Mercura is hiring its first founding Design Engineer to own the product's look, feel, and front-end implementation, working closely with the CPO and engineering team to ship polished experiences. This role bridges design and engineering end-to-end, turning customer insight into AI-first interfaces for complex B2B workflows and shipping them to production. It’s an opportunity to shape product, culture, and technical direction from day one.

What you'll do

• Own the visual design, interaction, and front-end implementation of core product features.
• Collaborate with the CPO and engineers to design clean, intuitive interfaces for non-technical users.
• Speak directly to customers to understand problems and translate findings into product requirements and interface designs.
• Build rapid prototypes with AI tools and in code to validate product hypotheses with users.
• Create and implement AI-first interfaces that simplify complex B2B workflows.
• Ship production-quality code and work closely with engineers to deliver new features end-to-end.
• Contribute as an early team member to shape Mercura’s culture, processes, and product direction.

What Mercura is looking for

• 2–5 years experience as a design engineer, product designer, or frontend engineer with a strong portfolio in AI and complex B2B SaaS.
• Proven customer-facing research and synthesis skills to turn user insight into requirements and designs.
• High proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Lovable, Cursor, Claude) and rapid design/prototyping in Figma.
• Comfortable shipping production code using React, TypeScript, and Python.
• Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment and wants to build from the ground up.
• Willing to work in-person from the Munich office or relocate.
• Fluent in German and English.