Founding Product Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage energy technology team building an enterprise-grade platform for energy procurement and management. You will work closely with customers and the founding team to turn market data and energy market dynamics into practical, scalable products.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: €85,000 to €140,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid, based in Munich, Germany. The role requires working on-site most of the week, with occasional remote work.

Responsibilities

Own product features from discovery and design through development and deployment.; Translate customer needs and product objectives into clear requirements.; Build performant backend services for a data-intensive application.; Create intuitive interfaces for complex energy decision-support workflows.; Develop time-series forecasts for power consumption and renewable generation.; Build linear optimization algorithms to help reduce energy costs.; Help shape the product and its technical foundations.

Requirements

At least two years of software engineering experience delivering scalable web applications in an early-stage startup environment.; Experience independently shipping full product features in collaboration with customers, with ownership across full-stack or machine-learning product engineering.; Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building maintainable, scalable applications, including frontend interfaces for complex decision-support systems and backend services for data-intensive products.; Fluent spoken and written German, and a product-minded, hands-on approach suited to an early-stage team.; Experience across frontend and backend development. PostgreSQL, React, and Python experience are relevant, TypeScript, FastAPI, and Supabase are useful.; Experience or strong interest in time-series forecasting and/or linear optimization, with curiosity about energy markets.; A strong career signal, such as a high-quality university education, experience at a high-growth startup, or equivalent accomplishments.