Founding Engineer

Job description

Referral bonus: If you know someone exceptional feel free to connect us via LinkedIn (Dennis Agidigbi), if we end up hiring them for a full-time role, you'll receive 10,000€. 🌍 About Zauber After co-founding and scaling Forto to over $600M in funding, I took a step back to reflect on what’s still broken in global logistics. The answer was clear: it’s still a human-first, spreadsheet-heavy industry, full of repetitive processes and broken system interoperability. With the rise of AI agents, we now have the tools to rethink that from the ground up. Zauber builds autonomous agents for the global logistics industry, AI workers that handle operational tasks, talk to systems and humans alike, and get better every day. 🚢 We're already live with global logistics leaders in Europe and Asia 💰 Backed by P9 - one of Europe's top early-stage funds 📈 Growing fast and hiring exceptional engineers to join early Now we are looking for an exceptional Founding Engineer to help us define and build the next generation of AI-powered logistics systems. 🧠 What You'll Do You will help turn vision into product and bring our first AI agents into the hands of real users. This is a high-ownership role, working closely with the founding team and customers to build something truly new. You'll operate across the full stack—talking to customers one hour and debugging an agent loop the next—making the foundational technical decisions that define what the product becomes. • Talk directly to customers and translate their needs into product direction and system architecture • Build full-stack features that combine intuitive interfaces with intelligent backend logic, including LLM orchestration, agent workflows, and structured data pipelines • Push the limits of what LLMs and agents can do in production, working through the hard problems of reliability, latency, and evaluation • Scale from demo-quality code to robust, production-ready systems, making deliberate tradeoffs between speed and durability as the product matures • Help shape the technical vision and product strategy of the company 👤 You Might Be a Fit If You... • Have experience taking full ownership of technical projects, from architecture through to delivery and iteration • Are pragmatic and fast in the early days, but know when to raise the bar for scale and quality • Love writing and shipping code, and are not afraid to thro…