Backend Engineer
Forward-Deployed Software Engineer
Zurich
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The inbox was never built to run a business. Orders get missed, RFQs go cold, and every line gets retyped into the ERP by hand — one email, one PDF, one WhatsApp message at a time. We built AI Coworkers that do most of the repetitive work nobody wants to do instead: they read what comes in, sort it, draft linked actions, and post clean entries straight into the customer's systems of record. The team approves; Hoshii does the rest.
We are the ones driving, train-riding and flying to customers, running the workshops, and staying up past the demo to make the PoC actually work — and we can't scale that forever. We are looking for a Forward-Deployed Software Engineer to become the technical face of Hoshii in front of the companies who actually run on our product: someone who can walk into a customer's office, understand exactly where the manual pain lives, build a working proof of concept in days rather than weeks, and take it all the way to production — then stay accountable for it once it's live. You'll follow Amazon's "you build it, you run it" principle: whatever you ship for a customer, you own operationally too. You will join the founding team building the AI Coworker that operations teams actually run their order desk on.
Tasks
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Run on-site and remote discovery directly with customers: map their order-to-cash workflows, identify the real pain points behind the stated requirements, and translate them into technical scope.
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Build and demo working proofs of concept fast, iterating directly with customer stakeholders rather than through a requirements document.
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Own end-to-end deployment: integrate Hoshii's agents with the customer's ERP/CRM systems, configure the workflow, and take it live in production.
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Follow the
"you build it, you run it"
principle: stay accountable for what you deployed, monitor it in production, and be the first responder when something breaks for that customer. -
Feed field learnings back into the product roadmap — you're often the first to see where the product breaks down against a real workflow, and that signal needs to shape what we build next.
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Work closely with our channel partners to keep the underlying integrations reliable across every customer running on their systems.
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Write clean, tested, maintainable code — you're not just configuring, you're building.
Requirements
We are looking for team players with a growth mindset, an entrepreneurial spirit, and genuine comfort being the person in the room with the customer:
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Strong fullstack coding and debugging skills — comfortable moving across frontend, backend, and infra as the deployment demands — with proven experience building and shipping production software (
Python
,
Javascript/Typescript
, or similar). -
Proven experience building and running
GenAI PoCs
end-to-end: prototyping fast with LLMs/agents, then hardening what works into something a customer can actually run in production. -
Solid understanding of systems and how they integrate — APIs, data pipelines, microservices, event-driven architectures — and the judgment to know where deep integration is worth the effort and where it isn't.
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A pragmatic
80/20 instinct
: you ship the 20% that unblocks the customer's real problem instead of gold-plating the other 80%. -
Experience working directly with customers — PoCs, technical scoping, on-site deployments, or a similar consulting/pre-sales-adjacent engineering background.
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Familiarity with
ERP/CRM systems
is a strong plus. -
Genuinely
product-minded
: you instinctively separate what a customer says they want from what they actually need, and you enjoy shaping the roadmap, not just executing it. -
Excellent communication skills in
English
and
German (C1 or above)
;
Swiss German
is a strong plus. -
Comfortable with regular travel to customer sites across DACH.
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Strong sense of ownership
: you treat what you deploy as yours to run, not just to hand off.
Benefits
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Autonomy and Ownership
: You're in charge of your time at Hoshii; decide what you want to do, align with the team, and go for it! -
Stock Options
: Ever owned your impact? Well, at Hoshii you get stock options, allowing you to get something back from our collective success story. -
A World-Class Team
: We're a team of servant leaders who work hard and put customers first; we hail from top companies and universities, and we hold ourselves to the highest standards. -
Amazing Office Location
: We have a lakeside location in Zürich with cozy corners to relax, fostering a comfortable environment where you can thrive.
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