Founding Engineer

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

We’re building the operating system for restaurants. Not another POS. Not another dashboard.

An AI-powered platform that combines payments, ordering, loyalty, automation, insights, and AI agents into one system used by real businesses across Europe.

Today, restaurants run on fragmented software. We believe one platform will replace it all. That’s what we’re building at Munchi.

We’ve already processed millions in sales, work with restaurants across multiple countries, and are backed by leading VC and Angel investors in the Nordics. Now we’re looking for a founding-level engineer to help build the next generation of the company.

Not an employee mindset. A builder mindset.

Someone who wants ownership. Speed. Intensity. Impact. Someone who wants to help shape the future of AI-native software for SMBs.


What this role actually is

  • You’ll work directly with the founders and core team to build products and scale them fast.

  • This is not a “tickets in Jira” type of role.

  • You’ll ship fast.

  • Talk to users.

  • Make product decisions.

  • Use AI aggressively to move 10x faster.

  • Challenge ideas.

  • Break things.

  • Fix them.

  • Repeat.

  • You should genuinely enjoy building.

  • The kind of person who opens their laptop because they want to, not because someone told them to.


The team

We’re a small, ambitious, international team with a strong founder mentality.

The founding team combines serial entrepreneurship, engineering, product, sales, and operations experience. Backgrounds include Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition, ex-Meta engineering experience, and years of building startups from scratch.

But what matters most to us is attitude.

We care about people who are hungry, curious, resilient, and obsessed with building great products. People who move fast, think independently, and want to create something meaningful with other ambitious humans.

We come from different cultures and backgrounds, but share the same mentality: build hard, learn fast, stay humble.


What we’re building

  • AI-powered restaurant OS

  • POS & payments infrastructure

  • Ordering systems

  • Loyalty & CRM

  • AI agents for restaurants

  • Automation tooling

  • Consumer-facing products

  • Future financial infrastructure built on top of payment flows


What we’re looking for

  • Full-stack builder

  • AI-native developer who already uses tools like Cursor or Claude daily

  • Fast execution speed

  • Product intuition

  • Startup mindset

  • Comfortable with ambiguity and ownership

  • Wants to build category-defining products, not just features


You should probably apply if:

  • You’ve built side projects obsessively or contributed to OSS

  • You have a minimum of 3 years of non-internship experience

  • You know how to orchestrate AI agents effectively

  • You ship fast without needing hand-holding

  • You care more about impact than corporate structure

  • You like intensity and momentum

  • You want to work with ambitious people

  • You want your work to actually matter


Tech stack and dev tools we use daily

  • TypeScript, Python

  • React, React Native, Shadcn, Tailwind, NestJS

  • MongoDB, SQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis

  • Google Cloud, AWS

  • Server, Serverless Architecture, Microservice, Mono-repo, DevSecOps

  • Pinecone, Langfuse, OpenRouter, Mastra, Langchain, Vapi, ElevenLabs

  • Ably, Postman, Sentry, Posthog, Slack, Notion

We care more about builders than perfect CVs.


What you get

  • Founding-level ownership + meaningful equity + competitive salary

  • Direct impact on company direction

  • Ability to shape product and engineering culture from the beginning

  • Real autonomy

  • Fast growth environment

  • Opportunity to build one of Europe’s next major software companies


This is not for everyone.

It’s for people who want to look back in 10 years and say: “I was there when it started.”


If that sounds exciting, we want to hear more about you.

For more information or questions please contact us at vic@gomunchi.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Near public transit
Near public transit

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Equity package
Equity package

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Working at
Munchi

Munchi is building the AI-powered operating system for restaurants. Today, most restaurants run on disconnected tools: one system for POS, another for payments, another for online ordering, loyalty, reservations, kiosks, analytics, marketing, and delivery integrations. These systems rarely communicate with each other, creating operational chaos, poor customer experiences, fragmented data, and lost revenue. Restaurants are expected to operate like modern tech companies, but most still rely on outdated software built decades ago. Munchi solves this by bringing everything into one unified platform. We combine cloud POS, payments, online ordering, self-service kiosks, loyalty, reservations, customer analytics, and AI-driven automation into a single system designed specifically for modern hospitality businesses. Every order and payment becomes connected customer data that restaurants can actually use to grow. Our infrastructure helps restaurants increase repeat purchases, automate operations, understand their customers better, and run more efficiently without needing multiple vendors or complex integrations. But we believe the bigger shift happening is AI. Restaurants and local businesses are entering a new era where AI agents will handle large parts of operations: answering calls, managing bookings, launching campaigns, analyzing performance, handling customer communication, forecasting sales, and eventually helping businesses make operational and financial decisions autonomously. Most businesses are not ready for this transition because their data and systems are fragmented. Munchi is building the infrastructure layer that enables this future. By owning the flow of orders, payments, customer interactions, and operational data, we can power intelligent AI agents directly inside the daily workflows of restaurants. Over time, this evolves beyond software into an AI-native business operating system. Our vision is to become the backbone infrastructure for local commerce globally, where payments, operations, AI, customer engagement, and eventually financial services work together seamlessly inside one platform. Today we focus on restaurants. Long term, we believe the same infrastructure can power millions of local businesses worldwide.

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