Founding Product Engineer

Northscope automates the finance profession (accounting and controlling) for mid-market industrial companies. We're turning finance departments from cost centers into strategic partners. The problem: Finance teams spend 85% of their time on manual data crunching instead of strategic work. 40,000 transactions categorized manually every month. 5¿10 days just for month-end close. Copy-paste between SAP, Excel, PowerPoint. We're flipping that to 85% strategic insights, 15% data work. We¿re hiring: 1 Founding Product Engineer (m/f/d) Your Role You're a Founding Product Engineer: product-minded, customer-facing, and hands-on in development. What you'll do * Partner with customers (CFOs, finance teams) to understand workflows and pain points * Translate feedback into product improvements, experiments, and shipped features * Work closely with Founding Team and help drive delivery and prioritization * Build and ship user-facing product features (TypeScript/JavaScript) and backend integrations where needed * Help shape engineering practices early (quality, testing, security, processes) What you'll build (examples) * Workflows that guide finance teams from raw ERP data to insights and reports * Product surfaces for asking questions, reviewing results, and iterating on analyses * Integrations with finance systems (SAP, Dynamics, Excel) * AI-enabled features that fit real enterprise workflows (not demos) What you won't do * Write endless boilerplate CRUD for the sake of it * Wait for perfect specs and Jira tickets * Build "AI features" that don't solve a real customer problem What You Need to Bring Non-negotiables * Strong product orientation: you care about outcomes and users, not just implementation * You enjoy customer collaboration and can communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders * Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills (React/Next.js experience is a plus) * You've shipped products to production before * Solid understanding of security and data governance (enterprise context) * Based in Vienna or willing to relocate (2-3 days/week in office) Strong plus * Experience as a Product Engineer / Product-minded full-stack engineer * You worked with Product Owners or have been one yourself * Experience with B2B SaaS and enterprise requirements * Experience with finance/ERP systems or complex data integrations * Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Terraform (or similar) * Interest in finance/accounting (or willingness to learn) Tech Stack * Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js * Backend: TypeScript/Node.js with Next.js server routes and services; Python for Azure Functions and data-processing jobs * Data: PostgreSQL, pgvector, dbmate migrations * AI: OpenAI/GPT and Claude/Anthropic * Orchestration: In-house LLM routing and workflow orchestration * Infrastructure: Azure, Terraform, containerized deployment, Azure Functions * Integrations: SAP OData/APIs, Azure AD/Microsoft Graph, Excel/XLSX processing and automation What You'll Get Compensation * Minimum salary: €65,000 gross/year, with significant overpayment based on qualifications and experience * Founding team equity package * Higher compensation possible for freelancers (Austria or international) How to Apply Send an email to [email protected] and Florian will contact you. Das Mindestentgelt für die Stelle als Founding Product Engineer (m/f/d) beträgt 65.000,00 EUR brutto pro Monat auf Basis Vollzeitbeschäftigung. Bereitschaft zur Überzahlung.