Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire.About the role
telli is building AI voice agents that change the way businesses communicate with their customers. Voice is the most natural way humans communicate. However, high-quality voice interactions have historically struggled to scale, leading businesses to rely on clunky user interfaces and compromise on customer experience.
AI dramatically improves both quality and scalability. However, the technology alone isn't enough. At telli, we believe businesses need a simple, tailored tool that helps them transform their customer communication channels. This is what we’re building! The opportunity is huge, and the time is now - and that’s why we need YOU!
About the role
We’re looking for a stellar full-stack software engineer to join us in Berlin.
Team & culture
We are bringing together a small all-star team right in the heart of Berlin and are looking for people excited to build the future with us. Join us (Finn, Philipp, Seb, Simon, and Paulus) on this quest!
We care deeply about doing excellent work, and we’re looking for a like-minded software engineer to join our product engineering team.
Thriving at telli requires a few core skills:
- Product mindset: Our tech stack includes TypeScript, React, Node, Postgres as well as temporal.io. But more than familiarity with any specific technology, we value a customer-centric approach and ability to ship end-to-end features.
- Ability to work fast in a high-ambiguity environment: As an early-stage startup, we’re inventing a product as well as building it. We’re moving fast. If you have a proven track record of delivering high-quality software in a strong engineering team, that’s a big plus.
- Desire to work out of our HQ in Berlin: We believe quality of interactions is higher in an in-person environment. We collaborate deeply and often communicate by tapping one another on the shoulder.
Read more about how we build software here: hi.telli.com/principles.
What makes you a great fit
- you enjoy challenging work and going the extra mile
- your skills have significant (but not necessarily 100%) overlap with what we do – frontend engineering, server development, databases, cloud providers, LLM & Voice AI providers
- you enjoy contributing to the entire development stack
- you want to have an impact from day one
- you want to work with smart and friendly people with (self-reported) low ego
You may not make a good fit if…
- you prefer a remote-first environment
- you like to work on your own with minimum collaboration
- you want to work 9-5
- you have no prior experience in software engineering teams
Perks
- great pay & equity package
- access to any software product that makes you more productive
- gym subscription
- a bright and beautiful office in Berlin Mitte, complete with a friendly office dog
About telli
telli was founded in 2024 to build voice AI agents for B2C companies. We were part of the YC Fall ‘24 batch. In the last couple of months, we’ve grown to 6-figure ARR and raised a $3.6M seed from investors including a top-tier European seed fund and Y Combinator.
Based in Berlin: We are unfortunately not able to sponsor visas - for this role, you will need to possess an existing EU/German work permit.
Cherry Ventures is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
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What We Do
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of their businesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 90 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Flaschenpost, Forto, SellerX, Juni, and Flink. Cherry Ventures is located in London, Berlin, and Stockholm.
