AI-Native Full-Stack Builder (m/f/d)
Aroundtown
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
General Business, Business Management / Project / Planning, Business Development
Why This Role Exists
We are building an AI-native delivery team that ships working software in days, not quarters. This role is for someone who lives in AI-native tooling — Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, v0, Lovable, Bolt — and who treats shipping as the unit of progress.
This is not a Staff Engineer role and is not asking for one. We are not asking for five-year architectural ownership; the integration engineering function owns that. We are asking for speed, judgment, and the ability to ship working software end-to-end at high cadence.
What Success Looks Like
Building & Shipping
Experience & Expertise
We are building an AI-native delivery team that ships working software in days, not quarters. This role is for someone who lives in AI-native tooling — Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, v0, Lovable, Bolt — and who treats shipping as the unit of progress.
This is not a Staff Engineer role and is not asking for one. We are not asking for five-year architectural ownership; the integration engineering function owns that. We are asking for speed, judgment, and the ability to ship working software end-to-end at high cadence.
What Success Looks Like
- Working software in users' hands fast — days and weeks, not quarters.
- A portfolio of small, useful internal tools, automations, and tenant-facing PoCs accumulates quickly. Some land, some get killed. Both are signal.
- Tight feedback loops with real users — internal teams, operations, pilot tenants.
- Prototypes that prove themselves are handed cleanly to the integration engineering function for hardening — without rewrite drama.
- Code that did not earn its place is thrown away without ceremony.
Building & Shipping
- Build working software end-to-end in AI-native tooling: Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, v0, Lovable, or equivalent. You are fluent across at least several of these and you experiment with new ones.
- Ship to small user groups fast — internal users, operations teams, pilot tenants. Your loop is build → demo → learn → rebuild.
- Cover the stack pragmatically: frontend, backend, basic data, basic deploy. You do not need to be the deepest in any one layer; you need to be effective across all of them.
- Build LLM-powered features into product where they create real user or operational value — AI-assisted search, document processing, intelligent summarization, agentic workflows.
- Write deliberately loose code in early stages; tighten what proves itself. Recognize when something is a five-day experiment and when it is a candidate for production.
- Throw away what did not work without attachment. Double down on what did.
- Hand winning prototypes to the integration & hardening engineering function with clean context — what it does, who uses it, what it touches, what is not yet production-ready.
- Apply judgment on quality calibration. Prototypes deserve different rigor from production code; both deserve thought.
- Use AI coding assistants as your default workflow — code generation, test generation, refactoring, documentation, debugging — not as a novelty.
- Continuously evaluate new AI development tools as they emerge. Adopt fast when they earn it. Discard when they do not.
- Maintain critical judgment over every AI output. Speed without judgment produces bad code at scale.
Experience & Expertise
- 4+ years of professional development experience, or equivalent demonstrated portfolio of shipped work.
- Hard requirement: a working portfolio of AI-built prototypes — at minimum 2 to 3 things shipped recently using AI-native tooling. Link required in application.
- Effective across the stack: frontend (React, Vue, or similar), backend (Node, Python, or similar), basic database work, deployment to platforms like Vercel, Railway, Supabase, or equivalent.
- Daily practice with AI coding assistants — Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable. Not awareness, not occasional use — default workflow.
- Working understanding of when something needs to be hardened versus when it should stay in prototype form. Bonus if you have made that judgment call in production before.
- Comfort with throwaway code and rapid iteration. You do not require comprehensive test coverage on a 3-day experiment.
- Real estate, proptech, or property operations context is an advantage — not a gating requirement, but it accelerates you.
- Velocity Under Uncertainty: You ship in days even when the spec is fuzzy. You treat ambiguity as a signal to build, not to delay.
- Prototype-to-Production Fluency: You know which corners can be cut and which cannot. You know when to call in the integration engineer.
- AI Tool Mastery: You are deep in at least one AI coding environment and competent in several. You are not a tourist.
- User Proximity: You stay close to the people using your work. The feedback loop is short and direct.
- Comfort with Throwing Code Away: You do not get attached. The portfolio matters more than any single artifact.
- Pragmatic Quality: You apply the right level of rigor for the stage. Experiments and production code get different treatment, by design.
- Builder: You measure yourself in things shipped, not story points moved.
- Allergic to Long Planning Cycles: You would rather build a small bad thing on Tuesday than plan the perfect thing for two weeks.
- Comfortable with Messy Code in Service of Learning: You also know when to clean it up — or throw it out entirely.
- Curious About the Domain: You actively want to understand how a property gets managed, what an operations team does day-to-day, where the friction lives.
- AI-Forward: AI tools are your default, not a novelty. You experiment with new ones every month and have opinions about them.
- Discreet: You handle tenant data and operational information responsibly, including data passing through AI systems.
- Working portfolio of AI-built artifacts shipped in the last 90 days — link required in application.
- English: advanced.
- German: an advantage but not gating.
- Degree not required if portfolio is strong. Demonstrated shipping beats credentials.
- Interesting, varied and broad range of tasks in one of the largest real estate companies in Germany and Europe
- Individual training and coaching for professional and personal development in our Academy and with our in-house business coach
- Professionally equipped, in-house gym with trainers and courses at the headquarters in Berlin as well as fitness and health offers through the Wellhub platform at all external locations
- Comprehensive company health management and company pension scheme
- Support on the way to work through a subsidy for the use of public transport and the option of leasing a bicycle through Eurorad
- Mobility and flexibility through the use of pool cars and company cars to carry out tasks
- Flexible working hours and mobile working for an even better work-life balance
- Exciting virtual range of family-friendly benefits, including vacation programs, leisure and sports activities and consulting services with our partner company Voiio
- Opportunity to attend Bundesliga matches of FC Union Berlin, our favorite club
- Discounts in selected hotels worldwide with up to 30% on overnight stays and special conditions on food and drinks
- Employee discounts for special conditions in the areas of media, fashion, leisure, facilities and much more via a partner company
- Additional days off on Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve
About the company
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Aroundtown is one of Europe's largest real estate companies, M-Dax listed and focused on income generating quality properties that have potential for value-add in central locations mainly in Germany and the Netherlands. The portfolio comprises mainly office, residential and hotel properties. Hundreds of experienced employees from all areas of the value chain ensure that Aroundtown effectively realizes long-term potential. Professional organization, flexibility, innovation and extensive tenant services make Aroundtown a reliable partner for growth and success. Aroundtown is a sustainability leader in the European market with strong visibility in ESG indices such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and more. Aroundtown is a member of the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA), the German Property Federation (ZIA), the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) as well as a signatory of the United Nations Charter of Diversity. Aroundtown has received multiple EPRA BPR Gold Awards and EPRA sBPR Gold Awards for its transparent financial and sustainability reporting.
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