Founding Product Engineer
About the Role
A well\-funded early\-stage energy intelligence startup based in Munich, Germany is looking for a Founding Product Engineer to join a small, ambitious team building an enterprise\-grade energy procurement and portfolio optimization platform. You'll work directly with founders and customers to shape the product from the ground up — owning features end\-to\-end across backend, frontend, and data/ML layers.
This is a rare opportunity for a generalist engineer with a product mindset to have outsized impact in a fast\-growing B2B SaaS company operating at the intersection of energy markets, AI, and optimization.
What You'll Do
- Own the full product lifecycle — from design and requirements to deployment and iteration.
- Translate product objectives into concrete requirements through close collaboration with customers.
- Design simple, iterative solutions to complex energy procurement and portfolio problems.
- Build performant backend services for a data\-intensive application.
- Develop intuitive, elegant UIs for a complex decision\-support system.
- Train time\-series forecasting models for power consumption and renewables production.
- Develop linear optimization algorithms to reduce customer energy costs.
- Help shape and evolve the core tech stack (PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, Python).
What We're Looking For
- 2\+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable web applications in an early\-stage startup environment — required.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver full product features independently, in close collaboration with customers — required.
- Strong fundamentals in building robust, maintainable, and scalable web applications.
- Experience building backend services for data\-intensive applications.
- Experience building frontend UIs for complex decision\-support or data\-heavy products.
- Hands\-on experience or strong interest in time\-series forecasting and/or linear optimization — strongly preferred.
- Comfortable working across the full stack; familiarity with PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, and Python is a plus.
- Experience with FastAPI or Supabase is welcome but not required.
- Background as a startup founder, early engineer, or former CTO is a strong plus.
- Genuine curiosity for energy markets and complex, data\-driven business problems.
- Thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and takes ownership without hand\-holding.
Location
This role is on\-site in Munich, Germany the majority of the week, with occasional flexibility for remote work. Visa sponsorship is not available — candidates must already have the right to work in Germany.
Compensation \& Benefits
- Salary range: €85,000 – €140,000 annually (or USD equivalent), depending on experience.
- Early\-stage equity opportunity commensurate with a founding team member role.
- Opportunity to shape the product, culture, and technical direction of a high\-growth startup.
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