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.