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Vogel

Advises German businesses on tax and accounting

Tech Lead / CTO

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMunich, Germany€156k - €205k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Have built a production system used by people other than its builders, in a founding engineer, engineering lead, technical co-founder, or comparable role.
  • Have taken agentic systems into production and understand where they break.
  • Have integrated with legacy enterprise resource planning systems, banking backends, or poorly documented interfaces.
  • Write production code and use artificial intelligence tools in day-to-day work, with technical judgment grounded in systems built and discarded.
  • Be able to work in German with clients and tax advisors and build in person in Munich.

Responsibilities

  • Build the data layer above DATEV, treating DATEV as the current system of record and designing the layer to outlast the underlying system.
  • Choose and build the agent infrastructure, including its framework, orchestration, versioning, and observability.
  • Build an integration layer that allows each client's upstream systems to provide context to agents without requiring custom code for each client.
  • Ensure tax advisors receive reproducible results and auditors can trace them, using probabilistic processes where there is variance and deterministic processes where there are numbers.
  • Build a control layer that lets certified professionals quickly inspect an agent's version, sources, and decisions and sign off on its work.
  • Build evaluation using decades of audited, completed work.
  • Make architecture, technology stack, and build-versus-buy decisions for the technology layer.
  • Hire and lead the engineering team, beginning hiring during the first quarter.
  • Ensure every acquired firm adopts the same technology base so the system scales across acquisitions.
  • Write and review code while leading the technical work.
  • Deliver a production use case used daily within six months, several agentic use cases and operational evaluation within twelve months, and a shared technology base and independently shipping team within twenty-four months.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a regulated field where mistakes have consequences, such as fintech, banking technology, or payments, or in software for professional services.
  • Knowledge of accounting, tax, or DATEV.
  • A technical co-founder background, whether the product was sold or failed, or publicly demonstrable work.

About the Company

Vogel

Advises German businesses on tax and accounting

Vogel is a German tax and business advisory group serving midsize companies, entrepreneurs and business-owning families. Its advisers prepare annual financial statements and tax returns, run payroll and management accounting, and help clients plan succession, reorganizations and transactions. Teams also redesign finance processes and introduce digital tools, combining recurring accounting work with advice on decisions that affect a business over several years. The group earns service fees for ongoing accounting and payroll work, tax compliance and separate advisory assignments. Founded in 1959, Vogel is headquartered in Aalen, Germany, with additional offices in Bopfingen and Munich.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Aalen, Germany
Founded
1959

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