Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Job

As a key growth accelerator, A11 partners with Europe’s most ambitious startups and scale-ups, corporates and SMBs to connect them with top-tier talent ready to make an impact.

We’re looking for a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer at one of our Ecosystem Companies. You work side by side with the people who run the trade (sales, procurement, logistics, finance and customer success), find where time and money go into manual work, and build the agents, automations and tools that take it over.

Join the A11 Ecosystem – a next-generation supply chain platform redefining how one of the world’s largest industries sources, distributes, and finances materials. Engineered to unlock the full potential of global trade, it harnesses agentic AI and workflow automation to provide seamless, high-efficiency access to premium materials at scale. Since its commercial rollout, the platform has fueled exponential growth, optimizing procurement for thousands of businesses while setting new benchmarks for speed, transparency, and efficiency. Its competitive edge lies in full digitization and AI-driven supply chain management automation, eliminating inefficiencies and creating a direct, intelligent bridge between suppliers and buyers. With a team of 80+ FTEs across Europe (Berlin HQ), China, and India, the company is rapidly scaling toward profitability, driving triple-digit million GMV, and setting new industry standards in autonomous, AI-powered supply chain orchestration.

In this role, you’ll:

• Embed with the business: Spend real time with the commercial and operations teams and map how the work actually gets done. Find the steps that cost the most time, money or mistakes
• Build and ship fast: Build agents, automations, internal tools and data flows, with a first version in days, not months. Bring what works into production together with the product engineers
• Make agents reliable: Add evaluations, guardrails and human review where money or customers are involved. Monitor what you shipped and fix what breaks
• Scale what works: Turn one-off solutions into reusable skills, knowledge bases and components. Help colleagues build with AI themselves
• Close the loop: Measure impact: hours saved, error rates, speed and margin. Feed what you learn into the product roadmap
• Be the bridge: Translate between the business and engineering. Write down decisions and trade-offs so others can build on them

Your Profile:

• At least 3 years of experience building and shipping software, ideally in Python or TypeScript
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agent frameworks, and good judgment about where they work and where they don’t
• You enjoy working with non-technical colleagues: you ask good questions, listen, and explain things simply
• Product sense: you turn a vague problem into a clear first version and improve it with real feedback
• Solid data skills, including SQL, and comfort with messy real-world data such as emails, PDFs and spreadsheets
• Speed with judgment: you ship quickly and know when something needs to be done properly
• Experience in a startup or scale-up. Interest in trade, supply chain or B2B commerce is a plus
• Fluent English. German is a plus
• Please note that we are looking for support in the Berlin office of our client company.

Please note that this position is based in Berlin.

Benefits and Perks:

• Fulfil a role with entrepreneurial freedom and help scale a high-impact business model
• Join an experienced founding team of serial and 2nd-time founders
• Attractive base and bonus compensation program
• Collaboration with top-tier investors and angels (incl. various unicorn founders) as well as leading market experts

If you’re eager to join the A11 Ecosystem and shape what’s next, we want to hear from you!

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A11 is committed to diverse and equal opportunities hiring for all – applicants, candidates, and employees alike. We value humans – with all our glorious multifaceted backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences – and look forward to your application.