Founding Engineer

Role details

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage AI and logistics technology team as a Founding Engineer. You will combine customer discovery with hands-on full-stack engineering to turn AI agent demos into reliable, production-ready tools for freight operations, while helping shape product and technical direction. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Lead customer conversations and translate operational insights into product features and technical strategy. - Design and build full-stack applications and advance the product's AI capabilities. - Move prototypes and demos toward scalable, high-quality production systems. - Make pragmatic architecture decisions and help shape the product and engineering direction. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications. - Broad product-engineering experience across backend systems and user-facing applications, rather than a focus limited to one discipline. - Hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, as well as Python backend development. - Experience shipping customer-facing LLM features or agents in production, including LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning. - Experience building and deploying scalable products from MVP to production, including moving beyond prototype or demo stages. - Ability to lead customer conversations, turn feedback into product requirements, and make sensible early-stage architecture trade-offs. - Experience in a startup or other early-stage environment; freight or logistics technology experience is relevant. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION Hybrid in Berlin, Germany. Candidates should be willing to work from Berlin or relocate there.