Founding Engineer D/F/M

What if… your work empowered tech teams across the world?

Software helps address the world’s biggest challenges from climate crisis to inefficiency in governments. However, many companies and teams are bogged down by their own inefficiencies and struggle to develop technology effectively. Tekkr’s mission is to empower tech teams and their leaders to achieve their full potential! Join tekkr and become a positive multiplier for techies across the globe!

We work primarily with other, cutting-edge startups (Parloa, Orbem, Forto, Vimcar...) and help them get even further ahead. So not only will you work with a kick-ass Tekkr team, but also get real-life exposure to amazing customers and collaborate with their tech leadership on some of their most exciting challenges.

We have built an initial software product based on node.js, react, mongoDB, shadcn and modern AI-tooling (e.g. RAG, langfuse, ...). We are using this product to run real customer engagements and projects to deeply explore customer problems. Our goal: build something people want! We learn super-fast, iterate very quickly and need your help to become even faster! Let's build this company together!

Tasks

As a founding engineer, you will help shape the company's culture, product and vision.

You will be responsible for building our products from the ground up.

You're excited by the opportunity to get in early at a customer-oriented startup and in a unique way. Since we are early-stage, you will wear many hats: figuring out how to best leverage the latest technologies including LLMs, architect, design and build software, iterate and repeat :)

Requirements

• Full stack development skills, ideally in the Tekkr stack: node, react, mongoDB
• Basic design skills: create simple but effective designs and implement them using our design systems (shadcn)
• A hunger and drive to learn, build rapidly and work closely with a tight-knit team that is on a mission to help tech teams achieve their potential
• Some entrepreneurial experience, e.g. freelancing, running your own website-agency, having built your own solutions with real users, leading some type of community in university, …
• The startup attitude - “they did not know it was impossible, so they just did it”
• Full professional proficiency in English, German is a plus
• Berlin-based, we want to start building a local team, then expand for remote work for all
• European work permit required

Benefits

• Highly attractive equity compensation based on industry benchmarks
• Receive a salary from day 1, 65.000€/ year
• Join a team that has already established rapport with 50+ investors including Sequoia, Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Northzone, FoundersFund, Index Ventures + many leading German VCs like Earlybird, Holtzbrinck, …

Team

• Tekkr is built by techies for techies!
• At our core, we are in love with improvement, learning and growth. We believe things can always be done better!
• You will work directly with the founder Philipp Römer who was previously VP product at forto leading the development of software solutions for global trade, driving the company growth from 80 to >850 forties and achieve a 2bn$ valuation as part of forto's top management team.
• You will also work closely with Barzel Segal, previously EVP Engineering at forto and long-time Silicon Valley tech leader (Workday, Identified, Mindjet…) and Jackie Moyes (ex-VP product at Viacom and Yara)

The hiring process

• VIDEO CALL (30m) - Chat about your background to ensure the role is a good fit + give you an opportunity to ask questions about Tekkr!
• FOUNDER CALL (30m) - Chat about your role as a founding engineer, your motivation and the opportunities at Tekkr
• TAKE-HOME PROJECT [2-3 HR] - Evaluate your technical skills and problem-solving approach through a real-life project based on the Tekkr context
• PROJECT REVIEW [1 HR] - Review your project with the Tekkr tech team (Engineering & Product)

TRIAL - DAY / ONSITE IF POSSIBLE

• Our trial day is meant to simulate what working at Tekkr is like as closely as possible. We love candidates that have researched the space and come prepared with questions about Tekkr.