Backend Engineer

Role details

ABOUT THE ROLE You'll own core backend infrastructure at a small, high-caliber founding team building AI-native operations infrastructure for private markets. This is a foundational engineering role where your work directly powers fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation — with a deep emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability across hosted and self-hosted deployments. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and maintain backend infrastructure with a strong focus on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability. - Design and manage deployment architectures for both hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tooling. - Improve system reliability, performance, and security in production environments. - Collaborate closely with product teams to ship features without compromising quality standards. - Drive AI-native development practices that enable rapid, high-quality releases. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 1–6 years of backend development experience. - Strong proficiency in TypeScript and NestJS for building production backend services. - Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Prisma in production-grade backends. - Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi to manage deployments. - Comfortable working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment with high ownership and low process. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Salary: €70,000 – €110,000 per year. - Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in Berlin, Germany. This role requires regular in-person presence at the Berlin office.