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.