Founding Engineer, Backend & Platform

Overview

About the Role We're a seed-stage startup building Germany's most modern accounting and tax advisory platform, an AI-powered operating system for tax advisory firms. We acquire established tax firms and transform them into high-performing, technology-enabled businesses through proprietary software and centralised services. As a Founding Engineer, Backend & Platform , you'll design and operate th

What you'll do

• About the Role We're a seed-stage startup building Germany's most modern accounting and tax advisory platform, an AI-powered operating system for tax advisory firms.
• We acquire established tax firms and transform them into high-performing, technology-enabled businesses through proprietary software and centralised services.
• As a Founding Engineer, Backend & Platform , you'll design and operate the core backend that powers our platform: enabling data flows, reliable workflows, and safe AI applications across dozens of firms.
• This is foundational, greenfield work, you'll define how data moves, how work gets done, and how we scale.
• Your code ships to real tax firms from day one.
• Visa sponsorship is available for this role.
• What You'll Do Design, implement, and operate core backend services spanning accounting, payroll, reporting, and compliance domains.
• Build robust data pipelines to ingest, normalise, and reconcile data from DATEV, banks, and document sources.
• Design and operate workflow orchestration for long-running, stateful, and failure-prone processes.
• Own correctness, observability, and performance of every system you ship.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Engineering.
• Experience level: 3+ yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Berlin.

Skills