Backend Engineer
clera · Berlin · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a small engineering team building AI-powered operations infrastructure for private markets. You will own core backend systems that support fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation, with a focus on making these workflows secure, traceable, and reliable.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and maintain backend infrastructure for permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability.
- Manage deployment architectures for hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Improve the reliability, performance, and security of production systems.
- Partner with product teams to deliver features while maintaining high quality standards.
- Use AI-native development practices to support rapid, high-quality releases.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- One to six years of professional backend development experience.
- Production experience building backend services with TypeScript and NestJS.
- Production experience with PostgreSQL and Prisma.
- Experience managing deployments with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
- Experience improving production reliability, security, performance, observability, or auditability.
- Practical experience with AI, machine learning, LLMs, or AI-native systems.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Annual base salary: €70,000 to €110,000. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
This is an on-site role based in Berlin, Germany.