Founding Engineer

Zentio — Germany · Posted ~1 day ago

Senior

Skills

React TypeScript REST API design tRPC PostgreSQL Database schema design Indexing Database migrations Query optimization Docker Docker Compose Web Canvas API Cloud platforms Clear communication REST AWS GCP Azure

🔓 Log in to save this job, tailor your resume & track your apply process — 7 days free, no card needed.

Log in to add to target list

Summary

Join an early-stage engineering team with broad ownership and the opportunity to ship end-to-end features across a modern web stack. You will work on complex React interfaces, TypeScript services, PostgreSQL data models, containerized infrastructure, and integrations with industrial systems. Strong React and PostgreSQL expertise, API design skills, and hands-on Docker experience are central to the role.

Highlights

High-agency founding engineering role with end-to-end ownership, broad technical scope across frontend, backend, databases and infrastructure, and significant influence over product architecture and engineering practices.

Description

Zentio provides adaptive, self-optimising production planning software that makes European factories competitive. Tasks Own problems end-to-end and ship. High agency and accountability. You’ll: Ship end-to-end features across the stack: React UI; REST/tRPC services; Postgres; containers. Design/evolve Postgres schemas and migrations; ensure reliability and performance. Build/extend integrations with ERP/MES/SCADA; expose scheduling/constraints via clean APIs. Instrument, test, and monitor what you ship. Requirements You bring (requirements) React proficiency (priority): complex UIs, solid state/rendering fundamentals, DOM manipulation & Web Canvas API. exact past stack is optional. TypeScript; strong API design for REST and tRPC. Postgres (priority): schema modelling, indexing, migrations, query tuning. Docker & Docker Compose (required); cloud exposure (AWS/GCP/Azure). Kubernetes not required. Good eye for web UI; clear, direct communication. Nice to have TanStack Query and TanStack Router/Vite in production. Event/queue/streaming experience; observability fundamentals.