About the Role
This is a founding Staff Engineer position at a seed-stage AI SaaS startup building automation tools for inside sales workflows in distribution and manufacturing. You will serve as the technical backbone of a small, fast-moving engineering team, owning high-leverage systems across multiple products and setting the standard for quality, reliability, and AI capabilities.
What You'll Do
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Own the most complex, highest-leverage engineering work: core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure.
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Define and evolve architecture decisions across multiple products to prevent long-term technical dead-ends.
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Spend the majority of your time writing and shipping production code, leading by example.
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Eliminate technical debt by refactoring abstractions and raising reliability and engineering standards.
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Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and direct feedback to improve team output and reduce hidden risk.
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Contribute to the architecture and implementation of AI capabilities, including LLM pipelines and data infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
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8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of solving genuinely hard technical problems in production.
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Deep full-stack expertise with strong backend, API, and infrastructure skills; comfortable on the frontend when needed (Python, React, TypeScript).
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Proven experience designing and evolving systems across multiple products and teams.
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Demonstrated ability to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability at scale.
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Cloud and DevOps fluency: containerization (Docker), cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
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Experience building or integrating AI systems, LLMs, or large-scale data pipelines is a strong plus.
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A hands-on technical leader who mentors by doing and multiplies team effectiveness.
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Mission-driven, pragmatic, and decisive; comfortable working with intensity in a high-growth startup environment.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: 80,000 to 130,000 EUR annually. No visa sponsorship is available for this role.
Location
On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. This role requires full-time in-person presence.
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