Forward Deployed Engineer (DACH)

The role

You will turn signed deals into live AI deployments by building features, integrating software, and structuring customer data. You will engage daily with technical and senior stakeholders to solve problems in real-world environments.

What you will do

• Own the full technical implementation of software from kickoff to go-live
• Build and ship end-to-end features across the stack
• Configure and finetune AI for customer specific use cases
• Bring customer data into shape and build system integrations
• Build prototypes to solve emerging customer problems
• Engage daily with technical, senior stakeholders and users

Required qualifications

• German (C1 level)
• Full-Stack Engineering (Python, React, Typescript, SQL, APIs)
• Data Wrangling
• Practical experience with LLMs, agents, and prompt engineering
• High agency & ownership
• Communication skills to explain technical features to engineers, users and a CFO
• Commitment to being mission-driven
• Scrappiness with ambiguity, imperfect data, and legacy systems
• Willingness to work in-person in Munich with a higher intensity than a 9-5 job

Nice to have

• Experience connecting software to ERP systems, REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks or B2B SaaS implementations

Benefits

• Steepest possible learning curve
• Founder-like freedom in your domain
• Real equity in Mercura
• Company card
• AI or productivity tools
• Free team dinners up to 4x/week
• UrbanSportsClub membership
• A company bike
• Team workouts 3x/week
• Easy relocation to Munich with an apartment next door for around €800/month

Before you apply

• Technical Take-Home exercise
• Technical Interview
• On-Site interview
• 2–3 reference checks

About the company

Mercura (YC W25) helps companies in the real world move at software speed by automating back-office work. The team of 16 targets $10M by the end of 2026.