Founding Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage freight technology team building AI-powered tools for sea and air freight operations. You will combine hands-on full-stack engineering with customer conversations to turn operational needs into scalable, production-ready products and help shape the product and technical direction.

Compensation & Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Hybrid, Berlin, Germany.

Responsibilities

Lead conversations with customers and translate their feedback into product features and technical decisions.; Design and build full-stack applications while advancing user-facing AI capabilities.; Move products from demos and prototypes to scalable, high-quality production systems.; Contribute to product, technology, and company direction through practical engineering work.; Make architecture trade-offs suited to an early-stage environment without over-engineering.

Requirements

At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.; Broad product-engineering experience across frontend, backend, and systems, with recent hands-on development work.; Full-stack experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, plus Python backend development.; Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.; Experience shipping user-facing LLM features or agents for customers, and taking products from MVP to production.; Experience leading customer conversations and turning feedback into product requirements.; Experience in a startup or early-stage environment, freight or logistics technology experience is relevant.