Backend Engineer

Job description

### About the Role This is a core backend engineering role at a small, high-caliber founding team building AI-native operations infrastructure for private markets. You'll own the 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. ### What You'll Do - Manage and evolve backend infrastructure with a strong emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability. - Oversee deployment architectures for both hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tooling. - Enhance system reliability, performance, and security across production environments. - Partner closely with product teams to ship features while maintaining high 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. - Proficiency in **TypeScript** and **NestJS** for building production-grade backend services. - Hands-on experience with **PostgreSQL** and **Prisma** in production environments. - Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as **Terraform** or **Pulumi** to manage deployments. - Comfort working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment with a high degree of ownership. ### Compensation & Benefits - **Salary:** €70,000 – €110,000 per year - **Visa sponsorship:** Available ### Location On-site in **Berlin, Germany**.