us, you can be yourself. And we are proud of that. 

Curious about the stories of colleagues and how they experience working at Van Lanschot Kempen? Go to  Podcasts and find out more!

That's what we do! The fact is, if you add value, you can expect the same from us in return. A good work-life balance with our 'hybrid way of working' is a good example of this. As an AI Engineers you will also be given: 

• A gross monthly salary between €5.000 and €7.000, compatible with your knowledge and experience. 

• In addition to the aforementioned basis salary, a flexible budget of 19.47% of your gross salary (containing a 13th month, 8% holiday allowance & 7 extra legal leave days) You can utilize this by buying a bike, monthly gym membership, but also to save up for a sabbatical! It’s also possible to get the full budget paid out at any moment in the year;

• A MacBook or Dell with i9 processor and iPhone.

• Flexible working hours; you come to the office for team meetings or brainstorming sessions. twice a week and work from home the other days.

• Training opportunities and the possibility to attend conferences.

• An excellent pension scheme.

• Up to 2 months of working from abroad per year. You can extend your family visit or holidays by working remotely.

• The possibility to exchange free national holidays for religious holidays.

• Co-working/co-living opportunities with your team (we would love to tell you more about this).

• Weekly technical knowledge sharing sessions, yearly hackathons along colleagues and clients and a monthly get-together with your whole department, to share and have fun!

And we have many other employment benefits ready for you. Discover all the benefits of working at Van Lanschot Kempen.