We Made It to 100 💜
Celebrating the people who built Ampli with us plus Uber’s Delivery Hero deal, Berlin’s best tech jobs, and the events worth showing up for.
Hey 👋 Ampli community and beyond
Issue #100 feels like a moment to pause and appreciate how far we’ve come.
When we started Ampli, the goal was always bigger than publishing a newsletter.
We wanted to build a real community around Berlin tech one that helps people find the right jobs, discover the rooms worth showing up to, learn from each other, and meet people they might otherwise never cross paths with.
The newsletter became the rhythm that kept us moving.
A huge thank you to the Ampli team, our contributors, speakers, partners, sponsors, and everyone who has read, shared, attended, introduced us to someone, or supported us along the way.
Here’s to the next 100 💜
And if you’d like to write, speak, host, sponsor, or build something with Ampli, please reach out.
Attia, Monica, Nada, and Kenzy 👶🏼
🚀 The AMPLI Board of Jobs “this week's Top Picks”
📊 Data Scientist — mobile.de · Junior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Early-career data scientist comfortable with Python, SQL and modern ML/GenAI frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow) on AWS or GCP, eager to ship in an agile team
🤖 Senior Machine Learning Engineer — Peregrine.ai · Senior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Strong Python and deep-learning experience (PyTorch/TensorFlow), a solid ML/robotics foundation, and a track record of taking models from research to production
⚙️ Software Engineer (Python) — Audatic · Junior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Strong Python plus a taste for infrastructure work — Docker, Postgres/MongoDB, cloud compute and CI/CD — to build and own the tooling behind Audatic’s deep-learning experiments
📱 Senior Product Engineer — iOS/Swift — Qonto · Senior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Senior iOS engineer fluent in Swift with strong CI/CD habits and a product mindset for building polished, reliable mobile apps
🎨 Senior Product Designer — Moss · Senior · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Senior product designer with a strong portfolio of shipped, complex product work and the craft to define end-to-end flows for AI-driven features
🛒 Product Manager, Consumer Platform — AUTO1 Group · Lead · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Experienced product manager who can set strategy, work cross-functionally with marketing and engineering, and ship customer-facing product in an agile environment
🚀 Platform Engineer — DigitalService · Mid-Level · Berlin
Min. Requirement: Mid-level platform/DevOps engineer with Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm and CI/CD experience (Python or Java), building self-service infrastructure; German helpful
💻 Senior Frontend Engineer — Hostaway · Senior · Remote
Min. Requirement: 6+ years building SaaS frontends with React, TypeScript and JavaScript, solid state management (Redux) and testing (Jest/Cypress), plus a11y and performance best practices; AWS a plus
Working Student Jobs
Working Student — Signavio Next Engineering, Full-Stack (f/m/d) — SAP
Working Student — Product Data & Analytics — Redcare Pharmacy
Working Student — Packaging Data & Specifications (w/m/d) — Packmatic
Technology Operations & AI Working Student (all genders) — Yoshi en
📆 Upcoming Tech Events
Catch the latest in tech with our weekly roundup of events!
Built, Not Bought: Go-to-Market for Modern Consumer Brands | Monday, July 20
The Right to Remain Human — An Evening with Thomas Hübl | Monday, July 20
AI Builders Berlin — The Agentic Stack Edition | Tuesday, July 21
Register Your Company at an Affordable Cost | Wednesday, July 22
Exklusives Founder Dinner | Thursday, July 23
Start Up Picnic | Sunday, July 26
ClawCamp Berlin | Tuesday, July 28
Unconference: Engineering AI Together No.8 | Tuesday, July 28
CTO Craft Mixers: Berlin | Wednesday, July 29
FeedForward — Berlin | Thursday, July 30
The Missing Piece in Agentic AI: Payments | Thursday, July 30
Claude in the Wild: What Are People Actually Building With Claude? | Thursday, July 30
Build Your First App With AI in One Evening | Thursday, July 30
Hands-On with Claude Code: Build Your First AI Workflow Agent | Friday, July 31
🖥 High-signal content and news
🔥 Uber is buying Berlin’s Delivery Hero for $14.8B, one of the year’s biggest tech deals 🇩🇪
Uber agreed to buy Delivery Hero at €41.50 a share, a $14.8B equity value, lifting its economic interest to roughly 53%. The combined platform spans 99 markets and did $236B in gross bookings last year. For Berlin it cuts both ways. The city’s most global consumer-tech export is being absorbed by a US giant, but Uber has committed to keep the Berlin HQ open and German headcount intact through 2029, plus €2B of German investment by 2031. Closing isn’t expected before H2 2027, regulators permitting. The thing to watch: does Berlin keep the talent and the decisions, or just the address?
ERT: 5–7 min · 🇩🇪 Berlin · 🚀 Founders
The other side of the table: Berlin’s Omio buys 90-year-old Rail Europe 🇩🇪
While Delivery Hero was getting bought, another Berlin champion went shopping. Omio agreed to acquire French rail distributor Rail Europe, creating one of the world’s largest ground-transport booking platforms: 22 million train tickets a year, 70+ countries, 28,000 operators. The bet is that cross-border rail booking, still messy and fragmented, consolidates into a handful of super-aggregators. Omio wants to be one of them. For Berlin, this is the healthier half of the week’s M&A story. A local company scaling by buying, not by being bought.
ERT: 3–5 min · 🇩🇪 Berlin · 🚀 Founders
Helsing raises $1.8B at an $18B valuation, Europe’s biggest-ever defence round 🇩🇪
Munich’s Helsing closed a $1.8B Series E with Goldman, JPMorgan, Lightspeed, General Catalyst and Canada’s CPP all in, landing at $18B just five years after founding. Its stack runs from the HX-2 strike drone to the Altra battlefield software, with a CA-1 autonomous fighter on the roadmap. That makes it one of the most valuable defence assets on the continent, and it stayed majority-European-owned. “Sovereign capability” has gone from policy slogan to investable thesis, and the money and talent are following it into German defence tech.
ERT: 4–6 min · 🇩🇪 Berlin · 🚀 Founders
The frontier labs all shipped at once, and the game moved from “best model” to “best fit”
In the span of days, OpenAI split GPT-5.6 into three tiers (Sol for reasoning, Terra for cheap quality, Luna for volume), xAI dropped Grok 4.5, Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5, and Moonshot’s Kimi K3 landed on July 16. No single benchmark is the story. What changed is that price, latency and fit now decide which model you actually reach for. The question for anyone building on top is no longer “which model is smartest” but “which model is right for this exact call.” If your architecture hard-codes one, that’s now a liability.
ERT: 5–7 min · 📰 News
Addy Osmani: AI writes 4× the code for a tenth more value, and the whole gap is review
Osmani’s sharpest piece in a while says the productivity story is real but mismeasured. Agents balloon raw output while pushing quality and reviewability down, so the leverage has moved to code review. His fix is to treat review as the senior skill and invest in the specs and tests that make delegation safe. That reframes what “10x with AI” actually costs. If your team counts AI wins in lines shipped, this resets the scoreboard.
ERT: 6–8 min · 🧑💻 Engineering & Data
Figma’s “Intelligent Canvas”: design, code and AI agents collapsing into one surface
At Config and a Seoul unveiling this week, Figma pushed “Code Layer” (code as a first-class design layer), motion and shader tools, and agents across FigJam and Slides. The pitch is to become a full-stack creation platform. One number stands out: designers involved in the build process jumped from 21% to 41% in a single year. The line between “designed” and “shipped” is dissolving, and product-team roles are being redrawn around it.
ERT: 4–6 min · 🎨 Design & PMs
The junior-developer squeeze is real. Here’s how to get through it
Entry-level dev postings are down roughly 60% from 2022, and employment for 22-to-25-year-old engineers has fallen about 20% from its peak, because one senior plus AI now does what a small team used to. The path that still works looks less like “learn to code” and more like “prove judgement”: systems thinking, code reading, a live project with real users and a postmortem in the README. Forward this to anyone early in their career who’s wondering whether the ladder still exists. It does. The bottom rungs just moved.
ERT: 6–8 min · 🌱 Entry Level
