Founding Product Engineer

About the Role

Join the engineering team at a seed-stage AI communications SaaS company as a Founding Product Engineer. You will own product features from discovery and prototyping through production, helping build AI-powered tools that improve customer communications for businesses across Europe.

What You'll Do

• Own features end to end, from forming a hypothesis to implementation, release, and iteration.

• Run rapid experiments and build lightweight prototypes to validate product ideas.

• Speak regularly with customers, partners, and Sales to identify real needs and pain points.

• Design tracking and use product metrics to guide decisions and improvements.

• Build across the stack and make pragmatic architecture choices that balance fast learning with long-term scalability.

• Take ownership of initiatives and move them forward independently.

What We're Looking For

• At least three years of product engineering experience delivering features end to end.

• Full-stack experience with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and React.

• Experience owning software from architecture and implementation through production release.

• Hands-on experience in a startup environment and a strong customer-focused product mindset.

• German proficiency at B2 level or above and fluent English.

• Experience integrating large language models or building AI-powered features is an advantage.

• Comfort using data and metrics to make product decisions.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual base salary of €80,000 to €120,000, plus equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Remote within Germany, with overlap in Central European Time.