Backend Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a small, high-caliber founding team in Berlin building core backend infrastructure for an AI-native operations platform targeting the private markets industry. The platform powers fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation — with a deep focus on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability across both hosted and self-hosted deployments.

This is an early engineering role with significant ownership and direct impact on the systems that define the product's foundation.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own and evolve backend infrastructure with a strong emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability
• Design and manage deployment architectures for both hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Enhance system reliability, performance, and security in production environments
• Partner closely with product and frontend teams to ship features while upholding quality standards
• Drive AI-native development practices that enable rapid, high-quality releases

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Required

• 1–3 years of backend engineering experience, with a focus on permissions systems, auditability, traceability, and observability
• Familiarity with distributed systems and modern observability toolchains (metrics, logs, tracing)
• Comfortable working in a small founding team — strong ownership, initiative, and cross-functional coordination are essential
• Eligible to work in Germany and willing to work on-site in Berlin

Tech Stack (familiarity a plus)

• TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma
• Inngest, Mastra
• React, Tailwind (for context)

Nice to Have

• Background in fintech, private markets, fund accounting, or adjacent regulated industries
• Experience with enterprise security patterns: SSO, role-based access control, strict data isolation
• Prior experience at companies building AI/LLM-powered workflows or agentic systems

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Salary: €70,000 – €110,000 per year, depending on experience
• Early-stage equity opportunity
• High ownership and influence over architecture decisions at a foundational stage

LOCATION

• Berlin, Germany — on-site
• Candidates must be eligible to work in Germany; visa sponsorship is not available