About the Role As Founding Engineer at an early-stage freight technology company, you will work across product and engineering to build AI-powered tools for freight operations. You will combine customer discovery with hands-on development, helping evolve early demos into reliable production products and shaping the technical direction as the company grows. What You'll Do • Lead conversations with customers and translate their needs into product features and technical plans. • Design, build, and deploy full-stack applications, while advancing the product's AI capabilities. • Move prototypes and demos toward scalable, high-quality production systems. • Make practical architecture decisions and help shape the product and engineering direction. What We're Looking For • At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications. • Full-stack experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, plus backend development in Python. • Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning. • Experience taking products from MVP to production, including customer conversations and product feedback. • Startup or early-stage experience, with sound judgment about architecture and scaling trade-offs. • Experience with vector databases or semantic search is relevant. Compensation & Benefits Visa sponsorship is available. Location Hybrid role based in Berlin, Germany. Candidates should be willing to work from Berlin or relocate.