Lead Product Engineer

MEONDI is a corporate partner for digitalization and new working structures. We guide our customers holistically through innovation and transformation processes as well as agile product development.
With MEONDI Frontier Services, we specifically focus on new technologies and the opportunities they create for companies. We not only advise our customers but also develop new concepts together with them, validate them early on, and implement concrete digital products and solutions.
Our ambition is to understand new technological possibilities early, apply them meaningfully to real problems, and develop solutions that actually work in everyday life.
Do you want to do more than just process tickets, but take responsibility for turning a product idea into a robust software product?
As a Lead Product Engineer, you are a central part of MEONDI Frontier Services and will shape with us how we technically conceive and implement new products. You will bring the technical perspective into important decisions from the very beginning and take responsibility for the consequences of these decisions.
You will not be working in a pre-defined role with clearly defined tasks. You will actively shape the technical side of our product business, set standards, make architectural decisions, and build yourself. As our products scale successfully, your area of responsibility will also grow.
You combine solid software engineering with a practical understanding of AI products and agentic systems. You know where AI can be used meaningfully, where classic software logic remains necessary, and how both come together to form stable, scalable, and economically viable products.

Additional willingness to travel is required and depends on the respective customer project. Depending on the project, you will work regularly and possibly several days a week on-site with the customer. Remote work is generally possible, provided the respective project and customer requirements allow it. Furthermore, you should be willing to be present regularly at MEONDI, especially in the Stuttgart area, and to participate in internal MEONDI events and community meetings.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for, starting as soon as possible:

Lead Product Engineer

• Assess technical feasibility: Evaluate opportunities early regarding architecture, risks, effort, and implementability.
• Take technical responsibility: Translate product specifications into viable technical solutions and make key architectural decisions.
• Develop software hands-on: Build productive software yourself – from frontend to backend and data storage to interfaces and operation.
• Ensure production readiness: Consider stability, scalability, security, DevOps, observability, maintainability, and operation from the outset.
• Transfer prototypes to products: Technically contextualize rapid validations and develop robust, long-term sustainable systems from them.
• Develop AI-native software systems: Understand where AI is used meaningfully, where classic software logic remains necessary, and how both come together to form stable products.
• Advance AI-assisted software development: Practically apply, critically evaluate, and meaningfully integrate modern coding agents and new engineering approaches into development work.
• Shape engineering standards: Co-build architecture principles, tooling, development processes, and quality standards for Frontier Services.

• You have a robust track record with software used in production.
• You have already taken responsibility for software and know the requirements that arise from it in real-world operation.
• You have experience in a product environment or a comparable situation with real skin in the game for the quality, benefit, and operation of the software.
• You can independently structure open and incompletely defined problems, develop solution approaches, and determine the right next steps.
• You cannot hide behind large teams or narrowly defined tickets but take ownership of the result.
• You possess a strong full-stack understanding and can develop complete applications independently.
• You have a secure grasp of the fundamentals of modern software development – from databases, APIs, and architecture to testing, cloud, deployment, security, and operation.
• You have practical experience with LLMs, AI agents, and AI-based applications and understand how they interact with classic software logic.
• You productively use coding agents and AI-assisted development tools and can realistically assess their possibilities and limitations.
• You combine high quality standards with pragmatism. You avoid both over-engineering and short-term solutions whose consequences others will have to bear later.
• You enjoy working hands-on and validate technical decisions in code and in real systems.
• English: very good, fluent negotiation skills.
• German: a clear advantage, but not a prerequisite.

Freedom to shape and responsibility
You will take on a central role in building our future product business. You will have significant influence on architecture, toolchain, engineering principles, and technical direction.

Culture and collaboration
At MEONDI, you can expect a culture characterized by openness, transparency, and collaboration at eye level. We believe in entrepreneurial thinking, personal responsibility, and that sustainable solutions emerge from genuine dialogue.

Personal responsibility and trust
You will be given the freedom to design your tasks independently. We rely on trust rather than micromanagement and on results-orientation rather than presence culture.

Flexibility and work model
Mobile working is a lived reality for us. Flexible working hours and 30 days of vacation allow you to balance work and life – remotely, in one of our hubs, or at the client’s site.

Professional framework and benefits
We equip you with high-quality technical equipment, including a MacBook and an iPhone that can also be used privately.

Professional development and perspective
You will shape a role that is intended to grow with our product business. With successful product-market fit, there is the prospect of taking over the technical leadership of the area and building an engineering team.

Community and exchange
Our hubs are deliberately designed as places for workshops, reviews, and collaboration. We create spaces for genuine exchange, joint learning, and continuous development.

If you want to take on technical responsibility and build the future product business of MEONDI Frontier Services with us, we look forward to hearing from you.

Your personal contact at MEONDI:

Winta Asfha-Grasta
People and Culture Lead
#gerneperdu (we prefer the informal 'you')
+49 (0) 151-11558971
Winta on LinkedIn

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