Working Student / Intern in Software Engineering & AI (f/m/x)

The construction industry loses $1.6 trillion annually to inefficiencies. A huge part Repeating the same mistakes over and over because critical information is still stuck in paperwork and scattered systems.

alago fixes this by putting existing data to work instead of letting documentation gather dust. We help teams eliminate double data entry and manual busywork by connecting to existing tools processing project data and automating workflows between people and AI. With every project alago gets more powerful spotting risks and turning past challenges into future wins.

Weve just raised a seven-figure pre-seed led by top construction tech VCs and one of Germanys largest project developers. 75% of the infrastructure that will exist in 2050 does not exist today. Lets build it better!

Tasks

As a Working Student in Software Engineering & AI (all genders) youll join our development team and gain hands-on experience building complex large-scale software that transforms the construction industry:

• Collaborate directly with our core development team on real product features
• Use cutting-edge developer tools like Cursor and Claude Code to accelerate your workflow
• Design test deploy and maintain backend or frontend components of alagos platform
• Contribute ideas to improve performance usability and user experience
• Support with QA and customer onboarding & deployment.

You will be working closely with Vinzenz (CTO) and who owns tech.

Our Stack: We use TypeScript across both frontend and backend with and Tailwind for the frontend. Our backend runs on serverless functions. For LLM chains we leverage LangChain and LangGraph. Our infrastructure is based on Vercel and Supabase (PostgreSQL with vector embeddings).

As a working student or intern you dont need to know all of these yetif youre familiar with some and eager to learn the rest wed love to hear from you!

Requirements

This is the perfect role for a motivated student who wants to gain hands-on experience at an early-stage company and help shape the future of construction with applied AI. Whether you dream of founding your own company one day or see yourself growing with us long-term youll gain invaluable skills and make a real impact here.

• You are currently enrolled in a Masters program in Informatics Computer Science Business Informatics or similar
• You are fluent in German
• You have hands-on experience developing web-based front-end solutions with JavaScript and React (GitHub contributions are a plus).
• You have some exposure to RAG systems and are familiar with basic prompting techniques.
• You are enthusiastic about AI/ML even if youre still building your expertise.
• You have projects from university student clubs personal projects or internshipsand wed love to hear about them!
• You are available for at least 6 months

Bonus Points:

• Youve built or contributed to projects using Loveable v0 Cursor or similar
• Youve participated in hackathons
• Great UI/UX excites you

Benefits

As one of our first hires youll do more than contribute youll help shape how Alago works: our culture systems and growth strategy. Youll work directly with the founders gain exposure to every function and ship projects that have immediate impact.

• 10 Learning Curve. Work with cutting-edge AI to tackle real-world challenges every day
• You ship fast and own the outcome. Youll design features that take the pain out of project management automating away the repetitive tasks and overhead teams hate.
• Work directly with the founders. Youll own critical parts of alago end-to-end laying the technical foundation while balancing rapid iteration customer value and long-term scalability.
• A vibrant in-office culture in our central Munich office. We come together in our Munich office at least three days a week (two if you are a working student). Beyond that youre welcome to work remotely for a few weeks at a time whenever your circumstances or preferences require it.
• Competitive salary so you are invested in our success

Were building for scale but right now its still early. That means lots of autonomy tight feedback loops and the freedom to grow into whatever role suits your strengths whether thats to become top individual contributor or eventually launching your own company one day.

About the application process

1. Submit your story

• Tell us about something you built that had real impact.

2. Intro Call (30min)

• Intro Logistics & Fit with a founder.

3. Coding Challenge (45min)

• Tackle a systems design and coding challenge

4. Offer

• Well get back to you within 24 hours. If its a fit lets go!

Alago is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race religion sexual orientation age marital status disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin political opinions religious or philosophical beliefs trade union membership data concerning your health or data concerning your sexual orientation.