Backend Engineer
Forward Deployed Engineer (m/f/d)
Berlin
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Berlin · Full-time · Start ASAP
About Limetax
Limetax is building the agentic-first accounting and tax group for German SMEs.
We acquire established accounting and tax advisory firms and onboard them to our proprietary agentic platform, combining deep industry expertise with AI-native technology.
Backed by $40m in equity and debt from top-tier investors, we're building and scaling a new kind of accounting & tax group in Germany.
Our founders bring significant experience across M&A, operations, and AI-native technology, having previously built and scaled unicorns, Razor Group and Augustus.
The Role
As a
Forward Deployed Engineer
, you'll work from our Berlin HQ at the intersection of engineering, product, and operations.
You'll work directly with our tax advisory teams to understand how they operate, identify high-impact opportunities for technology and automation, and build solutions that improve how work gets done.
Rather than building from abstract requirements, you'll work in tight feedback loops with users — understanding workflows, building MVPs fast, deploying them into production, and iterating based on real-world usage.
You're part engineer, part product thinker, and fully hands-on.
Your work will directly shape how our technology and agentic systems are deployed across the Limetax group.
What You'll Work On
- Workflow Discovery.
Work directly with tax professionals to understand complex operational workflows and identify where software and AI can have the biggest impact. - Rapid Prototyping.
Turn operational problems into working MVPs quickly, test them with users, and iterate based on real-world feedback. - Product Engineering.
Build software, internal tools, integrations, automations, and AI-enabled workflows that solve real problems across our firms. - Production Deployment.
Take solutions beyond prototypes and deploy them into live operational environments. - Feedback & Iteration.
Stay close to users after deployment, evaluate what works, and continuously improve the systems you build. - Scaling Solutions.
Turn successful solutions into reliable, repeatable systems that can be rolled out across the Limetax group. - Cross-functional Execution.
Work closely with founders, engineers, operators, and tax professionals to take projects from problem discovery through implementation.
Your Profile
- You are a strong builder.
You have shipped software, automations, or AI-enabled products that real users relied on and are comfortable working across APIs, databases, integrations, and modern development tools. - You have high agency.
You don't wait for perfect requirements or a detailed playbook. You take ambiguous problems, figure out what matters, and drive them from discovery to production. - You are AI-native.
You have built with LLMs, agents, or AI-enabled workflows and understand where AI creates real value — and where humans need to stay in the loop. - You work well with users.
You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, earn trust, and thrive in messy environments with imperfect data, legacy systems, and changing priorities. - You speak professional German and fluent English.
German is essential for working directly with our tax advisory teams across Germany.
Why Limetax
- Real-world impact.
Build systems that are actively used in production and directly change how tax professionals work. - End-to-end ownership.
Own problems from understanding the workflow to building, deploying, and improving the solution. - Tight feedback loops.
Work directly with the people using what you build and see immediately where your solutions create value. - Build applied AI in production.
Deploy AI against complex, real-world workflows rather than isolated demos or theoretical use cases. - Scale across the group.
Build solutions in one environment and turn what works into systems that can be deployed across multiple firms. - Build at an early stage.
Help shape the technology, products, and engineering practices that will define how Limetax scales. - Meaningful upside.
Competitive cash compensation plus meaningful equity.
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