Forward Deployed Engineer (m/f/d)

Job description

**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.