A fast-growing European software group is building a next-generation cloud ERP platform for the trades and construction sector, live in beta with its first customers across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The engineering culture here is AI-native by design: agents do a large share of the typing, and the job is to decompose the problem, steer the tooling, and own the correctness, security and architecture of what ships under your name.

You'll join the small team building this product and own real pieces of it end to end, from concept to production. This isn't a support seat. What you ship reaches real businesses running their working day on it, and you follow it into production rather than handing it off at the door.

What you'll be doing

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	<li>Own significant, well-scoped pieces of the product end to end, from concept through to launch, with real acceptance criteria attached to your name.
	<li>Hold the codebase to a high, maintainable standard, whether you wrote the line yourself or just reviewed it.
	<li>Make sound architectural calls on the work in front of you, and be ready to explain the trade-offs you made.
	<li>Deploy, operate and debug your own services in production, including under time pressure when something breaks.
	<li>Own your service on Kubernetes (or a comparable platform): you read and change its infrastructure definitions yourself.
	<li>Use agentic coding tools on real, complex work: decompose the task, iterate, and review what comes out for correctness, security and fit.
	<li>Treat testing as part of finishing the job, not a separate phase: unit, integration and regression coverage as standard.
	<li>Contribute to technical discussions and help the people around you get better.
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What we're looking for

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	<li>3 to 5 years delivering significant pieces of software end to end, with visible ownership from concept to launch.
	<li>Real production cloud experience, not just development-environment work.
	<li>Hands-on ownership of a service on Kubernetes or a comparable container platform.
	<li>Genuine, hands-on use of agentic coding tools on complex work, not just casual, personal use.
	<li>Comfortable across TypeScript and Node, React, REST APIs and a relational database, or able to become so quickly.
	<li>Professional-level German and good English.
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Nice to have

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	<li>Exposure to multitenant systems or tenant separation.
	<li>Experience in trades, construction or a comparable vertical.
	<li>Having worked on established software as well as new development.
	<li>Data or analytics engineering exposure.
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Location: Berlin preferred, remote considered across Germany.

Software Engineer

One of Europe's fastest-growing software groups is building a next-generation cloud ERP platform for the trades and construction sector, already live with its first customers across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It's genuinely greenfield: built on the group's own platform rather than bolted onto an existing product, which means the architecture, the tooling and the engineering culture are being defined right now, not inherited. AI-assisted development sits at the center of how the team builds, not as an add-on.

We're hiring the sole technical lead for this product: the person who owns its technical direction as it moves from first customers to real scale. You won't manage people. You'll set how the team builds, the architecture, the tooling, the standards, and the AI-native practice that runs through all of it.

What you'll be doing

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	<li>Own architecture decisions end to end: data modelling, APIs, security and multi-tenant separation, on a product built from scratch on modern infrastructure.
	<li>Design and evolve complex, scalable systems, and drive the improvements yourself rather than waiting to be handed them.
	<li>Build and embed the team's AI-assisted development practice: spec-driven workflows, agent conventions and review standards for AI-generated code.
	<li>Set and enforce engineering standards across coding, testing, deployment, monitoring and operational readiness, backed by real quality gates in CI.
	<li>Translate business and stakeholder needs into technical solutions, and make the calls on quality versus delivery dates.
	<li>Be the technical voice in the room with both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
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What we're looking for

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	<li>7+ years building and running cloud-native systems in production, across more than one system, not a single migration.
	<li>Genuine infrastructure-as-code experience at scale: containerised workloads, versioned infrastructure, and ownership of your own delivery pipeline.
	<li>Experience operating systems that a real, meaningful customer base depends on, and the ability to talk through what broke, what you changed and what you'd do differently.
	<li>Established use of AI across the development lifecycle, not just personal use. You've set the practice for others, not only followed it yourself.
	<li>A track record as a multiplier: engineers around you got better because of your review, your mentoring or the standards you put in place.
	<li>Comfortable across TypeScript and Node, React, REST APIs and PostgreSQL, or able to pick this up fast.
	<li>Professional-level German and good English. The product runs on German statutory formats, so this one is non-negotiable.
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Nice to have

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	<li>Experience in trades, construction or a comparable operationally complex vertical.
	<li>Experience modernising established software alongside new development.
	<li>Having introduced AI-assisted development practices to a team that wasn't using them yet.
	<li>Data platform or analytics engineering exposure.
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Location: Berlin preferred, remote considered across Germany.

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Sam joins our EU Perm team as a Senior Consultant. He has over 2 years recruiting into Germany, focusing on the Microsoft Environment with C#.NET & Cloud. 

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