Founding Engineer

About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI fintech company building intelligent automation for private market operations — think fund accounting, reconciliation, and reporting workflows. You'll work directly alongside the founding team and early design partners to shape both the product and the company itself, with a clear path to engineering leadership.

What You'll Do

  • Build and maintain core platform components, including AI agents that capture data from inboxes, web portals, and connected sources.

  • Design and implement production-grade backend APIs and services that power end-to-end financial operations workflows.

  • Develop and operate LLM-based and agentic systems that automate reconciliation, data extraction, and journal entry generation.

  • Collaborate directly with customers and design partners to gather requirements, define the product roadmap, and communicate trade-offs.

  • Contribute to hiring and help attract exceptional engineering talent as the team grows.

What We're Looking For

  • 1–3 years of professional software engineering experience.

  • Hands-on experience with large language models and agentic/autonomous systems in production environments.

  • Strong backend development skills, including building and maintaining production-grade APIs and services.

  • Experience building or operating AI-native operations infrastructure (e.g., for accounting, reconciliation, or treasury).

  • Domain knowledge in private markets fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury processes.

  • Comfort with ambiguity and high ownership in a small, fast-moving founding team.

  • Experience working directly with customers or design partners to shape product direction.

  • Eligible to work in Germany (visa sponsorship available); based in or willing to relocate to Berlin.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: €70,000 – €110,000 per year. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.

Location

On-site in Berlin, Germany.

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