Founding Engineer (Tech Lead)

Porters · Zürich

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Company: Porters
Location: Zürich
Posted: September 27, 2026

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The Mission You'll own the outcomes. You take an ambiguous business problem and turn it into clear requirements, a design with clear business rationale, sequenced work, and a realistic estimate, build the hardest parts yourself, and multiply a team of mid-level engineers with well-defined, extensible work and the reviews that keep quality high. You stay an IC at heart while making the work legible, sized, and worth doing. This job is in person in Zurich, or remote in Barcelona or Berlin. Your responsibilities Deliver the highest-risk work yourself: Be the IC where it matters. Personally engineer the most complex, business-critical components, from cross-service logic to the boundary where AI outputs become deterministic, auditable actions, and set the technical bar for the team as you go.…

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