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
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Own and evolve backend infrastructure with a strong emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability
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Design and manage deployment architectures for both hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tooling
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Enhance system reliability, performance, and security in production environments
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Partner closely with product and frontend teams to ship features while upholding quality standards
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Drive AI-native development practices that enable rapid, high-quality releases
What We're Looking For
Required:
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1–3 years of backend engineering experience, with a focus on permissions systems, auditability, traceability, and observability
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Familiarity with distributed systems and modern observability toolchains (metrics, logs, tracing)
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Comfortable working in a small founding team — strong ownership, initiative, and cross-functional coordination are essential
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Eligible to work in Germany and willing to work on-site in Berlin
Tech Stack (familiarity a plus):
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TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma
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Inngest, Mastra
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React, Tailwind (for context)
Nice to Have:
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Background in fintech, private markets, fund accounting, or adjacent regulated industries
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Experience with enterprise security patterns: SSO, role-based access control, strict data isolation
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Prior experience at companies building AI/LLM-powered workflows or agentic systems
Compensation & Benefits
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Salary: €70,000 – €110,000 per year, depending on experience
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Early-stage equity opportunity
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High ownership and influence over architecture decisions at a foundational stage
Location
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Berlin, Germany — on-site
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Candidates must be eligible to work in Germany; visa sponsorship is not available
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