About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE We're a seed-stage AI voice communication startup headquartered in Vienna, Austria, building an AI phone assistant platform used by thousands of small and medium-sized businesses across Europe. Our product automates inbound and outbound calls, appointment scheduling, customer service inquiries, and more — with a strong focus on the German-speaking market and European data sovereignty. As a Founding Product Engineer, you'll take end-to-end ownership of product features — from hypothesis and prototype through to production.

You'll work at the intersection of engineering and product, keeping close contact with customers and partners to ship pragmatic, high-impact software fast. This is a high-ownership, high-autonomy role at a fast-growing company. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own features end-to-end: from discovery and hypothesis through architecture, implementation, and release. - Lead product discovery by rapidly designing and running experiments to validate ideas before investing in large-scale builds.

- Maintain close, recurring contact with customers, partners, and the Sales team to surface real pain points and translate them into product decisions. - Design and implement tracking and metrics instrumentation to support data-driven iteration. - Build across the full stack, driving architecture decisions and owning implementation through to production. - Balance speed of validation with long-term scalability in every solution you ship.

- Take radical ownership of initiatives — move things forward independently without waiting for sign-offs. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Must-haves (dealbreakers): - 3+ years of experience in Product Engineering, delivering end-to-end software features. - Strong full-stack proficiency with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and React. - Native-level German language proficiency (Deutsch auf Muttersprache-Niveau) — essential for supporting our German-language product and customer base.

Required skills: - Experience integrating software with external systems such as CRMs, calendar applications, and databases. - Ability to gather and synthesize customer feedback into actionable product decisions, working closely with customers, partners, and sales. - Comfort identifying, tracking, and analyzing relevant product metrics to drive data-informed decisions. - Proven experience with the full software development lifecycle — from architecture decisions through to production release.

Nice to have: - Experience integrating AI/LLM features (e.g., OpenAI or similar) into production software. - Familiarity with GDPR compliance and EU AI Act considerations in product development. - Experience thriving in a remote-first, asynchronous collaboration environment. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Salary: €80,000 – €120,000 annually, depending on experience. - Equity: Meaningful equity stake as an early team member.

- Remote-first setup with optional access to a Vienna office. - High-autonomy, high-impact role at an early-stage, fast-scaling company. LOCATION This is a fully remote role, open to candidates based in Germany (primary) or Austria. You should have meaningful overlap with Central European Time (CET). Visa sponsorship is not available.

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