Backend Engineer

Title: Backend Engineer Company: Clera Location: 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.