Staff Engineer - Heartbeat AI (m/f/d)

1KOMMA5°

Deine Position

• Own technical direction across Heartbeat AI's engineering domain (Mobile Apps, Energy Data, IoT Platform, and beyond), keeping architecture aligned with product direction

• Accountable for consistent execution of technical decisions within your domain, setting clear direction and holding the team accountable for implementation

• Set the technical bar for the team, stepping into the hardest problems yourself rather than just directing others

• Translate business and product requirements into technical solutions

• Mentor and challenge engineers within Heartbeat AI to accelerate their growth

• Build a high-performing engineering culture within the Heartbeat AI team

• Embed security and reliability as direct customer value

• Architect our systems and APIs so AI agents operate as first-class users with machine-readable contracts and structured errors that let agents self-correct

• Drive Heartbeat AI's shift to agentic engineering, reshaping how the team works so agents execute safely while humans stay accountable

• Own the architecture of the AI systems that power the product itself, from our EMS to our energy tariff

Technologies you will work with include:

• AI-assisted development with Cursor and agentic coding workflows

• Cloud & Infra: Google Cloud Platform, GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud Run, Terraform/IaC, Vercel

• Messaging & IoT: Eclipse Hono, MQTT, Mender

• Data & BI: PostgreSQL, BigQuery, SQLMesh, Looker

• Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry

• Languages: TypeScript (Nest.js, Next.js), Java, Go, Flutter

• DevOps: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

• Linear, Notion, Figma, Miro

Dein Profil

• Extensive hands-on experience in software development with multiple general-purpose programming languages for a minimum of 5 years

• A proven track record of architecting scalable and secure systems, demonstrating a strong commitment to quality

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing APIs that enable seamless integration and system communication

• An agile and result-oriented mindset, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and teamwork

• Experience communicating with stakeholders in business terms and understanding the technical implications of their requirements

• Experience driving technical alignment within a team in fast-paced environments, including making and following through on critical technical decisions

• Experience designing systems and APIs for agent consumption, with structured errors and clear contracts that let agents self-correct

• Capability to guide an engineering team through the shift to agentic engineering, reshaping workflows so agents execute safely while humans stay accountable for every outcome

• Experience architecting AI/ML-driven or data-intensive systems (e.g. forecasting, real-time data pipelines), ideally in an energy or IoT context

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, with proficiency in German considered a plus

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