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