Founding Engineer

November 8, 2026

Office

Middle

Berlin, Germany

Indeed

Keep in mind

No visa sponsorship
Office-only work

Description

Early-stage team building AI software for enterprise procurement. The Founding Engineer owns customer problems from discovery through production while helping shape product, technical direction, and engineering practices. The role spans full-stack feature delivery, AI-enabled workflows, and real-time data integrations with enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

Build and ship full-stack features based on customer needs, from discovery through production
Develop AI-enabled workflows and shared foundations for agent context, tool use, and evaluation
Design reliable LLM workflows with evaluation loops, guardrails, and observability
Make architectural decisions across performance, security, and developer experience
Review AI-assisted code and improve product quality through frequent releases and user feedback
Help establish engineering practices and contribute to hiring as the team grows
Build real-time data pipelines and integrations with enterprise systems

Requirements

At least 3 years of full-stack engineering experience, delivering end-to-end product features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
Production experience with TypeScript and Python, plus hands-on experience building and deploying applications with Next.js
Production experience with LLMs, retrieval systems, and embeddings, including an understanding of latency, cost, and quality trade-offs
Strong frontend, backend, database, API design, and full-stack architecture skills; experience with React, PostgreSQL or Supabase, Vercel, and REST or GraphQL is relevant
Evidence of strong engineering ability, initiative, and ownership, with experience shipping production software at a startup or similarly entrepreneurial team
Experience with procurement, ERP, enterprise supply chain, or data-intensive B2B products is helpful
Comfort working hands-on as an individual contributor, communicating clearly, and collaborating with a small team in person