Munich teams come to us when the seed or Series A is closed and the question turns from 'can we ship?' to 'will this still ship in 18 months?'. We build production-ready MVPs, scale architectures past the first 100 paying users, and embed senior engineering capacity when hiring in Munich is slower than the runway. Architecture-first, EU-hosted, designed to survive the rebuild your competitors will discover too late.
Munich is Germany's strongest funded-startup market outside Berlin. Deep alumni networks across BMW, Siemens, Allianz and Munich Re; the densest concentration of Series A SaaS founders in the DACH region, anchored around UnternehmerTUM, Werk1 and the corridor between Maxvorstadt and Werksviertel-Mitte. The hiring market for senior backend engineers is competitive enough to slow every founder we meet — and that produces a recurring shape of work: funded teams that need senior architecture support without surrendering control to an agency. That is exactly the shape we deliver.
Four engagement shapes we deliver in Munich. Each one assumes the round is closed, the product is real, and the next milestone is the one investors will ask about.
Core product built from a defined architecture: auth, multi-tenant data, primary flows, CI/CD, base monitoring, GDPR-aligned by default. Typical scope: 6–8 weeks, €35–50k. The output is a system the next senior hire can read in an hour, not a prototype that needs to be rewritten in month four.
Multi-tenant data isolation, organisation-level auth, billing and metering, integrations and webhooks. We design the architecture before code is written, then ship vertical slices weekly behind feature flags — your product team keeps shipping while we replace the load-bearing parts.
Stateless services, queue-based fan-out, observability, on-call discipline. We get the system through the first scaling event (launch week, marketing push, enterprise pilot) without the panic that defines most seed-to-Series-A scaling stories.
After launch, your team grows but hiring senior backend engineers in Munich is slow. We embed in your repository, follow your code review, attend your standups when it helps, and hand the work back when you're staffed. No long-term contracts, no dependence.
Three shipped SaaS systems where the architecture was made to survive the first 100 paying users — not just the demo.
How we built the backend architecture for Telegram's fastest-growing gaming platform.
Custom-built AI-driven platform for structured B2B growth, experimentation, and revenue operations with GDPR compliance.
Full-scale SaaS web application for creating and managing dynamic web pages connected to QR codes and custom URLs.
Best fit: round is closed (or closing) and you have 12–24 months of runway. Pre-funding, we usually point teams at lighter-weight options — there is no point in production-grade architecture before the product hypothesis is proven. Post-funding, the calculus flips: every week the wrong architecture lives in production is one week of compounded rebuild cost.
No. The most common shape is exactly the opposite: the CTO or first engineer is technically strong but stretched thin, and the team needs senior architecture support that respects their authority. We work alongside, attend standups when it helps, follow their code review, and hand the work back when the team is staffed. By the end of stabilisation, your engineers run on-call, not us.
Yes — and the architecture sprint is designed exactly to make that path possible without a rewrite. The MVP is built from the architecture that the scaling step needs: multi-tenant data, billing boundaries, stateless workers, observability. The 'scale' phase is incremental load testing, SLO baselining, and on-call discipline — not a re-platforming project.
Both. The team is Berlin-based but Munich engagements are routine — on-site for kick-off, architecture sprint, and milestone reviews; remote (with shared standups and live pair-time) for implementation. Most Munich founders we work with prefer this rhythm over a permanent on-site team.
After the 5-day Architecture Sprint: 6–8 weeks for a production-ready MVP, 12–20 weeks for a re-architecture from a freelancer-built or no-code seed product, ongoing for embedded engineering capacity. We deliberately avoid open-ended retainers — every engagement has a defined exit point where your team takes over.
We ship out of Berlin into the other three markets with on-site kick-off, the Architecture Sprint on the ground, and live pair-time through implementation. Each market has its own delivery shape.
Five days. €3,500. We map your existing systems, name the scaling and architecture risks, and hand you a roadmap your team — or ours — can execute.
