Forward Deployed Engineer - Germany

ERPs ran the physical world for half a century. Dryft is building the intelligence layer that will power the next.

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THE ROLE

As our Forward Deployed Engineer , you split your time 50/50 between engineering and customer interaction. No role will teach you more about becoming a great founder, listener & builder. One day you're integrating a legacy ERP, the next you're on a flight to a shop floor in Mexico, and in between you ship the fix. You'll navigate stakeholders from IT to the C-level, all at once, and nothing really prepares you for it.

• Lead full-stack rollouts – own implementations end-to-end, from scoping and onboarding to integration and training, and align IT teams, engineers and C-level execs across Germany, the EU and the US
• Design the product backbone – work hands-on with users, translate their pain into product improvements, and prototype features yourself, ideally writing production code when needed
• Turn operations into product – every deployment becomes a blueprint for scale: you turn what you learned into reusable product features, data models and playbooks, and grow into roles like CPO or COO

This is a high-ownership, zero-handholding role, and only for someone who loves turning complexity into clarity and ships working solutions under pressure.

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YOU

• Fast-paced experience – 2+ years in a top-tier role (e.g., consulting), as a founder, or as an early employee in a high-growth startup, with a technical degree or background
• Engineer first – you write production code, understand systems end-to-end, and when something breaks at a customer, you find the root cause
• Industrial background – experience in manufacturing, industrial software, procurement, supply chain or another industrial domain is a plus
• Product-minded – you listen to rants about ERP, nod wisely, and somehow turn them into product features that feel like magic
• Quality-obsessed – you hold yourself to a high bar, dive deep into problems, and care about getting it right, not just getting it done
• Ultra-professional & detail-obsessed – you earn trust with structure, polish, and docs so clean even a CTO stops asking questions
• Crisis communicator – when things get hard, people look to you; you calm an impatient exec, win over a skeptical IT leader, and still crack a joke in the middle of it
• Down-to-earth & relatable – you bond with shop-floor operators as easily as with boardroom execs, and you'll put on the safety shoes without being asked
• Language – you're fully fluent in German and English
• Relocation – you're ready to work onsite in Munich (we support visa), with 10 to 30% travel

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TECH STACK

• FE (TypeScript): React, Chakra UI v3, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Vite
• BE (Python): FastAPI with Pydantic v2, Temporal, Postgres with pgvector, dagster
• AI: Pydantic AI, Langfuse

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Posted Nov 01, 2026

Posted Nov 01, 2026