Senior Front-end Engineer | AI startup, role incl. VSOP

If you want to work in a fast-growing startup and build a cutting-edge AI product, this role is for you. Zapdeck is one of the leading AI tools for professional slide creation. We help teams save significant time when creating presentations.

You will play a key role in shaping the user interface of our product — from advanced editing experiences to scalable design systems. We offer a competitive salary and an attractive equity package (VSOP), giving you a real stake in the company’s success.

We are already live in the market and work with leading enterprises with thousands of employees, building complex AI workflows across organizations. At the core of Zapdeck is an innovative AI that generates complete presentations with fully on-brand design. Users work in an intuitive interface that combines structured editing, visual slide design, and AI-assisted workflows.

Our platform combines innovative technologies across the AI and front-end stack, offering a highly professional and ambitious environment with broad opportunities to shape and scale impactful product experiences. We are on track to become one of Germany’s leading AI startups.

You will join a highly experienced founding team: Our co-founder and CEO Frederik is a former BCG consultant, and our co-founder and CTO Riccardo previously served as Technical CPO at the InsurTech startup INZMO.

Tasks

• Build and scale advanced UI systems: Design and implement core parts of our front-end architecture with a focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Develop interactive product experiences: Build a powerful UI that combines text editing, drag-and-drop slide editing, AI chat, and real-time collaboration
• Own our design system: Develop and maintain a scalable component library, and build mechanisms to manage and apply customer-specific branding
• Collaborate on product evolution: Work closely with product, design, and AI teams to shape features through rapid iteration and experimentation
• Drive engineering excellence: Continuously improve front-end performance, developer experience, code quality standards, and testing practices

Requirements

Professional requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership, creative thinking, and a pragmatic approach to building and shipping solutions quickly
• 3–5 years of experience building modern front-end applications in SaaS, with strong experience in React, TypeScript, and scalable front-end architectures
• Proven experience developing interactive UI systems (e.g. editors, design tools), incl. working with APIs and integrating front-end systems into complex backends
• Experience building and maintaining design systems or component libraries, with a strong understanding of modern CSS approaches
• Strong product sense and attention to detail, with a passion for building high-quality user experiences and a high bar for pixel-perfect UI/UX implementation
• Bonus: Experience with real-time collaboration, canvas-based rendering, or tools similar to presentation, design, or document editors

Other requirements

• Residency in Berlin or the surrounding area
• Fluency in English, our primary business language
• Availability to start on short notice

Benefits

• Attractive compensation package including a competitive monthly salary and VSOP equity in a fast-growing AI startup
• Flexible hybrid work model with two office days per week, complemented by regular team events
• High level of ownership and creative freedom within a young, ambitious team, with the opportunity to help build a successful AI company from the ground up
• Agile, output-driven work culture with minimal meetings, low administrative overhead tasks, and direct impact on the product
• Early-stage startup exposure, including building and scaling core product functions while we onboard large enterprise customers

Ready to shape the future of AI-powered presentations with us?

We’d love to hear from you.