Staff Engineer (Founding)

Overview

About the Role A fast-growing, seed-stage AI enterprise SaaS company based in Munich is looking for a Founding Staff Engineer to serve as the technical backbone of a small, high-velocity engineering team. This is a deeply hands-on role, you'll own the highest-leverage systems across multiple products, set architectural direction, and raise the bar on quality, reliability, and AI capabilities. The

What you'll do

• About the Role A fast-growing, seed-stage AI enterprise SaaS company based in Munich is looking for a Founding Staff Engineer to serve as the technical backbone of a small, high-velocity engineering team.
• This is a deeply hands-on role, you'll own the highest-leverage systems across multiple products, set architectural direction, and raise the bar on quality, reliability, and AI capabilities.
• The company automates inside sales workflows (quoting, order processing, voice agents) for distributors and manufacturers, with enterprise-grade ERP/CRM integrations and a growing roster of customers across Europe.
• This is an early, high-impact seat at a well-backed startup (Y Combinator) with a strong technical team and a clear path to scale.
• You'll work in-person in Munich with a team that operates with intensity and purpose.
• What You'll Do Serve as the technical backbone across multiple products and development streams, owning the most complex, highest-leverage engineering work.
• Define and evolve architecture decisions that prevent long-term dead-ends, spanning core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure.
• Spend the majority of your time writing and shipping production code, leading by example.
• Eliminate technical debt through targeted refactoring, improving reliability and raising engineering standards across the board.
• Mentor engineers via code review, pairing, and direct feedback to reduce hidden risk and multiply team output.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Engineering.
• Experience level: 8+ yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working remotely with distributed teams.

Skills