Founding Engineer D / F / M

What if… your work empowered tech teams across the world?

Software helps address the world’s biggest challenges from climate crisis to inefficiency in governments. However, many companies and teams are bogged down by their own inefficiencies and struggle to develop technology effectively. Tekkr’s mission is to empower tech teams and their leaders to achieve their full potential! Join tekkr and become a positive multiplier for techies across the globe!

We work primarily with other, cutting-edge startups (Parloa, Orbem, Forto, Vimcar...) and help them get even further ahead. So not only will you work with a kick-ass Tekkr team, but also get real-life exposure to amazing customers and collaborate with their tech leadership on some of their most exciting challenges.

We have built an initial software product based on node.js, react, mongoDB, shadcn and modern AI-tooling (e.g. RAG, langfuse, ...). We are using this product to run real customer engagements and projects to deeply explore customer problems. Our goal : build something people want! We learn super-fast, iterate very quickly and need your help to become even faster! Let's build this company together!

Tasks

As a founding engineer, you will help shape the company's culture, product and vision.

You will be responsible for building our products from the ground up.

You're excited by the opportunity to get in early at a customer-oriented startup and in a unique way. Since we are early-stage, you will wear many hats : figuring out how to best leverage the latest technologies including LLMs, architect, design and build software, iterate and repeat : )

Requirements

• Full stack development skills, ideally in the Tekkr stack : node, react, mongoDB
• Basic design skills : create simple but effective designs and implement them using our design systems (shadcn)
• A hunger and drive to learn, build rapidly and work closely with a tight-knit team that is on a mission to help tech teams achieve their potential
• Some entrepreneurial experience, e.g. freelancing, running your own website-agency, having built your own solutions with real users, leading some type of community in university, …
• The startup attitude - “they did not know it was impossible, so they just did it”
• Full professional proficiency in English, German is a plus
• Berlin-based, we want to start building a local team, then expand for remote work for all
• European work permit required

Benefits

Team

850 forties and achieve a 2bn$ valuation as part of forto's top management team.

The hiring process

TRIAL - DAY / ONSITE IF POSSIBLE

Tekkr enables tech leaders to build unicorn-level tech teams faster

To build a unicorn, tech leaders need to move fast. But today, the reality of scaling is a chaotic, meeting-heavy grind. 80% of startups don't make it from Series A to C. Tekkr is changing that. We're building the definitive Organizational Operating System to empower VC-backed companies to scale faster and with more control.

Our human collaboration engine " projects" is a battle-tested toolkit for tech teams, giving them the ability to plan, align, and execute projects with unprecedented speed. As teams work, our system translates their new processes into a machine-readable configuration layer , a critical link that allows strategic decisions to be instantly acted upon by AI agents.

Our vision : combine this in an orchestration layer , which coordinates activity across both human and AI workforces. With Tekkr human creativity and AI power turn into flawless, system-wide execution. This is how companies win tomorrow!