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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer - Berlin at Uplane'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer - Berlin at Uplane

- **Company:** Uplane
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Compensation:** €60k–€80k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/uplane/a216ad73-e13e-43c6-9918-42a1df45d8d9

## Job description

## About Uplane (YC F25)

Companies waste billions on bad ads, mismatched landing pages, and poor budget allocation. Uplane fixes this by replacing a patchwork of agencies, spreadsheets, and siloed tools with one self-improving AI system. It creates ads, builds matching landing pages, allocates budgets across different channels, and more. We are building the AI engine that will manage and spend the world's marketing budget.

## About The Role

We're seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer to be the technical backbone of our managed service business. Your job is to make AI-generated landing pages convert and measure correctly: set up and test performance-marketing tracking, wire up commerce and conversion features, fix and fine-tune pages, and act as the technical point of contact for our clients. The work sits between engineering and client relations.

## Why Join

- Be an early team member at a well-funded, YC-backed startup
- Solve a massive problem in a massive market
- Take ownership and grow quickly; your work directly drives client results (and revenue)
- Remote-first contract with a fast-moving, ambitious, fun, humble team

## Responsibilities

- Performance Marketing Tracking: Set up, implement, and test conversion tracking on landing pages.
- Conversion & Commerce Integrations: Integrate purchase and checkout features (e.g. Shopify) so customers can buy directly on the AI-built landing pages. Wire up forms, payment flows, and webhooks.
- Landing Page Fixes & Fine-Tuning: Debug, polish, and fine-tune landing pages built by our AI marketing strategists, including front-end fixes, responsive issues, layout, and page speed.
- Client Tech Support: Be the technical point of contact for our clients via Slack. Troubleshoot issues, communicate clearly and proactively, and own problems through to resolution.
- Learn, Adapt & Automate: Our stack keeps growing. Stay curious and flexible, picking up new tracking tools, integrations, and platforms as our needs evolve. Automate as much of your own work as you can.

## Requirements

- Some Front-end coding experience: You're comfortable building and editing responsive front-ends with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Junior candidates are welcome, and we care more about raw ability and drive than years of experience.
- Hard-working, smart, and humble. You take ownership and are willing to solve whatever problem you or the customers may face. You don't give up until the issue is solved.
- A people person with fluent written English. You'll support clients directly over Slack, so you communicate clearly, proactively, and with patience.
- A fast learner and problem-solver: You're excited to pick up performance-marketing tracking and new tools quickly. No prior tracking experience required.

## Nice to Have (not required)

- Experience with performance-marketing tracking (GTM, GA4, pixels, conversion APIs): a real plus, but not required, and we'll help you learn it
- Experience integrating Shopify or checkout/payment flows
- Previous touchpoints with marketing, AdTech, or an agency/consulting environment

Tech Stack (what you'll work with)

- Tracking & Analytics: Google Tag Manager, GA4, Meta Pixel + Conversions API, Google Ads / TikTok / LinkedIn pixels
- Commerce & Integrations: Shopify, checkout/payment, forms, webhooks
- Front-end: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Collaboration: Slack, Notion, Linear
- …and more. Our stack evolves, so flexibility to learn new tools is expected

## About Uplane

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Uplane provides a full-funnel AI marketing automation platform that autonomously generates hyper-personalized ads and landing pages, manages campaigns across channels, and optimizes budgets to replace marketing agencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage; Y Combinator F25)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with offices in Berlin, Germany and Cairo, Egypt)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Julius Körfgen (Co-Founder & CEO), Lukas Vollmer (Co-Founder & CTO), Marvin Abdel-Massih (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI Marketing Automation, Advertising Technology
- Target customers: B2B enterprises and SMBs; highlights compliance for highly regulated industries
- Mission or purpose statement: “Replace marketing agencies with AI” and “Equip marketing teams with the infrastructure to win in the AI era.”

## Products & Services
- **AI Marketing Automation Platform (SaaS)**: Unified system covering market intelligence, AI-powered production of hundreds of static and video ads with matching landing pages, automatic A/B testing, 24/7 algorithmic budget steering across Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and other channels, plus real-time analytics.
- **Managed Growth Service**: Uplane operates the platform as a dedicated marketing partner, handling strategy, execution, and optimization for clients.
- **Licensed Enterprise Platform**: Deployable on the client’s own cloud or on-premise, suitable for highly regulated industries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – USD 5.0 M (Pre-Seed $500K in Oct 2025; Seed $4.5M led by Play Ventures in Apr 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Play Ventures (lead), Y Combinator, 20VC, Multimodal Ventures, Rebel Fund; highlighted enterprise partnership with Deutsche Bahn
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $4.5M seed round in 2026; Y Combinator-backed (Fall 2025 batch); team of 19 (rapid headcount growth from 13 reported on LinkedIn); 8 active job postings with quarterly hiring growth of +100%; already delivering 20–50% improvement in return on ad spend for early clients; presented a live use case with Deutsche Bahn at d3con conference

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack AI agency replacement** – one platform handles research, creative production, campaign management, and optimization end-to-end, eliminating the need for multiple agencies and tools.
- **Self-improving system** – connects to CRM and ERP data to learn what drives profit and continuously refine ads and budgets.
- **Enterprise‑grade security & compliance** – ISO 27001 certified, role‑based access, brand safety rules, and flexible deployment (managed cloud, own cloud, or on‑premise) for regulated industries.
- **Founding team depth** – CEO with education from Imperial, TUM, and Harvard; CTO with 15 years full‑stack experience and two former YC companies as Head of Engineering.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the customer base (starting with enterprises and SMBs)
- Deepening AI automation capabilities to further reduce manual marketing work
- Expanding into regulated verticals (finance, pharma, etc.) with secure on‑premise deployments
- Growing the engineering and go‑to‑market teams across San Francisco, Berlin, and remote

## Why Work Here
- **High‑impact early‑stage startup** – join a Y Combinator company before it scales; current team of ~19 with a flat, founder‑led structure.
- **Remote‑friendly** – roles listed as remote (US/DE) and in‑person in San Francisco or Berlin.
- **Ambitious mission** – “the future of marketing will be nothing like the past”; work on AI that autonomously runs campaigns so marketers can focus on strategy.
- **Competitive compensation** – engineering roles range $150K–$200K; AI Marketing Strategist roles $100K–$130K (with equity). Internships paid at ~$4K/month.
- **Talent pedigree** – several hires come from McKinsey, Bain, Enpal, Deel, and other top tech/consulting firms; founders have strong academic and startup backgrounds.

## Sources
1. [uplane.com](https://uplane.com/)
2. [ycombinator.com/companies/uplane](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane)
3. [linkedin.com/company/uplane-com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uplane-com)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs)

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