Founding 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
This is a founding engineer position at an early-stage, Berlin-based startup building an AI-native automation platform for private market operations — think fund accounting, reconciliation, treasury, and reporting workflows. The platform uses autonomous AI agents to connect to inboxes, web portals, and financial data sources, extract key data points, reconcile accounts, and generate journal entries for existing ERPs — turning days of manual work into minutes.
You'll work directly alongside the founding team and early customers, with maximum ownership and a clear path to a leadership role as the company scales. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.
What You'll Do
Required:
This is a fully on-site role based in Berlin, Germany. Candidates must be based in Berlin or willing to relocate. Visa sponsorship is available for candidates eligible to work in Germany.
This is a founding engineer position at an early-stage, Berlin-based startup building an AI-native automation platform for private market operations — think fund accounting, reconciliation, treasury, and reporting workflows. The platform uses autonomous AI agents to connect to inboxes, web portals, and financial data sources, extract key data points, reconcile accounts, and generate journal entries for existing ERPs — turning days of manual work into minutes.
You'll work directly alongside the founding team and early customers, with maximum ownership and a clear path to a leadership role as the company scales. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.
What You'll Do
- Build and own core platform components, including backend services, production-grade APIs, and AI agent infrastructure
- Design and implement LLM-powered and agentic workflows that automate complex private market operations end-to-end
- Integrate with financial systems including ERPs, banking feeds, email, and file storage to create a unified data layer
- Work directly with customers (design partners) to understand their workflows and translate requirements into product features
- Actively contribute to the product roadmap alongside the founding team
- Help shape engineering culture, tooling, and hiring as the team grows
Required:
- 1–3 years of professional software engineering experience
- Hands-on experience building or operating AI-native infrastructure, including large language models (LLMs) and agentic/autonomous systems in production
- Domain knowledge in financial operations — particularly fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, or treasury workflows
- Strong backend development skills; comfortable building and maintaining production-grade APIs and services
- High ownership mindset — able to operate with autonomy and thrive in a fast-paced, early-stage environment with ambiguity
- Based in Berlin or willing to relocate; eligible to work in Germany (visa sponsorship available)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills within a small, tight-knit founding team
- Prior experience at an AI infrastructure, fintech, or private markets technology company
- Familiarity with private market structures (e.g. fund accounting, transfer agency, NAV reporting)
- Experience integrating with ERP or financial data systems
- Salary: €70,000 – €110,000 per year, depending on experience
- Equity participation as a founding team member
- Visa sponsorship available
- High-impact, high-ownership role with a direct path to engineering leadership
This is a fully on-site role based in Berlin, Germany. Candidates must be based in Berlin or willing to relocate. Visa sponsorship is available for candidates eligible to work in Germany.
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