Staff Engineer

About the Role

This is a founding-level Staff Engineer role at a Y Combinator–backed B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered sales automation for distributors and manufacturers. You'll serve as the technical backbone of a small, fast-moving engineering organisation — owning high-leverage systems across multiple products and setting the architectural foundation that the company scales on.

What You'll Do

• Own the most complex, highest-leverage engineering work: core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure.

• Define and evolve architecture decisions that prevent long-term dead-ends across products and development streams.

• Spend the majority of your time writing and shipping production code, leading by example.

• Eliminate technical debt through refactoring, raising reliability and engineering standards across the codebase.

• Mentor engineers via code review, pairing, and direct feedback to improve team output and reduce hidden risk.

• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of AI capabilities, including LLM pipelines and data infrastructure.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of solving genuinely hard technical problems in production.

• Deep full-stack expertise with strong backend, API, and infrastructure skills; comfortable on the frontend when needed (Python, React, TypeScript).

• Proven experience designing and evolving systems across multiple products and teams, including long-term architectural strategy.

• Demonstrated ability to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability at scale.

• Cloud and DevOps fluency: containerisation (Docker), cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), and infrastructure as code (Terraform).

• Experience building or integrating AI systems, LLMs, or large-scale data pipelines — a strong plus.

• A hands-on technical leader who multiplies team effectiveness and raises quality without prompting.

• Mission-driven, pragmatic, and decisive under uncertainty.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: €90,000 – €200,000 per year. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany . This role requires in-person presence.