A powerful and flexible CRM & sales automation toolkit for tomorrow's high growth companies. Built upon a unified customer data layer powered by AI.

Founding Engineer at Zero

• Location:
• Helsinki (preferred)
• Remote (EU time zones but willing to travel to Helsinki once a month)
• Compensation: Highly competitive salary + generous early employee equity

TL;DR

• We're building the next Salesforce/Hubspot, but AI-first
• Founded by the team that scaled Smartly.io to $100M+ ARR
• Backed by top-tier VCs ($2.7M pre-seed)
• Strong demand - 1000+ waitlist signups in a week
• Looking for the brightest full-stack product builders with global ambition
• Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a tightknit all-star early team

Why Zero

Zero is building the next-gen AI platform for growth companies to manage their go-to-market end-to-end. The market for CRMs and various sales tech solutions is massive ($100B+) and AI is rapidly disrupting the ways these softwares will be used in the future. Old clunky enterprise companies simply can’t keep up with the pace and the future-looking customers are already looking for a fresh breath of air from likes of Zero.

We've been fortunate to hit some significant early milestones:

• Raised a $2.7M pre-seed from top-tier global VCs like 20VC
• Gathered strong interest from 1000+ companies after our launch
• Shipped an extensive Beta Product in record time
• Working exclusively with the best high-growth AI startups in SF, NYC, London, Berlin, and Stockholm as design partners

What You'll Build

• A modern compound SaaS platform with tons of smart AI functionality and a killer UX
• A product that actually delivers on the AI promise with practical use cases
• Advanced backend systems that process and analyze massive amounts of customer data in realtime (emails, meetings, Slack discussions, product analytics etc)
• Slick, Linear-inspired frontend using Vue.js, TypeScript and our own proprietary realtime data sync engine and custom UI components
• New prototypes and features directly with customers - no PM layer in between
• Supercharging our team productivity with better developer experience (dev tooling, automated testing, admin UIs)

Who We Want

Let's be direct: we're only interested in the absolute best and brightest engineers with startup experience and a founder mindset. If you're not one, or aren't confident you'll be one, this probably isn't for you.

You need:

• Startup experience and founder mindset - you've built things from scratch, have owned projects end-to-end and have an entrepreneurial mindset
• Speed - you can turn ideas into shipped features in just a few days and get excited about moving as fast as possible
• Full-stack mastery with modern JavaScript/TypeScript stack
• Track record of maintaining large codebases with growing teams
• Experience with Vue.js (or React) and Node.js
• Excellent taste with products and sense of good design when building UIs
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge
• You are not afraid to interact with customers directly
• Genuine passion for building AI tools of the future - you’ve probably already tinkered with LLMs to create some useful tools for yourself or your team

Bonus points:

We don’t expect you to be a unicorn but deeper experience in some of these areas would be highly appreciated:

• Experience with optimizing complex SQL queries and building real-time analytics/reporting pipelines
• Building scalable distributed task queues with Redis or similar tools
• DevOps experience with Google Cloud Platform (we use e.g. Github Actions and Cloud Run)
• Experience with RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector databases, full-text search
• Building custom UI design systems/components
• Building realtime collaborative features using Websockets, tRPC, YJS etc

How We Work

• Ship end-to-end: You own the problem, not just a layer in the stack
• High autonomy: You'll have context to make big decisions
• Small team: No bureaucracy, just high-speed and high-quality shipping
• Speed first: We try things out instead of endless planning

Benefits

• Shape a rocket ship from the ground up
• Build one of the most exciting AI products coming out of Nordics
• Work with the brightest minds in tech
• Possibility to travel (or potentially relocate later) to global startup hubs (SF, NYC, Berlin, London)
• Hybrid setup with 2-4 office days
• 5 weeks of PTO and a healthy culture where recharging is also appreciated

Interview Process

1. Chat with the founders and the team (2-3 meetings)
2. Paid trial coding project: 2-5 days work, 2 weeks timeline, collaborate with our team
3. Offer