About the Role
This is a founding engineering hire at an early-stage, AI-powered platform built for industrial energy procurement and cost optimisation. You'll join a small, high-conviction team and take genuine ownership — from shaping the architecture to shipping features directly with customers. The platform handles real-time energy market data, forecasting, portfolio management, and optimisation at enterprise scale.
If you're a generalist engineer with a strong product mindset, comfort with ambiguity, and a curiosity for data-intensive domains, this role is a rare opportunity to have outsized impact from day one.
Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
What You'll Do
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Own the full product lifecycle — from design and requirements through to deployment and iteration.
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Translate product objectives into clear, actionable requirements in close collaboration with customers.
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Design simple, iterative solutions to complex energy procurement and market problems.
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Build performant backend services for a highly data-intensive application.
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Develop intuitive, elegant user interfaces for a sophisticated decision-support system.
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Train time-series forecasting models for power consumption and renewables production.
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Develop and refine linear optimisation algorithms to reduce customer energy costs.
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Help define and evolve the core tech stack — including PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, and Python.
What We're Looking For
Must-haves:
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2+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable web applications in an early-stage startup environment.
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Proven track record of delivering full product features independently, working directly with customers.
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Strong software engineering fundamentals — you write robust, maintainable, scalable code.
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Hands-on experience building backend services for data-intensive applications.
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Experience building frontend UIs for complex, data-rich decision-support tools.
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A genuine product mindset: you think about outcomes, not just outputs.
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Comfort thriving in a fast-paced, early-stage environment with high ambiguity and rapid change.
Strong advantages:
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Experience with time-series forecasting and/or linear optimisation.
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Familiarity with PostgreSQL, React, Python; exposure to FastAPI, TypeScript, or Supabase is a plus.
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Background as a CTO, founding engineer, or startup founder.
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Corporate background (e.g. industrials, energy, consulting) paired with a demonstrated startup mindset and grit.
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Curiosity for energy markets, industrial technology, or data-intensive B2B applications.
Location
This role is based in Munich, Germany. You'll work on-site the majority of the week, with flexibility for occasional remote days. Fully remote arrangements are not available for this position.
Compensation & Benefits
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Salary: €85,000 – €140,000 per year, depending on experience.
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Meaningful early-stage equity participation.
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Direct influence over product direction, tech stack, and company culture.
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A lean, high-calibre team working on a complex, high-stakes problem in the European energy transition.
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