Founding Engineer

📋 Description

• • Join a small, ambitious team building the core software platform that controls and optimises industrial battery storage assets across Europe.
• • As a Founding Engineer, you will have outsized ownership across the full stack — from real-time optimisation algorithms and backend services to operator-facing dashboards and cloud infrastructure.
• • Your work will directly shape both the product and the trajectory of the company at a critical early stage.
• • This is an on-site, full-time position based in Munich, Germany.
• • Visa sponsorship is available.
• • Own and build the core product powering real-time optimisation and forecasting for industrial energy assets.
• • Develop backend services and mixed-integer optimisation algorithms to process high-frequency data in real time.
• • Design and scale distributed infrastructure to support thousands of battery systems in production.
• • Build intuitive frontend dashboards that allow battery operators to monitor, control, and analyse their assets.
• • Implement containerised, CI/CD-driven deployment pipelines and maintain production observability.
• • Collaborate directly with founders and customers to define product features and translate operational requirements into engineering solutions.
• • Iterate rapidly based on feedback from live deployments.
• • Required:
• • Experience with real-time data processing and optimisation or forecasting systems.
• • Proven ability to design and operate scalable distributed backend systems for large-scale deployments.
• • Solid Python backend development skills, including mixed-integer optimisation.
• • Frontend development proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and React (Next.js preferred); experience with Tailwind CSS.
• • Containerisation and modern deployment practices — Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD for production services.
• • Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• • Database design and data modelling experience (e.g. PostgreSQL or MySQL).
• • Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• • Startup experience (company under 3 years old and fewer than 50 employees qualifies).
• • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Electrical Engineering with a grade better than 2.0 (German grading scale).
• • Fluency in German — the majority of customers communicate in German.
• • Nice to Have:
• • Background or hands-on experience in the energy industry (battery storage, renewables, grid management, or similar).
• • Demonstrated track record of deploying optimisations in live production systems.
• • Compensation & Benefits:
• • Salary: €70,000 – €100,000 per year, depending on experience.
• • Founding-stage equity and meaningful ownership in the company's success.
• • High-impact role with direct influence over product and company direction.
• • Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates.
• • LOCATION
• • This is a fully on-site role in Munich, Germany. You will be working day-to-day with a tight-knit founding team in the office.