Staff Engineer

The role

You will serve as the technical backbone of the engineering team by writing production code and solving complex architectural problems. You will build core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure while mentoring other engineers.

What you will do

• Own complex engineering work across the product suite
• Build core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure
• Define and evolve architecture decisions across multiple products
• Write and ship code
• Eliminate technical debt by refactoring abstractions
• Raise reliability and standards across all teams
• Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and direct feedback
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of AI capabilities

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Track record of solving hard technical problems in production
• Deep expertise in backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure
• Comfortable in frontend when needed
• Python, React, TypeScript
• Experience designing and evolving systems across multiple products and teams
• Experience improving system performance, reliability, and scalability at scale
• Containerization (Docker)
• Cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Wants to work in-person in Munich with a higher intensity than a 9-5 job

Nice to have

• Experience building or integrating AI systems, LLMs, or large-scale data pipelines

Benefits

• Actual ownership
• Exceptional colleagues
• Real shares including voting rights
• Company card
• AI or productivity tools
• Free team dinners up to 4x/week
• UrbanSportsClub membership
• A company bike
• Team workouts 3x/week
• Easy relocation to Munich with access to apartments around €800/month

Before you apply

• 2–3 reference checks after accepting an offer

About the company

Mercura (YC W25) helps companies that build the real world move at software speed by automating back-office work. The team of 16 targets $10M by the end of 2026 and is expanding into the US.