About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a founding engineer position at an early-stage AI fintech company building intelligent automation for private market operations. You'll work directly alongside the founding team and customers to shape the core product — an AI-powered platform that automates fund accounting workflows like data capture, reconciliation, and journal entry generation. This is a maximum-ownership role with a clear path into leadership.

WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and iterate on core product components, including AI agents that integrate with inboxes, web portals, and financial data sources. - Design and develop production-grade backend APIs and services that power end-to-end private market operations workflows. - Work directly with design partners and customers to gather requirements, define the product roadmap, and communicate trade-offs. - Contribute to recruiting and help shape the culture and team as an early hire.

- Operate with high autonomy in a fast-paced, ambiguous founding environment. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 1–3 years of professional software engineering experience. - Hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs) and agentic/autonomous system development. - Strong backend development skills, including building and operating production-grade APIs and services. - Experience building or maintaining AI-native operations infrastructure (e.g.

accounting, reporting, reconciliation, or treasury systems). - Domain knowledge in private markets fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury processes. - Comfort working in a founding team environment with high ownership, proactive communication, and comfort with ambiguity. - Experience integrating and operating LLMs and agent-based systems in production. - Eligibility to work in Germany (visa sponsorship is available).

- Based in or willing to relocate to Berlin, Germany. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Salary range: €70,000 – €110,000 per year. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates. LOCATION On-site in Berlin, Germany.

Source listing: ashby_clera