Backend Engineer at Clera | JoBuzzer

Summary

Join a foundational engineering team in Berlin to build core backend infrastructure for an AI-native operations platform in the private markets industry. This role involves significant ownership and impact on systems for fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation, with a strong focus on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability. You will design and manage deployment architectures, enhance system reliability, and drive AI-native development practices. Requires 1-3 years of backend experience, familiarity with distributed systems and observability tools, and eligibility to work in Germany.

Required Skills

PrismaInngestTypescriptPostgreSQLNestJS

Details

Experience Required: 1+ years
Work Authorization: Work Auth Required, No Sponsorship
Posted: Jul 19, 2026

Description

About the Role

Join a small, high-caliber founding team in Berlin building core backend infrastructure for an AI-native operations platform targeting the private markets industry. The platform powers fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation — with a deep focus on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability across both hosted and self-hosted deployments.

This is an early engineering role with significant ownership and direct impact on the systems that define the product's foundation.

What You'll Do

Own and evolve backend infrastructure with a strong emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability
Design and manage deployment architectures for both hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tooling
Enhance system reliability, performance, and security in production environments
Partner closely with product and frontend teams to ship features while upholding quality standards
Drive AI-native development practices that enable rapid, high-quality releases

What We're Looking For

Required:

1–3 years of backend engineering experience, with a focus on permissions systems, auditability, traceability, and observability
Familiarity with distributed systems and modern observability toolchains (metrics, logs, tracing)
Comfortable working in a small founding team — strong ownership, initiative, and cross-functional coordination are essential
Eligible to work in Germany and willing to work on-site in Berlin

Tech Stack (familiarity a plus):

TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma
Inngest, Mastra
React, Tailwind (for context)

Nice to Have:

Background in fintech, private markets, fund accounting, or adjacent regulated industries
Experience with enterprise security patterns: SSO, role-based access control, strict data isolation
Prior experience at companies building AI/LLM-powered workflows or agentic systems

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: €70,000 – €110,000 per year, depending on experience
Early-stage equity opportunity
High ownership and influence over architecture decisions at a foundational stage

Location

Berlin, Germany — on-site
Candidates must be eligible to work in Germany; visa sponsorship is not available