Forward Deployed Engineer (m/f/d)
Limetax
<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Berlin · Full-time · Start ASAP</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br /><strong>About Limetax</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Limetax is building the agentic-first accounting and tax group for German SMEs.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We acquire established accounting and tax advisory firms and onboard them to our proprietary agentic platform, combining deep industry expertise with AI-native technology.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our founders bring significant experience across M&A, operations, and AI-native technology, having previously built and scaled unicorns, Razor Group and Augustus.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br /><strong>The Role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As a <strong>Forward Deployed Engineer</strong>, you'll work from our Berlin HQ at the intersection of engineering, product, and operations.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You're part engineer, part product thinker, and fully hands-on.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Your work will directly shape how our technology and agentic systems are deployed across the Limetax group.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br /><strong>What You'll Work On</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Workflow Discovery.</strong> Work directly with tax professionals to understand complex operational workflows and identify where software and AI can have the biggest impact.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Rapid Prototyping.</strong> Turn operational problems into working MVPs quickly, test them with users, and iterate based on real-world feedback.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Product Engineering.</strong> Build software, internal tools, integrations, automations, and AI-enabled workflows that solve real problems across our firms.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Production Deployment.</strong> Take solutions beyond prototypes and deploy them into live operational environments.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Feedback & Iteration.</strong> Stay close to users after deployment, evaluate what works, and continuously improve the systems you build.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Scaling Solutions.</strong> Turn successful solutions into reliable, repeatable systems that can be rolled out across the Limetax group.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Cross-functional Execution.</strong> Work closely with founders, engineers, operators, and tax professionals to take projects from problem discovery through implementation.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br /><strong>Your Profile</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You are a strong builder.</strong> 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.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You have high agency.</strong> 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.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You are AI-native.</strong> 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.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You work well with users.</strong> You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, earn trust, and thrive in messy environments with imperfect data, legacy systems, and changing priorities.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You speak professional German and fluent English.</strong> German is essential for working directly with our tax advisory teams across Germany.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Why Limetax</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Real-world impact.</strong> Build systems that are actively used in production and directly change how tax professionals work.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>End-to-end ownership.</strong> Own problems from understanding the workflow to building, deploying, and improving the solution.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Tight feedback loops.</strong> Work directly with the people using what you build and see immediately where your solutions create value.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build applied AI in production.</strong> Deploy AI against complex, real-world workflows rather than isolated demos or theoretical use cases.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Scale across the group.</strong> Build solutions in one environment and turn what works into systems that can be deployed across multiple firms.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build at an early stage.</strong> Help shape the technology, products, and engineering practices that will define how Limetax scales.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Meaningful upside.</strong> Competitive cash compensation plus meaningful equity.</p></li></ul><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>