Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Role overview Build and operate product features for a grant-funding platform that combines funding research, application support, expert review, and grant management. This senior full-stack role spans the user interface, backend, infrastructure, and production AI pipelines. As an early engineering hire, you will shape technical direction and take problems from user discovery through deployment in a still-evolving environment.

Responsibilities - Develop and ship end-to-end features based on grant writers’ needs, with attention to usability and workflow improvements. - Build and operate production AI pipelines, including prompt and context design, provider choices, cost management, and evaluation. - Improve AI features and workflows using providers such as AWS Bedrock, Anthropic, and OpenAI; work with agents and tool calling where useful. - Monitor and debug live services, improve reliability and performance, and contribute to AWS infrastructure. - Shape architecture, engineering standards, code quality, and technical priorities as the team grows.

Requirements - Several years of professional experience with TypeScript and Node.js. - Strong PostgreSQL skills, including JSONB, query performance, and migrations. - Full-stack experience with React and Next.js, backend services and queues, AWS services such as ECS and RDS, and Terraform. - Hands-on experience building and operating AI pipelines in production, with knowledge of LLM applications, prompt engineering, context management, model selection, and evaluation. - Strong production debugging skills and the ability to own problems independently from discovery to resolution. - Usability-focused product judgment and comfort working where requirements and processes are not fully defined.

Nice to have - German proficiency at B1 level or above. - Experience running AI agents or tool-calling workflows in production. - Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.

Benefits and work setup - Fully remote work is possible, with competitive compensation and participation in company success. - Early ownership of product and technical decisions, direct collaboration with leadership, and a €2,000 annual professional development budget. - Other listed offerings include modern tools, team events, and optional workations.