Lead AI Software Engineer

Lead AI Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Preferred Location: Munich, Vienna

Accepted Location: Germany, Austria

Compensation: EUR 90.000 - 110.000 gross annual base salary

Department: Responsible for Tech, Infrastructure & AI

Reports to: CPTO & Co-Founder

Headcount: Company wide: 20 FTE, Tech Department: 2-3 Engineers

Your Mission:

Our customer is a Legal-tech B2B SaaS company that can protect any product on the internet (Remove.tech).

Remove.tech grew from 0 to 1.2M in ARR within 3 years and is a bootstrapped remote first company founded in Vienna, Austria.

The founders are looking for an ambitious Sr. Engineer who takes ownership of the technical side of the product.

Your first half-year might look like this:

After 1 month you’ll

• Finished the company onboarding
• Have met your entire team and understood the product and how our customers are using it
• Spent time shadowing your team, the founders and talked to customers directly
• Understand the company strategy, mission, value proposition and 2025 targets
• Dive deep into existing architecture and codebase

After 3 months you’ll

• Have identified low-hanging fruits based on your discovery and previous experience and implement short-term wins
• Have built a foundation of trust with your peers and team to be able to take ownership of decisions
• Having a rough plan on the tech strategy to deliver 10x growth in 5 years based on the time you spend with customers, your team and the founders
• Understood the tech infrastructure and code
• Ship code weekly

After 6 months you’ll

• Have a clear tech strategy in mind to achieve 10x growth in 5 years
• Proactively shape the company's direction, goals and objectives on the tech side
• Have re-structured the code base and took full ownership of all tech-contributing activities

Your Responsibilities

• Own and evolve core backend services (crawler, data collection, AI services, user services)
• Design for scalability, maintainability, and robustness
• Shape and challenge the existing architecture (C#/.NET services with a Node.js layer)
• Build and launch standards for code quality, testing, monitoring, and alerting
• Translate complex product and AI requirements into reliable backend solutions
• Work hands-on with .NET/C#, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, React/TypeScript
• Act as technical backbone for external developers and future engineering hires
• Collaborate closely with founders, product, and customers
• Contribute to hiring by defining technical expectations and evaluating candidates

Your profile

• Fluent in a typed backend language (ideally C#/.NET)
• Comfortable working with Node.js as integration or service layer
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and messaging systems
• End-to-end mindset: architecture, implementation, testing, monitoring
• High code quality standards and documentation discipline
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in product-driven startups or scale-ups
• Hands-on attitude with a desire to take ownership of tasks and responsibilities;
• Proven experience in customer centric and agile environments
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities
• Desire to work in fast-paced scale-up and passion to work with digital products and services
• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate insights into actionable technical strategies and operational plans.
• Curiosity for AI-driven products and data-heavy systems
• Strong ownership mentality and bias for execution
• English required; German is a plus

What you’ll get:

• Core technical role in a fast-growing B2B SaaS product solving a complex problem, no one in the industry solved: 100% automation of finding and removing counterfeits online
• Clear path towards Tech Lead responsibility
• High autonomy and trust-based environment
• Exposure to technically demanding problems (large-scale crawling, AI, data pipelines)
• Remote-first setup within DACH
• Flat hierarchies and direct access to founders
• State-of-the-art hardware and software

About Us

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