Founding Product Engineer

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Remote

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Munich

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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 • Own the full product lifecycle - from design and requirements through to deployment and iteration. • Translate product objectives into clear, actionable requirements in close collaboration with customers. • Design simple, iterative solutions to complex energy procurement and market problems. • Build performant backend services for a highly data-intensive application. • Develop intuitive, elegant user interfaces for a sophisticated decision-support system. • Train time-series forecasting models for power consumption and renewables production. • Develop and refine linear optimisation algorithms to reduce customer energy costs. • Help define and evolve the core tech stack - including PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, and Python. What We're Looking For Must-haves: • 2+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable web applications in an early-stage startup environment. • Proven track record of delivering full product features independently, working directly with customers. • Strong software engineering fundamentals - you write robust, maintainable, scalable code. • Hands-on experience building backend services for data-intensive applications. • Experience building frontend UIs for complex, data-rich decision-support tools. • A genuine product mindset: you think about outcomes, not just outputs. • Comfort thriving in a fast-paced, early-stage environment with high ambiguity and rapid change. Strong advantages: • Experience with time-series forecasting and/or linear optimisation. • Familiarity with PostgreSQL, React, Python; exposure to FastAPI, TypeScript, or Supabase is a plus. • Background as a CTO, founding engineer, or startup founder. • Corporate background (e.g. industrials, energy, consulting) paired with a demonstrated startup mindset and grit. • 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 • Salary: €85,000 – €140,000 per year, depending on experience. • Meaningful early-stage equity participation. • Direct influence over product direction, tech stack, and company culture. • A lean, high-calibre team working on a complex, high-stakes problem in the European energy transition. Find Jobs in Germany on Arbeitnow