Founding Lead Engineer — AI & Workflow Automation
Founders Factory2 months ago
Berlin, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build the first product from scratch across candidate acquisition, qualification, matching, follow-up, and recruiting-workflow integrations.
- Ship LLM and AI-agent functionality, conversational interfaces, and workflow automation to users.
- Connect APIs, databases, messaging tools, and third-party systems.
- Validate the product quickly and improve recruiting efficiency and conversion.
- Work with Founders Factory’s venture team and potentially become the venture’s Technical Co-Founder.
Requirements
- Strong full-stack engineering ability and the capacity to build independently from zero to a working product.
- Experience automating messy, real-world workflows.
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM or AI-agent functionality to users.
- Comfort connecting APIs, databases, messaging tools, and third-party systems.
- Product-minded approach focused on removing work and improving conversion.
- High ownership and entrepreneurial ambition, gained as a founder, early engineer, freelancer, or technical operator.
- Familiarity with the DACH market; German is strongly preferred.
- Relevant experience may include recruitment or HR technology, ATS/CRM integrations, WhatsApp, voice AI, n8n/Make, matching systems, marketplaces, or workflow-heavy SaaS.
Benefits
- Opportunity to build a company from day one with capital and hands-on support from Founders Factory.
- Access to an experienced venture team and a network of founders, operators, corporate partners, and investors.
- Potential to become Technical Co-Founder of an independent venture-backed company.
Tech Stack
Make
Categories
About Founders Factory
Founders Factory is a London-based venture studio, accelerator, and fund that co-founds and backs early-stage startups with capital and hands-on operational support. It partners with large enterprises (e.g., Aviva, Rio Tinto, HSBC) to provide pilots, distribution, and domain expertise, and earns returns through equity in portfolio companies. Founded in 2015, it has backed more than 450 startups across fintech, health, and industrials/deep tech.