Founding Product Engineer (m/f/d)

Northscope automates the finance profession (accounting and controlling) for mid-market industrial companies. We're turning finance departments from cost centers into strategic partners.

The problem: Finance teams spend 85% of their time on manual data crunching instead of strategic work. 40,000 transactions categorized manually every month. 5¿10 days just for month-end close. Copy-paste between SAP, Excel, PowerPoint.

We're flipping that to 85% strategic insights, 15% data work.

We¿re hiring: 1 Founding Product Engineer (m/f/d) Your Role

You're a Founding Product Engineer: product-minded, customer-facing, and hands-on in development.

What you'll do

• Partner with customers (CFOs, finance teams) to understand workflows and pain points

• Translate feedback into product improvements, experiments, and shipped features

• Work closely with Founding Team and help drive delivery and prioritization

• Build and ship user-facing product features (TypeScript/JavaScript) and backend integrations where needed

• Help shape engineering practices early (quality, testing, security, processes)

What you'll build (examples)

• Workflows that guide finance teams from raw ERP data to insights and reports

• Product surfaces for asking questions, reviewing results, and iterating on analyses

• Integrations with finance systems (SAP, Dynamics, Excel)

• AI-enabled features that fit real enterprise workflows (not demos)

What you won't do

• Write endless boilerplate CRUD for the sake of it

• Wait for perfect specs and Jira tickets

• Build "AI features" that don't solve a real customer problem

What You Need to Bring

Non-negotiables

• Strong product orientation: you care about outcomes and users, not just implementation

• You enjoy customer collaboration and can communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders

• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills (React/Next.js experience is a plus)

• You've shipped products to production before

• Solid understanding of security and data governance (enterprise context)

• Based in Vienna or willing to relocate (2-3 days/week in office)

Strong plus

• Experience as a Product Engineer / Product-minded full-stack engineer

• You worked with Product Owners or have been one yourself

• Experience with B2B SaaS and enterprise requirements

• Experience with finance/ERP systems or complex data integrations

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Terraform (or similar)

• Interest in finance/accounting (or willingness to learn)

Tech Stack

• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js

• Backend: TypeScript/Node.js with Next.js server routes and services; Python for Azure Functions and data-processing jobs

• Data: PostgreSQL, pgvector, dbmate migrations

• AI: OpenAI/GPT and Claude/Anthropic

• Orchestration: In-house LLM routing and workflow orchestration

• Infrastructure: Azure, Terraform, containerized deployment, Azure Functions

• Integrations: SAP OData/APIs, Azure AD/Microsoft Graph, Excel/XLSX processing and automation

What You'll Get

Compensation

• Minimum salary: €65,000 gross/year, with significant overpayment based on qualifications and experience

• Founding team equity package

• Higher compensation possible for freelancers (Austria or international)

How to Apply

Send an email to founders@northscope.at and Florian will contact you. Das Mindestentgelt für die Stelle als Founding Product Engineer (m/f/d) beträgt 65.000,00 EUR brutto pro Monat auf Basis Vollzeitbeschäftigung. Bereitschaft zur Überzahlung.