# Backend Engineer - Company: [Clera]() - Location: Berlin - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: €70K – €110K - Posted: September 10, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role You'll own core backend infrastructure at a pre-seed AI-native fintech startup building operations tooling for private markets. Working closely with a small, high-caliber founding team, you'll be responsible for the systems that power fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation, with a strong emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability across both hosted and self-hosted deployments. ### What You'll Do * Build and maintain backend infrastructure covering permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability. * Oversee deployment architectures for hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tools. * Continuously improve system reliability, performance, and security in production. * Partner with product teams to ship features while upholding high quality standards. * Drive AI-native development practices that enable rapid, high-quality releases. ### What We're Looking For * 1 to 6 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**. * A track record of improving production reliability, security, performance, observability, or auditability. * Practical hands-on experience with AI, ML, LLMs, or AI-native systems. * Comfortable working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment with a small team. ### Compensation & Benefits * Salary range: 70,000 to 110,000 EUR annually. * Visa sponsorship is available. ### Location On-site in Berlin, Germany. This role requires in-person presence and is not available on a remote basis. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: