Backend Engineer

About the Role

Join a small, high-caliber founding team at a pre-seed AI-native fintech startup building the infrastructure that powers private market operations — including fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation. As a Backend Engineer, you'll own core backend systems with a deep focus on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability, supporting both hosted and self-hosted deployment environments.

This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape the technical foundations of a product used by asset servicers and asset managers who rely on it for high-stakes, enterprise-grade workflows.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve backend infrastructure for permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability across all deployment environments.

• Design and manage deployment architectures for both hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Improve system reliability, performance, and security in production at an enterprise-grade standard.

• Partner closely with product teams to ship features quickly without sacrificing quality or maintainability.

• Drive AI-native development practices that enable rapid, high-quality releases.

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 1–6 years of backend development experience.

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and NestJS for building backend services.

• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Prisma in production-grade environments.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi to manage cloud deployments.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with the broader stack: Inngest, Mastra, React, or Tailwind.

• Background in financial services, private markets, or enterprise SaaS products.

• Experience with self-hosted deployment models and strict data isolation requirements.

• Prior experience at a high-growth startup or in a founding-team environment.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: €70,000 – €110,000 per year, depending on experience.

• Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.

• Opportunity for meaningful early-stage equity and direct impact on product direction.

Location

This role is on-site in Berlin, Germany. The team works together in person — no remote option is available at this time.