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. What You'll Do - 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. What We're Looking For - 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. Compensation & Benefits Visa sponsorship is available. Location Hybrid, Berlin, Germany.