Finto

Entrepreneur in Residence

Finto HQ, Munich. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will work directly with the CTO to own loosely defined problems. Initial focus includes customer integrations, solution engineering, and leading strategic customer initiatives.

What you will do

  • Lead strategic customer initiatives
  • Own customer engagements from discovery through delivery
  • Turn recurring customer needs into product roadmap input
  • Drive product and technical discovery
  • Turn open questions into specifications and prototypes
  • Evaluate whether to build, buy, or integrate
  • Improve how engineers work by removing friction from onboarding, permissions, tooling, and internal infrastructure
  • Build secure, self-service workflows
  • Lead practical AI adoption by testing new tools and workflows
  • Train the team on useful AI applications

Required qualifications

  • Built something from scratch and taken responsibility for the outcome
  • Comfortable working through ambiguity without detailed instructions
  • Can understand software architecture
  • Can build prototypes
  • Can work with modern AI and LLM tools
  • Familiar with Node.js
  • Familiar with TypeScript
  • Familiar with integration-heavy systems
  • Worked at startup speed as a founder, early engineer, forward-deployed engineer, or in a Founder’s Office or Chief of Staff role
  • Communicate clearly in German and English

Nice to have

  • Experience with ERP integrations
  • Experience with fintech
  • Experience with developer tooling
  • Experience with customer-facing technical work

Benefits

  • Work with the founders on problems that directly affect customers and the company
  • Take ownership early
  • 25 vacation days
  • Two company-wide recharge days
  • Build relationships through Finto’s Y Combinator and San Francisco network

Before you apply

  • Introductory call with CEO
  • Technical call with CTO
  • 90-minute technical challenge working session
  • Culture interview with CPO
  • Meet the team

About the company

Finto is on a mission to reinvent how enterprises run their finance operations using AI-powered automation. Backed by Y Combinator, they are building the future of enterprise accounting.