Overview
About the Role This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI startup building autonomous agents that automate complex processes for industrial enterprises. You will own the full stack, from React frontends to cloud infrastructure to LLM-powered backends, and directly shape both the product and the engineering culture from the ground up. What You'll Do Architect and ship end-to-end features, balancing immediate impact with long-term scalability. Design agentic systems that leverage LLMs for reasoning, document extraction, and enterprise process automation. Implement AI best practices to ensure autonomous agents operate with precision, security, and industrial-grade reliability. Own the complete user journey, refining frontends, architecting backend logic, and managing cloud infrastructure as needed. Build mission-critical, secure, and resilient AI solutions held to the highest
Full job description
Full Job Description
About the Role
This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI startup building autonomous agents that automate complex processes for industrial enterprises. You will own the full stack, from React frontends to cloud infrastructure to LLM-powered backends, and directly shape both the product and the engineering culture from the ground up.
What You'll Do
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Architect and ship end-to-end features, balancing immediate impact with long-term scalability.
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Design agentic systems that leverage LLMs for reasoning, document extraction, and enterprise process automation.
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Implement AI best practices to ensure autonomous agents operate with precision, security, and industrial-grade reliability.
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Own the complete user journey, refining frontends, architecting backend logic, and managing cloud infrastructure as needed.
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Build mission-critical, secure, and resilient AI solutions held to the highest standards for data integrity and security.
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Identify and fix critical problems outside your immediate scope, from infrastructure bottlenecks to customer friction points.
What We're Looking For
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3 or more years building full-stack applications with Python backends and React frontends in production environments.
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Practical production experience building and deploying LLM-based agentic systems or AI agents.
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Proficiency with Python backend frameworks such as FastAPI, Pydantic, and SQLAlchemy.
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Strong TypeScript and React skills for building intuitive interfaces for complex workflows.
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Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks such as PydanticAI, Google ADK, LangGraph, or equivalent, plus solid prompt engineering fundamentals.
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Experience designing and shipping mission-critical systems with high reliability, security, and data integrity requirements.
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A pragmatic, ship-first mindset with comfort using AI coding assistants to accelerate development velocity.
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Experience with cloud infrastructure deployment and management for production applications.
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Familiarity with LLM observability, evaluation, or monitoring tools is a plus.
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Experience integrating with ERP platforms or enterprise supply chain software is a plus.
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German language fluency is a strong plus given the core industrial customer base.
Location
This role is based in Berlin, Germany, and requires five days per week in the office. No visa sponsorship is available.
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