Mercura

(Senior) Fullstack Engineer

Munich. Posted 10 months ago

The role

You will build AI systems end-to-end and design high-performance, reliable systems. You will own features from architecture to deployment and work closely with users to translate workflows into engineering decisions.

What you will do

  • Design and build high-performance, reliable systems that power AI products
  • Own features end-to-end from architecture and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and iteration
  • Develop scalable APIs and backend systems
  • Work closely with users and the product team to translate workflows into product and engineering decisions
  • Ship improvements quickly through fast iteration cycles
  • Contribute to LLM engineering and AI systems
  • Help shape the overall system architecture, deployment strategy, and engineering tooling

Required qualifications

  • Strong experience with full-stack software engineering (React, Typescript, Python)
  • Proven track record of architecting and building complex, production-grade software systems
  • Strong understanding of improving system performance, reliability, and scaling challenges in production environments
  • Experience with containerization (Docker)
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS/GCP)
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform)
  • High agency and ownership
  • Mission-driven
  • Product mindset
  • Excited to iterate quickly and build software in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Want to work in-person in Munich with a higher intensity than in a 9-5 job

Nice to have

  • Experience integrating LLMs, AI systems, or large-scale data pipelines into production software

Benefits

  • Steepest possible learning curve
  • Build something with real-world impact
  • Ownership over comfort
  • Exceptional colleagues
  • Radical clarity
  • Company card
  • AI or productivity tools
  • Real equity in Mercura
  • Free team dinners up to 4x/week
  • UrbanSportsClub membership
  • A company bike
  • Team workouts 3x/week

Before you apply

  • 2-3 reference checks after acceptance

About the company

Mercura (YC W25) helps companies that build the real world move at software speed by automating back-office work. The team is targeting $10M by the end of 2026 and expansion into the US.