Founding Engineer (m/w/d)

The role

You will build software across the full stack including data pipelines, backend, interfaces, and agents. You will work directly with tax advisors to turn real cases into daily-use tools.

What you will do

• Sit with tax advisors to turn real cases into software
• Build interfaces, dashboards and internal tools
• Ship small and often
• Build pipelines to move data from DATEV and other systems into a data layer
• Define figures to ensure consistency across tools and reports
• Connect systems from acquired firms
• Build agents that automate recurring work
• Make results traceable by version, source and decision

Required qualifications

• A degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering or a related field from a strong university or an equally strong record of your own projects
• Shipped software that other people used at work, as a working student or in your own project
• Write production code in at least one language, ideally Python or TypeScript
• At home with SQL and relational databases
• AI is your everyday tool for writing, reviewing and testing code
• Work in German and in person

Nice to have

• One to two years as an engineer in a young startup or scale-up, or a working-student role where you owned something real
• Knowledge of accounting, tax or DATEV
• Knowledge of data pipelines and agents you have run in production

Benefits

• Examensförderung with 25,000 EUR qualification budget and three months release from work
• 100-percent coverage of childcare
• EGYM Wellpass
• Company pension scheme
• Job-Ticket with 90% subsidy
• Home office equipment and a device of your choice from a catalog
• One book per month from the Vogel canon
• AI tools without token limits or budget caps
• 28 days of vacation
• Daily lunch provided

Before you apply

• Application process includes a written task, a 30-minute interview, a joint working session on a real problem, and an on-site meeting
• AI is expressly allowed for the written task

About the company

Vogel is one of Germany's leading mid-sized consultancies, family-owned since 1959, building a leading consulting platform for the mid-sized sector.