Backend Engineer

About the role

Join a small, high‑caliber founding team in Berlin building the core backend infrastructure for an AI‑native operations platform serving 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.

Key responsibilities

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

Required profile

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

Required skills

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

What we offer

• Salary range €70,000 – €110,000 per year, depending on experience.
• Early‑stage equity opportunity.
• High ownership and influence over architecture decisions at a foundational stage.
• On‑site work in Berlin.