Founding Engineer

Zentio provides adaptive, self-optimising production planning software that makes European factories competitive.

Tasks

Own problems end-to-end and ship. High agency and accountability. You’ll:

• Ship end-to-end features across the stack: React UI; REST/tRPC services; Postgres; containers.


• Design/evolve Postgres schemas and migrations; ensure reliability and performance.


• Build/extend integrations with ERP/MES/SCADA; expose scheduling/constraints via clean APIs.


• Instrument, test, and monitor what you ship.

Requirements

You bring (requirements)

• React
  
  proficiency (priority): complex UIs, solid state/rendering
  
  fundamentals, DOM manipulation & Web Canvas API. exact past stack is
  
  optional.


• TypeScript; strong API design for REST and tRPC.


• Postgres (priority): schema modelling, indexing, migrations, query tuning.


• Docker & Docker Compose (required); cloud exposure (AWS/GCP/Azure). Kubernetes not required.


• Good eye for web UI; clear, direct communication.

Nice to have

• TanStack Query and TanStack Router/Vite in production.


• Event/queue/streaming experience; observability fundamentals.