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We're turning finance departments from cost centers into strategic partners.\n\nThe problem: Finance teams spend 85% of their time on manual data crunching instead of strategic work. 40,000 transactions categorized manually every month. 5¿10 days just for month-end close. Copy-paste between SAP, Excel, PowerPoint.\n\nWe're flipping that to 85% strategic insights, 15% data work.\n\nWe¿re hiring: 1 Founding Product Engineer (m/f/d) Your Role\nYou're a Founding Product Engineer: product-minded, customer-facing, and hands-on in development.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\n * Partner with customers (CFOs, finance teams) to understand workflows and pain points\n * Translate feedback into product improvements, experiments, and shipped features\n * Work closely with Founding Team and help drive delivery and prioritization\n * Build and ship user-facing product features (TypeScript/JavaScript) and backend integrations where needed\n * Help shape engineering practices early (quality, testing, security, processes)\n\nWhat you'll build (examples)\n\n * Workflows that guide finance teams from raw ERP data to insights and reports\n * Product surfaces for asking questions, reviewing results, and iterating on analyses\n * Integrations with finance systems (SAP, Dynamics, Excel)\n * AI-enabled features that fit real enterprise workflows (not demos)\n\nWhat you won't do\n\n * Write endless boilerplate CRUD for the sake of it\n * Wait for perfect specs and Jira tickets\n * Build \"AI features\" that don't solve a real customer problem\n\nWhat You Need to Bring\nNon-negotiables\n\n * Strong product orientation: you care about outcomes and users, not just implementation\n * You enjoy customer collaboration and can communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders\n * Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills (React/Next.js experience is a plus)\n * You've shipped products to production before\n * Solid understanding of security and data governance (enterprise context)\n * Based in Vienna or willing to relocate (2-3 days/week in office)\n\nStrong plus\n\n * Experience as a Product Engineer / Product-minded full-stack engineer\n * You worked with Product Owners or have been one yourself\n * Experience with B2B SaaS and enterprise requirements\n * Experience with finance/ERP systems or complex data integrations\n * Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Terraform (or similar)\n * Interest in finance/accounting (or willingness to learn)\n\nTech Stack\n * Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js\n * Backend: TypeScript/Node.js with Next.js server routes and services; Python for Azure Functions and data-processing jobs\n * Data: PostgreSQL, pgvector, dbmate migrations\n * AI: OpenAI/GPT and Claude/Anthropic\n * Orchestration: In-house LLM routing and workflow orchestration\n * Infrastructure: Azure, Terraform, containerized deployment, Azure Functions\n * Integrations: SAP OData/APIs, Azure AD/Microsoft Graph, Excel/XLSX processing and automation\n\nWhat You'll Get\nCompensation\n\n * Minimum salary: €65,000 gross/year, with significant overpayment based on qualifications and experience\n * Founding team equity package\n * Higher compensation possible for freelancers (Austria or international)\n\nHow to Apply\nSend an email to  and Florian will contact you. Das Mindestentgelt für die Stelle als Founding Product Engineer (m/f/d) beträgt 65.000,00 EUR brutto pro Monat auf Basis Vollzeitbeschäftigung. 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