Founding Engineer
About The Role
This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI startup building purpose-built automation tools for the freight forwarding industry. You'll sit at the intersection of customer engagement and hands-on development, helping shape both the product and the company's technical direction from the ground up.
What You'll Do
Hybrid — Berlin, Germany. Visa sponsorship is available.
This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI startup building purpose-built automation tools for the freight forwarding industry. You'll sit at the intersection of customer engagement and hands-on development, helping shape both the product and the company's technical direction from the ground up.
What You'll Do
- Lead customer conversations and translate insights directly into product features and technical strategy.
- Design and build full-stack applications while advancing the product's AI capabilities.
- Transition prototypes and demos into scalable, production-ready systems.
- Contribute to shaping the product roadmap, technical architecture, and overall company direction.
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.
- Full-stack development experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React on the frontend, and Python on the backend.
- Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.
- Proven track record taking products from MVP to production-grade scale.
- Comfortable leading customer conversations and translating feedback into clear product requirements.
- Experience working in startup or early-stage environments.
- Familiarity with vector databases or semantic search implementations is a plus.
Hybrid — Berlin, Germany. Visa sponsorship is available.