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Flea

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**At Flea, we empower engineering leaders to build productive, happy teams effortlessly.**

⚠️ **The Problem**: Many companies wrestle with inefficient engineering teams but lack the insights to pinpoint what holds them back. System metrics alone can’t capture the human story, leaving tech leaders without critical context.

💡 **Our Solution:** We believe developers know best. Our platform collects, consolidates, and prioritizes bottom-up, qualitative feedback from the people actually building the product. This gives engineering leaders a holistic view, helping them spot and fix the most pressing issues that prevent their teams from doing their best work with joy.

🚀 **The Journey**: Since our launch in 2024, we’ve completed Berlin’s Reaktor incubator, won our first dozens (paying!) customers among startups and scaleups, built a product loved by our users (78% retention), and raised six-figure investments from successful CTOs and founders behind some of Germany's most notable tech ventures and unicorns.

🤝 **Join the Team**: If you've experienced the frustration of unclear growth paths, inefficient processes, or your feedback getting lost in the void - this is your chance. We're seeking a driven, passionate Founders' engineer. As our first hire, you'll help build the next-gen engineering intelligence platform that gives developers the voice they deserve. Work directly with the two founders to transform how engineering teams communicate and thrive

## Tasks

📝 **Examples of What You Will Do:**

**Collaborate with Founders (20%)**  
Brainstorm new feature ideas to prioritize impactful solutions, and join user interviews to validate concepts before committing resources.

**Own Features End to End (50%)**  
Own features from concept to production. For instance, build a feature that automatically generates clarifying questions for engineers: refine UI/UX with a designer, implement BE and FE, integrate an LLM provider, and oversee deployment.

**Architect the Foundation (15%)**  
Improve our CI/CD pipeline, expand our monitoring capabilities, and tackle cross-cutting concerns like user-rights management.

**Set the Quality Bar (15%)**  
Enforce consistent coding standards, pair-program with teammates, and share best practices for clean, reliable code.

## Requirements

✅ **What Makes You a Great Fit:**

**Passion for Our Mission**  
You’ve personally wrestled with the frustrations developers face and are eager to make those pain points disappear.

**Pragmatic Product Mindset**  
You care about value, keep the user's perspective at the center of decisions, and balance speed and quality.

**Driven and Creative**  
You don’t wait for tasks; you create them when you spot opportunities or issues. You take full ownership of solutions, from concept to deployment. You embrace ambiguity as a chance to experiment with new ideas and tools.

**Team DNA**  
You understand when to steer and when to listen, so the team moves forward together. We thrive on face-to-face collaboration, so we’re in our Berlin office at least four days a week.

**Solid Technical Background**

*   5+ years of Ruby on Rails expertise, full-stack flexibility (Hotwire)
*   You craft intuitive user interfaces and favor elegantly simple backends.

## Benefits

🎁 **What's in it for you?**

*   Competitive salary + equity, we want you to directly benefit from our success.
*   Technical leadership that means something – direct founder collaboration
*   Growth path – develop our engineering org alongside our CTO
*   Modern tech stack – latest Rails ecosystem with room to innovate
*   Prime location in Berlin Schöneberg + flexible remote options
*   Build a product that you would have loved to use in your last roles

If you value pragmatic solutions over perfect abstractions, want to fix poor tech leadership, and are ready to build something that matters, **we want to hear from you**.

We prioritize real-world experience over spotless GitHub profiles: show us how you think, solve problems, and make developers’ lives better.

**Note that while we are rather looking for senior candidates at the moment, we are open to various levels of experience and if in doubt, please apply :)**

**We're stoked to hear from you 🙌**

Employee

Professional / Experienced

At Flea, we empower engineering leaders to build productive, happy teams effortlessly.
⚠️ The Problem: Many companies wrestle with inefficient engineering teams but lack the insights to pinpoint what holds them back. System metrics alone can’t capture the human story, leaving tech leaders without critical context.
💡 Our Solution: We believe developers know best. Our platform collects, consolidates, and prioritizes bottom-up, qualitative feedback from the people actually building the product. This gives engineering leaders a holistic view, helping them spot and fix the most pressing issues that prevent their teams from doing their best work with joy.
🚀 The Journey: Since our launch in 2024, we’ve completed Berlin’s Reaktor incubator, won our first dozens (paying!) customers among startups and scaleups, built a product loved by our users (78% retention), and raised six-figure investments from successful CTOs and founders behind some of Germany&#39;s most notable tech ventures and unicorns.
🤝 Join the Team: If you&#39;ve experienced the frustration of unclear growth paths, inefficient processes, or your feedback getting lost in the void - this is your chance. We&#39;re seeking a driven, passionate Founders&#39; engineer. As our first hire, you&#39;ll help build the next-gen engineering intelligence platform that gives developers the voice they deserve. Work directly with the two founders to transform how engineering teams communicate and thrive
<h2 id="tasks">Tasks</h2>
📝 Examples of What You Will Do:
Collaborate with Founders (20%) Brainstorm new feature ideas to prioritize impactful solutions, and join user interviews to validate concepts before committing resources.
Own Features End to End (50%) Own features from concept to production. For instance, build a feature that automatically generates clarifying questions for engineers: refine UI/UX with a designer, implement BE and FE, integrate an LLM provider, and oversee deployment.
Architect the Foundation (15%) Improve our CI/CD pipeline, expand our monitoring capabilities, and tackle cross-cutting concerns like user-rights management.
Set the Quality Bar (15%) Enforce consistent coding standards, pair-program with teammates, and share best practices for clean, reliable code.
<h2 id="requirements">Requirements</h2>
✅ What Makes You a Great Fit:
Passion for Our Mission You’ve personally wrestled with the frustrations developers face and are eager to make those pain points disappear.
Pragmatic Product Mindset You care about value, keep the user&#39;s perspective at the center of decisions, and balance speed and quality.
Driven and Creative You don’t wait for tasks; you create them when you spot opportunities or issues. You take full ownership of solutions, from concept to deployment. You embrace ambiguity as a chance to experiment with new ideas and tools.
Team DNA You understand when to steer and when to listen, so the team moves forward together. We thrive on face-to-face collaboration, so we’re in our Berlin office at least four days a week.
Solid Technical Background
<ul>
<li>5+ years of Ruby on Rails expertise, full-stack flexibility (Hotwire)</li>
<li>You craft intuitive user interfaces and favor elegantly simple backends.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="benefits">Benefits</h2>
🎁 What&#39;s in it for you?
<ul>
<li>Competitive salary + equity, we want you to directly benefit from our success.</li>
<li>Technical leadership that means something – direct founder collaboration</li>
<li>Growth path – develop our engineering org alongside our CTO</li>
<li>Modern tech stack – latest Rails ecosystem with room to innovate</li>
<li>Prime location in Berlin Schöneberg + flexible remote options</li>
<li>Build a product that you would have loved to use in your last roles</li>
</ul>
If you value pragmatic solutions over perfect abstractions, want to fix poor tech leadership, and are ready to build something that matters, we want to hear from you.
We prioritize real-world experience over spotless GitHub profiles: show us how you think, solve problems, and make developers’ lives better.
Note that while we are rather looking for senior candidates at the moment, we are open to various levels of experience and if in doubt, please apply :)
We&#39;re stoked to hear from you 🙌

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