Backend Engineer

About the Role Join a small, high-caliber founding team at a pre-seed AI/fintech startup building the next generation of AI-native operations infrastructure for private markets. You'll own core backend systems that power 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 a high-ownership, high-impact role for an engineer who thrives in early-stage environments and wants to shape foundational architecture from the ground up. What You'll Do Own and manage backend infrastructure for permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability

Design and oversee deployment architectures for hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tools

Enhance system reliability, performance, and security in production

Partner closely with product teams to ship features while maintaining high quality standards

Drive AI-native development practices to enable rapid, high-quality releases

What We're Looking For

Required

1–6 years of backend engineering experience with a strong emphasis on permissions systems, auditability, traceability, and observability

Hands-on experience 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 in use

TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Inngest, Mastra, React, Tailwind

Nice to have

Background in fintech, private markets, fund accounting, or enterprise SaaS

Experience at companies operating in the AI/ML or financial operations space

Compensation & Benefits Salary: €70,000 – €110,000 per year, depending on experience

Early-stage equity opportunity

Direct impact on product direction and architecture at a founding-team level

Location Berlin, Germany — on-site

Candidates must be eligible to work in Germany; no visa sponsorship available

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