Founding Engineer

Job description

### 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.