Founding Engineer

Job description

NOTE: We sponsor B permits for EU/EFTA residents & Claude Max subscription 🔥 If you think AI is a gimmick, this role isn't for you. If you think AI can replace great engineers, this role isn't for you either. ---- We believe AI doesn't create talent. It amplifies it. Used poorly, it generates an exponential amount of technical debt. Used well, it becomes a team of eager junior engineers capable of executing at machine speed. The quality of the outcome depends on how well you organize them, guide them, and review their work. ---- We're building Lonio, an AI-native backoffice outsourcing service for Swiss finance & HR. Most companies see AI as a product opportunity. We do too. But we believe the bigger opportunity lies in execution. The companies that master AI-native engineering and product development will build faster, learn faster, and out-execute competitors still operating with traditional processes. That's the company we're building. Not just an AI product company. An AI-native service company. Want to know how to build it? Watch this . This is not a classical start-up, we are a spin-off out of BLP Digital, the fastest-growing AI scale-up in Europe. Tasks You should be excited by Building a product that automates complex compliance workflows. Figuring out how AI changes the way software is built. You'll work directly with the senior founders to tackle both. Some problems will look like product engineering. Some will look like AI engineering. Some will look a lot like research. You'll help us build product features, improve AI-powered workflows, and continuously push the boundary of what can be automated. As we grow, you'll help shape the product, the architecture, and the engineering culture of the company. Requirements We're less interested in your credentials than your trajectory. We don't have a predefined model of what a great engineer looks like. Great engineers come from different backgrounds, think differently, and solve problems differently. What matters to us is that you: Are excited by the idea that AI is changing how software is built. Have strong engineering fundamentals. Learn quickly. Take ownership. Enjoy solving difficult problems. Care about outcomes more than titles. Want to build one of the first Swiss AI-native service companies, not just a product. Are customer-oriented, product-driven, understand the business domain, and make it a first-class citizen of the engineering work. If you're unsure whether you qualify, we'd still encourage you to apply. Benefits Be the first engineer after the founders. Shape the product, architecture, and engineering culture from day one. Receive equity options and participate directly in the value you help create. Join a company with paying customers, a working MVP, and strong early market validation. Operate in a market sized at CHF 3 billion annually in Switzerland alone. Help build a company designed from day one to be AI-native service. We're flexible on titles, backgrounds, and compensation structures. A final note from the CTO. One thing I've learned is that engineering problems are often easier than organizational problems. Many engineers spend years working around unclear requirements of business teams that don't fully understand the problems they're trying to solve. That's not the situation here. Our CEO knows the domain, knows the customers, knows the problems. If you're looking for a startup where engineering and business genuinely work hand in hand, you might enjoy working with us. Cheers, Lauriane & Nick