Location: Berlin, Germany (office first)

Start date: Immediately

Contact: [email protected]

The Role

As a Staff AI Product Engineer at Forgent AI, you’ll turn complex user needs within the public procurement sector into deeply engineered, user-facing AI applications. You’ll design scalable systems that seamlessly connect LLM-powered intelligence with full-stack product experiences. This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage, mission-driven company and influence its architecture, culture, and long-term direction from the ground up.

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our product and technology — designing systems that are robust, elegant, and impactful for a domain where reliability and precision truly matter. You’ll work side-by-side with founders and top engineers, taking full ownership from concept to deployment in an environment that values speed, craftsmanship, and clarity of thought.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and iterate on full-stack features using our stack — Frontend: Vite, TypeScript, React, Tailwind; Backend: Python (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy); Infra: AWS — integrating LLMs to solve real user problems while optimizing for performance, reliability, and security.
• Architect and evolve core systems, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and clean interfaces between components. This requires strong foundations in asynchronous workflows and workloads. Familiarity with orchestration tools like Temporal is a strong plus.
• Collaborate closely with founders and customers to deeply understand challenges and translate them into technical solutions that deliver measurable impact.
• Own features end-to-end, from technical design to deployment and iteration, while raising the bar for code quality and operational excellence.
• Contribute to engineering culture through reviews, design discussions, and technical presentations — fostering continuous learning and high-performance standards.
• Identify and lead improvements across the stack, architecture, and team processes — taking initiative to solve problems before they arise.

Who You Are

• Are a highly skilled full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience building and scaling reliable systems — with strong foundations in architecture, system design, and API best practices. Of these, you should have at least 5 years of experience testing/launching products and 3 years of experience with software architecture/design. Note: We make exceptions for truly exceptional talent.
• Have proven ability to translate complex ideas into robust, real-world applications, ideally in secure, data-intensive, or high-availability domains.
• Show strong signs of performance and ambition — e.g., founding or leading a startup, major contributions to respected open-source projects, or leading complex systems at scale.
• Thrive in high-intensity, high-ownership environments where speed and quality both matter.