<p style="min-height:1.5em">Mercura (<strong>YC W25</strong>) helps the companies that build the real world move at software speed, automating the back-office work that runs the <strong>$12 trillion industry</strong> behind every hospital, school, and power plant. We started with one of their biggest bottlenecks - turning messy technical requests into accurate quotes - and grew to <strong>$2M ARR in our first year</strong>. With a team of 16, we're now targeting $10M by the end of 2026 as well as our expansion into the US.<br /><br /></p><h2><strong>About the role</strong> </h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're hiring our first Design Engineer to own the look, feel, and implementation of our product. You'll work closely with our CPO and engineers to design clean, intuitive interfaces for non-technical users and ship them to production yourself. In this role, you will bridge design and engineering end-to-end - speaking directly to customers, turning insight into interfaces, and building them with code.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What you will be working on</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Talk directly to customers, understand their problems, and translate findings into clean product requirements and interface designs</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build prototypes with AI tools and in code to test product hypotheses with customers fast</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Create and implement intuitive, AI-first interfaces that make complex B2B workflows effortless</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the full journey from design to production - working closely with engineers to ship new features</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What we're looking for</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have 2-5 years of experience as a design engineer, product designer, or frontend engineer with a strong portfolio in AI &amp; complex B2B SaaS products</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You love speaking to customers directly to identify pain points and problems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You are highly proficient in AI-tools (Lovable, Cursor, Claude, ...) and Figma to design and prototype fast</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You are comfortable shipping code (React, Typescript, Python) to production - this is as much an engineering role as it is a design role</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You are comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment and want to build something from the ground up</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You want to work in-person from our Munich office or are willing to relocate</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fluent in German and English (our users are mostly German-speaking only)</p></li></ul><h2><strong>About the Founders</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are <strong>Lukas, Stefan &amp; Sean</strong>, the co-founders of Mercura.