Founding AI / Backend Engineer (f/m/x) - We are looking for a Founding AI / Backend Engineer (f/m/x) to start immediately for our client, a company based in the Berlin area.
For this position, the employee in question will work directly for our client. The support, placement and all of our additional services are free of charge for you as the applicant.
You have the opportunity to work in the position (partially) from your home office.
Robert Half has been successfully providing individual personnel services at over 300 locations worldwide for more than 50 years. Experts at Robert Half are passionate about placing you and have specific expertise in the areas of finance and accounting, IT, legal and in the commercial sector. Human interaction is our top priority. Professionalism, honesty, integrity and diversity are the basis of how we think and act.
We value diversity and welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic or social background, religion, disability, age and sexual orientation.
Benefits of our Client:
1. Founding-level influence on architecture, product, and technical direction
2. Competitive pre-seed package: meaningful equity (VSOP)
3. Maximum freedom in tools, architecture, and technical decisions
4. A mission-driven product with real customers, real revenue, and real-world impact
Your Responsibilities as Founding AI / Backend Engineer (f/m/x)
5. Design and implement agent-based backend systems end-to-end, from architecture to production
6. Build and operate distributed Python services (FastAPI) with strong reliability and observability
7. Develop guardrails, orchestration, and recovery mechanisms for LLM-powered workflows
8. Take ownership across the full lifecycle: concept, build, deploy, monitor, improve
Your Qualification and Skills
9. Strong backend engineer (f/m/x) with deep Python experience and system-level thinking
10. Hands-on experience with LLMs, agentic systems, or AI orchestration in real-world setups
11. Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments with high responsibility
12. Motivation to trade short-term certainty for long-term impact and ownership
Have we piqued your interest?
Then apply online as a Founding AI / Backend Engineer (f/m/x) by citing this reference number 06910-0013363934. If you have any questions, Alexander Jourdan from Robert Half will be happy to help you.