Backend Engineer (Infrastructure & Platform) (f/m/d)
Role Summary
Join Zeit Ai as a Backend Engineer in Munich, contributing to next-gen data platforms with LLMs, aimed at streamlining customer onboarding and data integration.
About the Organisation
- First call with Elisa
- Tech screening
- Tech interview with Jonas
- Decomposition interview
- Second technical interview
- Behavioural interview
- Take-home case + Meet the team
- References, offer
Key Responsibilities
- Build the sync layer: millions of rows from ERP, CRM, and homegrown systems, ingested incrementally and reliably, without an engineer babysitting the pipeline
- Cut onboarding time: connecting a new customer's data sources should take hours, not weeks. You abstract sources so our agents work with any of them the same way
- Make the agent fast where it counts: speed comes from tool design that parallelizes, sub-agents, and branching, not tokens per second. You design tools so work can run concurrently and safely
- Route data safely between customer networks and ours: security and reliability are features our customers pay for
- Build the guardrails for correctness: automatic checks and integrated validation tooling so the agent's output can be trusted, and so it flags what a human should verify
- Keep the platform simple: choose boring technology where boring wins, and be able to say why every system we run earns its place
Minimum Requirements
- You've been a lead architect or equivalent: built many systems yourself, and seen how large systems fail and evolve. You're here to learn from customers and take bets on a product that doesn't exist yet, not to learn how to write software.
- Strong TypeScript and cloud infrastructure experience
- English C1 or above; German a plus
Working Conditions
- We are based in Munich and build the team around in-person work. We pay for your relocation.
- Regular San Francisco offsites for product sprints and staying close to the frontier.
- Zeit AI package: daily lunch allowance, free in-office dinner, wellpass membership, best tech & tools
- You know someone? €5k referral bonus for every successful hire.
Application Information
Still apply if you do not match every requirement. If you are exceptional in core areas and learn fast, we want to talk.
Compensation: €95K – €270K • Offers Equity • €5k referral bonus
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- • total comp €95K – €270K • Offers Equity • €5k referral bonus
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