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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Clera
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Salary:** €70,000.0 - €110,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Pulumi, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, NestJS, Terraform
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5855575178

## About the Role

* 1-6 years of backend development experience.
 * Proficiency in TypeScript and NestJS for building production-grade backend services.
 * Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Prisma in production environments.
 * Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi to manage deployments.
 * Comfort working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment with a high degree of ownership.

## Description

This is a core backend engineering role at a small, high-caliber founding team building AI-native operations infrastructure for private markets. You'll own the systems that power fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury automation - with a deep focus on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability across both hosted and self-hosted deployments.
What You'll Do

 * Manage and evolve backend infrastructure with a strong emphasis on permissions, auditability, traceability, and observability.
 * Oversee deployment architectures for both hosted and self-hosted environments using infrastructure-as-code tooling.
 * Enhance system reliability, performance, and security across production environments.
 * Partner closely with product teams to ship features while maintaining high quality standards.
 * Drive AI-native development practices that enable rapid, high-quality releases.


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