Job description
Senior Backend Engineer
Company Overview
Acemate is building an AI learning & teaching platform for higher and further education institutions. We have strong traction, secured funding and are entering an exciting growth phase. We're looking for a passionate Senior Backend Engineer / Developer to drive our product forward and help us scale.
Founded in 2024, acemate has quickly become the leading AI learning platform for higher and further education, trusted by top-tier institutions across four countries, including University of Cologne, WHU and the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (IHKs).
Job Summary
As a Backend Engineer on our core team, you will heavily influence our technical direction and system architecture. We give you total ownership over the foundational systems powering our product. You will handle the entire development lifecycle, from early data modeling and API design to deploying and monitoring your work in production.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive systems from start to finish: If you build the infrastructure, you own it.
- Iterate on our core architecture so our Effect & TypeScript codebase remains highly maintainable, type-safe, and resilient.
- Design advanced AI pipelines, intricate authorization logic, and complex asynchronous workflows.
- Handle complex permission requirements utilizing a combination of ABAC and ReBac.
- Develop advanced AI pipelines designed to extract text and visual data from documents.
- Migrate core architecture, transitioning our existing fullstack monolith into a purely type-safe API layer powered by Effect.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 2+ years of software engineering experience with strong TypeScript skills.
- Startup experience: You’re comfortable in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- Balanced AI approach: You knew how to code before Cursor and Claude Code, but understand how to leverage them effectively.
- Product passion: High identification with our mission to transform education.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with authz systems, infra/devops, AI, or frontend work (Next.js/React).
Location
Berlin, Germany, Remote: False
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive salary package with equity component
- Fully covered Deutschlandticket
- BusinessBike (bike or e-bike via leasing, also for private use)
- Working in a small but driven team built around performance and learning
- Flexible environment with high degree of autonomy
- Frequent team events and acemate parties!
