Backend Engineer
— Berlin, GermanyFrom 70000.00 EUR
Berlin, GermanyFull-timeCleraNEWHOT
🇩🇪 Your real take-home in Germany
Lower band · est.Gross / yr
$70k
Before tax
Tax & SS
−$27k
~38% effective
Net / yr
$43k
≈ $4k/mo
Purchasing power vs NYC
$67k/yr NYC-equiv
35% cheaper than NYC · est. rent + living: €1,400–2,200
~38% (income tax + health + pension contributions). Estimates only — not tax advice.
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About The Role
You'll own core backend infrastructure at a small, high-caliber founding team building AI-native operations infrastructure for private markets. This is a foundational engineering role where your work directly powers fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation — with a deep emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability across hosted and self-hosted deployments.
What You'll Do
On-site in Berlin, Germany. This role requires regular in-person presence at the Berlin office.
You'll own core backend infrastructure at a small, high-caliber founding team building AI-native operations infrastructure for private markets. This is a foundational engineering role where your work directly powers fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation — with a deep emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability across hosted and self-hosted deployments.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain backend infrastructure with a strong focus on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability.
- Design and manage deployment architectures for both hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Improve system reliability, performance, and security in production environments.
- Collaborate closely with product teams to ship features without compromising quality standards.
- Drive AI-native development practices that enable rapid, high-quality releases.
- 1–6 years of backend development experience.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and NestJS for building production backend services.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Prisma in production-grade backends.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi to manage deployments.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment with high ownership and low process.
- Salary: €70,000 – €110,000 per year.
- Visa sponsorship is available.
On-site in Berlin, Germany. This role requires regular in-person presence at the Berlin office.
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