At mika, we are redefining how SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) handle their finances. We automate taxes and bookkeeping so that business owners can focus on scaling their companies, not losing sleep over paperwork. Having found a strong product-market fit, we are now entering a hyper-growth phase and need a strategic-minded "doer" to help the founders bring mika under the people.
As a Founders Associate, you are the founders' right hand and a strategic partner in our growth journey. You will operate at the intersection of Sales Operations, Strategy, and Business Development. This isn't a role with a fixed routine; you will tackle the most critical bottlenecks of the company as we scale from a successful startup to the market leader for SME finance automation.
You will work hand in hand with our founders to build the structures that allow mika to reach thousands of SMEs across Germany.
Our Hiring Process:
A brief introductory call with Lisa, our internal recruiter. She'll walk you through the process, answer any initial questions, and make sure we're aligned on basics like timeline and expectations.
You'll meet with Henry, mika's CTO, to talk about your background, what drives you, and what you're looking for. We'll share more about mika's mission, our team culture, and the role. This is also your opportunity to ask questions about the company and our vision.
A deep-dive technical session run by one of our senior engineers. We'll give you a real-world scenario and explore how you approach system design from scratch – service boundaries, data models, database design, code-level structure, and tech stack decisions. We want to understand how you think about complex systems, not just whether you know the right answers.
This is the core of our technical assessment and reflects how we actually work today. You'll receive a large, LLM-generated microservice – the kind of output our agents produce daily. You'll have ~20 minutes to go through it, then walk us through:
We're not looking for perfection. We're looking for judgment, prioritization, and the ability to navigate large codebases efficiently.
A casual call with a few of our engineers – no agenda, no evaluation criteria. Just a chance to get to know the people you'd be working with every day, and for the team to get to know you.
A final conversation with one of mika's other founders. This is less about technical skills and more about values, long-term goals, and mutual fit. You'll get a broader picture of where mika is heading and have space to ask anything that's still on your mind.
We aim to complete the entire process within 2–3 weeks. We know candidates are often in multiple processes at once, and we're happy to adapt the timeline or order of steps where needed.