Founding Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Berlin

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

Join an early-stage freight technology team building AI-powered products for sea and air freight operations. This hands-on role combines customer engagement with full-stack engineering, helping shape product and technical direction while taking solutions from demos to production-ready systems.

What You'll Do

• Lead customer conversations and turn operational insights into product features and technical strategy.

• Design and build full-stack applications using the team's web and backend technologies.

• Advance AI capabilities through practical LLM patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.

• Move prototypes and demos toward scalable, reliable, high-quality production products.

• Make thoughtful architecture decisions suited to an early-stage environment.

• Help shape the product, technology, and company direction.

What We're Looking For

• At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.

• Full-stack experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, plus backend development with Python.

• Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning; experience with vector databases or semantic search is relevant.

• Broad product engineering experience across the application stack, including designing, building, and deploying products from MVP through production.

• Ability to lead customer conversations and translate feedback into product requirements.

• Experience in a startup or early-stage environment and sound judgment about balancing speed, quality, and architecture.

Compensation & Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Hybrid, based in Berlin, Germany. Candidates must be willing to work from Berlin or relocate there.