Backend Engineer

About the Role

This is a core backend engineering role on a small, high-caliber founding team building AI-native operations infrastructure for private markets. You will own the systems that power fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation, with a strong emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability across both hosted and self-hosted deployments.

What You'll Do

• Design and maintain backend infrastructure for permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability.
• Manage deployment architectures for hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Improve system reliability, performance, and security in production.
• Partner closely with product to deliver features while upholding quality standards.
• Drive AI-native development practices to enable rapid, high-quality releases.

What We're Looking For

• 1 to 6 years of professional backend development experience.
• Production experience building backend services with TypeScript and NestJS.
• Production experience with PostgreSQL and Prisma.
• Experience managing deployments with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• A track record of improving production reliability, security, performance, observability, or auditability.
• Practical experience with AI, ML, LLM, or AI-native systems in a production context.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: 70,000 to 110,000 EUR per year.
• Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in Berlin, Germany. This role requires working from the Berlin office and is not available on a remote basis.