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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Clera
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Salary:** €80,000.0 - €120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Quality, Communications Protocols, Data Security, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Next.js, TypeScript, Workflow Management Systems, Backend, Stripe, Asynchronous Programming
- **Published:** July 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=226316e09c2a3dd9

## About the Role

Must-haves:

 * Proficiency in backend development with TypeScript (Node.js) and a strong command of asynchronous programming patterns.
 * Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and an ORM - ideally Drizzle - for robust data access layers.
 * Experience with Next.js, including API routes or server components used for backend services.
 * Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and designing scalable, maintainable core services.
 * C1+ English proficiency (written and verbal).
 * Strong CS fundamentals - whether from a formal degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have:

 * Experience integrating Stripe payments and related billing workflows.
 * Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Temporal) or API frameworks (e.g. Hono).
 * Background in energy, fintech, or other regulated/complex-domain infrastructure.

Soft skills:

 * Strong written and verbal communicator.
 * Ownership mindset - you treat problems as yours to solve, not to hand off.
 * Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous early-stage environment.

## Description

Join a fast-moving energy tech startup building the operating system for the next generation of energy. The platform powers modular billing engines, low-level energy-market communication protocols, and a full accounting ledger - enabling dynamic electricity plans that help businesses and consumers significantly reduce energy costs.

As a Backend Engineer on the core infrastructure team, you'll design and scale the foundational systems that make all of this possible. You'll work across billing, payments, and distributed data services in a high-ownership, low-bureaucracy environment., * Solve for complexity through design - architect clean, maintainable solutions to genuinely hard infrastructure problems.

 * Scale the core - build and evolve the services that power billing, energy-market integrations, and accounting at scale.
 * Bias for action - move fast, ship iteratively, and take end-to-end ownership of your work.
 * Raise the bar - contribute to engineering standards, code quality, and team practices.


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