Founding Product Engineer

Overview

About the Role This is a founding-level product engineering role at a fast-growing, European-headquartered startup building an AI-powered phone assistant for small and medium-sized businesses. The platform automates inbound and outbound calls, appointment scheduling, customer service, and other communication workflows, with a strong focus on the German-speaking market and a privacy-first, data-so

What you'll do

• About the Role This is a founding-level product engineering role at a fast-growing, European-headquartered startup building an AI-powered phone assistant for small and medium-sized businesses.
• The platform automates inbound and outbound calls, appointment scheduling, customer service, and other communication workflows, with a strong focus on the German-speaking market and a privacy-first, data-sovereign architecture built in Europe.
• You'll join a lean, high-ownership engineering team at an early stage (recently closed a Seed / Series A round backed by prominent European and global investors) and have a direct impact on product direction, architecture, and customer outcomes.
• The company has grown from a handful of people to ~50 in under two years and is continuing to scale rapidly.
• Native-level German proficiency is a firm requirement for this role.
• You must be able to work with CET time-zone overlap.
• An optional office in Vienna, Austria is available.
• What You'll Do Own features end-to-end, from hypothesis and prototype through to production release, for a product used by thousands of companies across Europe.
• Lead product discovery by designing and running rapid experiments to validate ideas before committing to large-scale builds.
• Maintain close, recurring contact with customers, partners, and the Sales team to surface real pain points and translate them into product decisions.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Engineering.
• Experience level: 3+ yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working remotely with distributed teams.

Skills