Staff Engineer – AI Sales Automation Startup

About the role

This is a founding Staff Engineer position at a seed‑stage AI sales automation startup, where you will serve as the technical backbone of a small, fast‑moving engineering team. You will own the highest‑leverage systems across multiple products, set architectural direction, and raise the bar on quality, reliability, and AI capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Own the most complex engineering work across core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure.
• Define and evolve architecture decisions that prevent long‑term dead‑ends across multiple products.
• Spend the majority of your time writing and shipping production code, leading by example.
• Eliminate technical debt by refactoring abstractions and raising engineering and reliability standards.
• Mentor engineers through 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.

Required profile

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of solving hard technical problems in production.
• Deep full‑stack expertise with strong backend, API, and infrastructure skills; comfortable on the frontend when needed.
• Proven ownership of architecture decisions across multiple products or teams.
• Demonstrated improvements to production system performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical guidance through hands‑on leadership.
• Willingness to work on‑site in Munich in a high‑intensity, startup environment.

Required skills

• Python
• React
• TypeScript
• Docker
• Azure
• AWS
• GCP
• Terraform
• LLM pipelines
• Data infrastructure

What we offer

• Salary range: 80,000 to 130,000 EUR annually.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.