Founding Product Engineer

Location: Switzerland · Type: Full-time · Equity About us We’re building an AI-powered B2B SaaS platform helping FMCG brands manage Key Accounts, activations, stores, execution, trade budgets and market intelligence in one workspace. We’re a small, ambitious founding team building from 0 → scale. We’re looking for someone who wants real ownership, meaningful equity and a seat at the table. The role As our Founding Product Engineer, you’ll work directly with the founders and play a central role in shaping, building and shipping the product. You do not start from scratch - the basic of the product is built and you would take it to the next level. This is not a traditional Product Manager or Software Engineer role. You’ll combine product thinking, business understanding and hands-on engineering. You will: Work directly with the founders to identify the highest-value customer problemsTurn problems into simple, scalable product solutionsOwn features end-to-end: problem → specification → build → launch → iterationBuild and ship production features yourselfUse AI-native development workflows to move extremely fastWork closely with our engineering team and raise the product and technical quality barHelp shape our product architecture and technical directionThink commercially: Would customers pay for this? Does it solve a real problem? Can it scale?Speak directly with customers when needed and translate feedback into product decisions Technical background You should be a strong full-stack Next.js developer with excellent product instincts.Strong Next.js, React and TypeScriptComfortable building REST APIs / server actionsSolid Postgres and ORM experienceUnderstanding of authentication and application architectureComfortable with Git workflows and Vercel deploymentExperience integrating third-party APIs and AI servicesHighly proficient with AI coding tools and modern AI development workflowsNice to have: Supabase, Tailwind, CI/CD You don't need to know every technology perfectly. What matters is that you can learn fast, use AI effectively and turn an idea into a working product quickly. The person we're looking for You are a builder, not just a managerYou have strong technical fundamentals and excellent product judgmentYou move fast without sacrificing good engineeringYou naturally think about customers, business models and scalabilityYou are comfortable with ambiguity and taking ownershipYou don't wait for perfectly defined tickets — you help define what should be builtYou want to work closely with founders and have influence over major decisionsYou are excited by the idea of building something that could become a large, category-defining B2B SaaS company What we offer Equity with real upsideA genuine seat at the table alongside the foundersSignificant ownership over product and technical directionHigh autonomy and very little bureaucracyThe opportunity to build an AI-native SaaS company from the ground upA fast-moving environment where what you ship directly impacts the company Important You must be based in Switzerland and able to work closely with the founding team (sometimes in person in our Lucerne office).