Posted 9 hours ago

Founding Product Engineer

Clera Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Onsite Full Time
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Job description

About the Role

This is a founding-team engineering role at an early-stage B2B energy-tech startup building an AI-powered platform that helps industrial companies optimise their energy procurement and consumption. You'll have end-to-end ownership of the product — from architecture and backend services to customer-facing UI — and a direct hand in shaping the company's technical direction from the ground up.

What You'll Do

  • Own the full product lifecycle from design through deployment.
  • Translate product objectives into concrete requirements in close collaboration with customers.
  • Design simple, iterative solutions to complex energy procurement and data problems.
  • Build performant backend services for a data-intensive, real-time application.
  • Develop intuitive, elegant user interfaces for complex decision-support workflows.
  • Train time-series forecasting models for power consumption and renewables production.
  • Develop linear optimisation algorithms aimed at reducing customer energy costs.
  • Help choose and evolve the core tech stack (PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, Python).

What We're Looking For

  • 2+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable web applications in an early-stage or high-intensity startup environment.
  • Proven ability to own and ship full product features independently, working directly with customers.
  • Strong fundamentals in building robust, maintainable, and scalable web applications across backend and frontend domains.
  • Experience with data-intensive backend services; familiarity with PostgreSQL, Python, TypeScript, and React is a strong plus.
  • Hands-on experience or genuine interest in time-series forecasting and/or linear optimisation.
  • Experience with FastAPI and/or Supabase is welcome but not required.
  • Generalist product-minded engineer; a background as a startup CTO or founder is a meaningful plus.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and direct customer collaboration.
  • Curiosity for energy markets and complex, data-driven business applications.
  • Willingness to work on-site in Munich the majority of the week.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: €85,000 – €140,000 per year
  • Visa sponsorship: Not available

Location

Hybrid — primarily on-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, with flexibility for occasional remote work.

Skills and functions

  • Python
  • React
  • Software Engineering
  • Typescript