Founding Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Berlin

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI startup building purpose-built automation for the sea and air freight industry. You'll sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success — working directly with customers, shaping strategy, and writing the code that takes the product from demo to production scale.

What You'll Do

• Lead customer conversations, surface insights, and translate them into concrete product features and technical direction.

• Design and build full-stack applications, pushing the AI capabilities of the platform forward.

• Drive the transition from prototype and demo mode to scalable, production-ready systems.

• Shape the product roadmap, engineering culture, and broader company direction from the ground up.

What We're Looking For

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

• Full-stack development skills: Node.js, TypeScript, and React on the frontend; Python on the backend.

• Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.

• Proven ability to design, build, and deploy scalable products from MVP through to production.

• Comfort leading customer conversations and turning feedback into well-defined product requirements.

• Experience in startup or early-stage environments where ownership and initiative matter.

• Familiarity with vector databases or semantic search implementations is a plus.

Location

Hybrid — primary office in Berlin, Germany. Visa sponsorship is available.