Staff Engineer (m/f/d)

The role

You will set technical direction and architecture across teams while writing code. You will lead hard technical work, shape the migration of the transaction core from Salesforce, and design safe AI agent actions.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction across teams
• Define the target architecture and write RFCs
• Lead the hardest technical work from design to production
• Shape the carve-out of the transaction core from Salesforce
• Make reliability, security and observability part of how we build
• Design how AI agents act safely on money-touching paths
• Set standards for correctness and data integrity
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing and direct feedback
• Help hire by defining what great engineering looks like

Required qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience building and running software in production
• Deep backend expertise at production scale in Java or a comparable language such as Kotlin, C# or Go
• Willingness to work in Java and Spring Boot
• A track record of setting architecture across several teams through influence
• Experience designing transactional, distributed and event-driven systems
• Hands-on depth in reliability, security and observability
• Experience leading incidents and postmortems
• Experience in a fast-growing company
• A track record of solving business problems
• Working language: English

Nice to have

• Experience building or evaluating AI agents in production
• Experience with re-platforming or carving out systems from a platform like Salesforce or an ERP

Benefits

• Entrepreneurial freedom
• Join an experienced founding team of serial and 2nd-time founders
• Attractive base and bonus compensation program
• Collaboration with top-tier investors and angels

About the company

A11 is a next-generation supply chain platform that uses agentic AI and workflow automation. The company has a team of 80+ FTEs across Europe, China, and India.