Founding Engineer

📋 Description

• • Join a small, fast-moving energy software startup in Munich building an end-to-end platform for industrial battery storage — covering AI-driven operations, real-time optimization, and energy market trading.
• • As a Founding Engineer, you'll own large parts of the core product, shape the technical architecture from the ground up, and have a direct impact on the company's trajectory.
• • This is a hands-on, high-ownership role at the intersection of software engineering, optimization, and the European energy transition.
• • Own and build the backend services powering real-time optimization and forecasting for industrial energy assets.
• • Develop and deploy mixed-integer optimization algorithms and predictive models that process data in real time.
• • Build frontend dashboards in React/Next.js that allow battery operators to monitor, configure, and control assets.
• • Design, scale, and operate cloud infrastructure supporting thousands of distributed battery systems.
• • Set up and maintain observability, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines for production services.
• • Collaborate closely with the founding team to define product features and technical requirements.
• • Iterate rapidly based on feedback from live production deployments.
• • Experience with real-time data processing and optimization or forecasting systems.
• • Solid background designing and operating scalable distributed backend systems (Python strongly preferred).
• • Containerization and modern deployment practices — Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD for production services.
• • Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• • Strong database design and data modeling skills (PostgreSQL/MySQL or similar).
• • Frontend proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS (Next.js a strong plus).
• • Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• • Prior startup experience — ideally at a company under 3 years old and fewer than 50 employees.
• • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Electrical Engineering (grade better than 2.0 on the German scale or equivalent).
• • Experience in the energy industry (battery storage, grid management, energy markets, or similar).
• • Production deployment of optimization or forecasting models.
• • Fluency in German — most end customers operate in German-speaking markets.
• • Salary: €70,000 – €100,000 per year, depending on experience.
• • Meaningful equity participation as a founding-stage team member.
• • Visa sponsorship available.
• • Direct influence over product, architecture, and company direction from day one.
• • This role is on-site in Munich, Germany. The team works together in the office day-to-day — no remote option at this stage.