Founding Engineer

About Super44

We’re building the agentic copilot for local businesses.

If you love your local coffee shop, book store, restaurant, boutique, or just good old off-license, this is your chance to help them not just survive, but actually thrive.

We’re two repeat operators obsessed with building a “super-powered” sidekick for small business owners that orchestrates their tools and monitors their data to not only automate existing tasks, but change them and even come up with entirely new ones: let ordinary people create extraordinary outcomes. (alternatively: "Imagine Tony Stark's suit, just anyone gets to use one. Superpowers without the capes."

We've just raised our pre-seed round, hired a founding engineer and now we’re now looking for two founding engineers to make the team 5 in total.

The role

As a Founding Engineer at Super44 you will:

Ship end-to-end: napkin sketch → prototype → live with real merchants in half a day.

• Build multi-agent, multi-model, multimodal systems that feel like magic and don’t break.
• Jump across the stack: product, backend, AI agents, data pipelines and infra.
• Working with rich business data, smart context management, and combining APIs and datasets to provide insights that drive real action (e.g. “boost revenue by 5% through smart pricing”).
• Co-create our engineering culture: tech stack, tooling, quality bar, and how we ship. This is not a “feature team” role. You’ll be building core product and company, side by side with us.

You might be a fit if…

• You’re high-horsepower – you think from first principles, learn fast and like hard problems.
• You’ve built real things end-to-end before, ideally in your own project or an early-stage startup.
• You can go full-stack (or close): backend, some frontend, AI/automation – whatever it takes to ship.
• You love vibe coding and rapid iteration, but still know when real engineering rigor matters.
• You’re energized by ambiguity and the “no playbook yet” phase.
• You’re up for working really hard on something that matters, with people you genuinely like.
• You want a tight-knit crew where every team member really matters

What we offer

• Day 0 impact: Be #2/#3 employee of a startup with the ambition to become the operating system for millions of local business around the world
• Competitive salary and competitive equity – we don’t want anyone joining us to choose between the two.

Location: Cologne–Bonn region, building together in person. We have Superhouse, a hackerhouse overlooking the Rhein if you need accommodation.

How we work

We’re in full builder mode: working all the time we reasonably can, but focused on sustainable intensity.

We like to:

• Cut to the chase and always assume good intent.
• Have strong opinions loosely held
• Push each other to new heights and offer support along the way

If this sounds like you, send us a short note about something you’ve built that you’re proud of (including links/github if you can).

We’d love to meet you.