Backend Engineer

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 .