As a Founding Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of customer discovery, product strategy, and hands-on engineering.
You'll help transition the product from demo-stage to a scalable, production-grade platform — and play a direct role in shaping the company's technical and strategic direction from the ground up.
The company is an early-stage B2B SaaS startup in the freight and logistics technology space, developing an AI operating system that automates operational workflows — such as rate requests, bookings, and exception handling — for top-tier freight forwarders.
The platform integrates with existing industry systems and continuously improves with every shipment processed.
Work arrangement: Hybrid — Berlin, Germany.
Visa sponsorship is available.
What You'll DoLead customer conversations, deeply understand user pain points, and translate insights into concrete product features and technical strategy.
Design, build, and ship full-stack applications across the entire product surface area.
Advance the product's AI capabilities — including LLM integrations, agent orchestration, and data pipelines.
Drive the transition from MVP and demo-mode to scalable, high-quality production systems.
Contribute to shaping product direction, engineering culture, and company strategy as an early team member.
What We're Looking ForMust-haves:2+ years of software engineering experience.
Full-stack development proficiency: Node.
js, TypeScript, and React on the frontend/backend; Python for backend and ML-adjacent work.
Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.
Proven track record designing, building, and deploying scalable products from MVP through production.
Comfort leading customer conversations and distilling feedback into clear product.