Staff Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Define impactful AI functionalities for tradespeople and transform emerging capabilities into dependable, observable production product experiences.

• Influence architectural direction and cross-team system attributes alongside fellow Staff Engineers.

• Empower individual teams to develop and deliver solutions independently.

• Establish data models and semantics for AI-driven workflows.

• Differentiate operational data from knowledge and provide contextual insights for product utilization.

• Shape the development and assessment of customer-facing AI functionalities.

• Enhance AI-driven software engineering tools, workflows, standards, and practices.

• Advance shared architecture and engineering standards through RFCs and ADRs.

• Oversee intricate initiatives from discovery and technical design to implementation, monitoring, and ongoing enhancement.

• Identify valuable technical capabilities, architectural upgrades, and engineering practices for investment.

• Elevate architecture, developer experience, AI-driven engineering practices, and codebase quality across teams.

• Mentor engineers through collaboration, architectural guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Proven track record of technical leadership.

• Background in designing, deploying, and managing complex production systems at scale.

• Familiarity with distributed architectures, asynchronous or multi-step workflows, event-driven services, data pipelines, or ETL pipelines.

• Practical understanding of reliability and observability.

• Strong fundamentals in typed languages and a polyglot mindset.

• Proficiency in TypeScript or the ability to become productive quickly.

• Experience with React, serverless Node.js/Express, and GCP, or relevant experience from another modern cloud environment.

• Capability to distinguish operational data from knowledge and design intentionally for both.

• Strong skills in system design and domain modeling.

• Hands-on experience with dependency injection, adapters, ensuring invalid states are unrepresentable, and implementing parse-don’t-validate principles.

• Strong product-oriented thinking and evidence-driven customer problem solving.

• Ability to sway technical direction across teams and align Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders without formal authority.

• Frequent use of AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or Codex.

• Broad T-shaped engineering profile with expertise in at least one area.

• C1 level proficiency in English.

• Proficiency in German is a bonus, but not essential.

• Must possess the legal right to work in the EU or the specific country where the role is located; visa or work permit sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Four major team event weeks each year.

• Casual monthly on-site and remote formats.

• A culture of recognition that celebrates achievements.

• Flat hierarchy and a high-trust working environment.

• Personal learning budget of €1,500 per year.

• Two paid days for educational leave.

• Targeted enablement formats.

• AI-enabled internal tools and workflows.

• MacBook provided.

• Premium headphones and necessary hardware and tools supplied.

• Flexible options for remote, hybrid, abroad, or on-site work.

• Opportunity to work abroad worldwide for up to two months.

• 30 vacation days per year based on a five-day work week.

• December 24th off.

• Subsidized Urban Sports Club membership.

• Internal sports meetups.

• JobRad bike leasing available.

• Subsidized Deutschlandticket or BahnCard offered.