Founding Engineer

About the Role

As a Founding Engineer at an early-stage energy storage software startup, you will build across the full stack of a product for optimizing and forecasting industrial battery systems. You will help shape the product and its technical foundations as the team grows.

What You'll Do

• Build backend services and optimization algorithms for real-time energy asset processing.
• Develop dashboards that let battery operators monitor and control their systems.
• Design and scale cloud infrastructure for distributed battery systems.
• Deploy production-ready optimizations and improve them using real-world feedback.
• Work with cross-functional teammates to define product features and requirements.

What We're Looking For

• No more than five years of work experience, with graduation in 2023 or later.
• Full-stack familiarity with React and TypeScript on the frontend and Python on the backend, plus experience with Tailwind CSS.
• Experience with a startup of fewer than 50 employees that was founded less than three years ago.
• Energy industry experience and a track record of deploying optimizations in production.
• A solid understanding of mixed-integer optimization and experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or electrical engineering, with a grade better than 2.0.
• Fluent or near-fluent German and a semester abroad at a leading university in the US, UK, or Asia.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: €70,000 to €100,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, five days per week.