Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (m/f/d) | Integration & Automation | Full-time

Help us build the future of public administration!

Ayunis is a Munich-based GovTech company trusted by more than 1000 cities, municipalities and districts across the DACH region.

With Ayunis Core, we are building an open-source AI platform that automates repetitive administrative work. We use cutting-edge AI and engineering tools to build cutting-edge agentic technology—both for our customers and for our own development workflows.

Tasks

Your role

As our first Forward Deployed Engineer , you implement customer projects on Ayunis Core: you connect it to the systems our customers work with every day and build the automations that run on top of them. Our go-to-market team scopes each project with the customer; you take it from there and deliver it in direct collaboration with the customer's specialist departments and IT .

You are a builder first , but not a ticket taker . Before you build, you check whether the problem is well defined and whether the planned solution actually solves it. Working closely with customers, you recognize further opportunities and feed them back.

Because you are the first in this role , you also build the foundation for a team: how we deliver, what we reuse and how the next Forward Deployed Engineers get productive quickly.

Your responsibilities

• Implement defined customer projects end to end, from technical design to production, in direct collaboration with the customer.
• Build connections between Ayunis Core and customer systems such as document management systems, council information systems, specialist applications and identity providers, typically as MCP servers around existing APIs.
• Build customer-specific agents and automations on Ayunis Core.
• Challenge project scopes before implementation: check that the problem is well defined, flag gaps early and propose better solutions where you see them.
• Work with customers' IT departments, municipal data centres and software vendors to get access, permissions and security approvals in place.
• Own what you deploy: reliability, monitoring and support for the integrations you build.
• Set up the delivery practice: project templates, reusable connectors, documentation, estimation and handover to support.
• Spot recurring patterns across projects and, together with Product and Engineering, turn them into marketplace integrations and platform features.
• Help hire and onboard future Forward Deployed Engineers.

Requirements

What you bring

• Senior experience as a software engineer building and operating production systems, ideally with TypeScript and Node.js.
• Hands-on experience integrating external systems: REST and SOAP APIs, OAuth/OIDC, webhooks, file-based interfaces and synchronization.
• Experience building with LLMs and agents, including tool calling, MCP, prompt design and evaluating results.
• Comfort with Docker, Linux, networking and the security basics of connecting systems across organizational boundaries.
• A track record of delivering projects for or with customers, including handling scope, timelines and expectations.
• The judgement to question a requirement when it doesn't fit the problem, and the pragmatism to ship when it does.
• Experience building up structure where there was none: processes, reusable tooling or a team.
• Fluent German ( C1 or higher! ) and good English is required.
• Experience with public-sector IT (e.g. DMS such as enaio or d.velop, XÖV standards, municipal data centres) is helpful but not required.

Our stack

TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, React, TanStack, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3-compatible storage, Docker Compose, Hetzner, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry and multiple LLM providers.

No LangChain though – we've built our agent orchestration from the ground up.

Benefits

What we offer

• A competitive salary
• €2,000 annual personal development budget
• 30 days of holiday
• Significant influence over an open-source product and engineering organization
• Flexible working hours, hybrid work and EU workations
• Modern Munich office and equipment
• Regular team events and off-sites
• Public transport subsidy and Wellpass

Interested? We look forward to hearing from you.