Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

The role

You will own product and technical problems end-to-end across the frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI pipeline. You will work directly with founders and the grant-writing team to build digital infrastructure for grant funding.

What you will do

• Own features end-to-end from discovery to production
• Turn ambiguous business problems into technical plans and ship versions quickly
• Advance the AI pipeline through prompt engineering, context management, cost control and a multi-provider setup
• Build and own the AI evaluation practice
• Operate, monitor and debug the live production environment
• Make architecture decisions and shape code quality, engineering standards and the technical roadmap
• Build interfaces with a usability-first mindset
• Shorten the time from starting a new project to a finished, submitted application

Required qualifications

• 2+ years working in a senior engineering role
• Track record of owning products or major features end-to-end
• Start-up or scale-up experience
• Several years of professional experience with TypeScript and Node.js
• Solid Postgres depth (JSONB, query performance, migrations)
• Confident across the full stack: Next.js / React Query on the frontend, Express and BullMQ on the backend, AWS (ECS, RDS) for infrastructure
• Hands-on experience building and running AI pipelines in production
• AI-native way of working using tools such as Claude Code or Cursor
• Clear written and spoken English

Nice to have

• German at B1 level or above
• Experience with AI agents and tool-calling workflows in production
• Experience with Terraform

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Professional development opportunities
• Supportive remote work culture

About the company

An early-stage, AI-native German start-up building the digital infrastructure for grant funding. The Global Talent Co. mission is to bridge the gap between leading global tech companies and amazing global talent.