Senior Backend Engineer, traide
B2B SaaS Startup
€80-110k
AI automation for industrial trade
Be an early applicant
AI automation for industrial trade
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
€80-110k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make trade compliance effortless and scalable through AI - empowering teams across industries to trade with confidence, clarity, and control.
Role
Who you are
- You're an experienced engineer who cares deeply about craft, but even more about impact. You love clear thinking over hype, and you're energized by the idea of turning AI research into products people actually use every day
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, ideally building complex products in dynamic environments
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Deep proficiency in TypeScript, including advanced type-level programming
- Familiarity with synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns, HTTP APIs (REST and GraphQL), event-driven architecture, and common design patterns
- Solid database skills across both relational and non-relational databases such as Postgres and Redis or similar
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud, and the services that typically come with them
- You embrace AI tools in your workflow and are driven to master emerging technologies
- You champion code quality and drive best practices across the team
- You thrive in fast-moving environments - seeking opportunities to learn, grow, and both give and receive feedback
- Strong English skills (C1 or better); German is a plus but not required
- Curiosity about adjacent fields like DevOps, Security, Frontend development, AI Engineering etc
- We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're passionate about making a difference and eager to learn, we'd love to hear from you – even if you don't meet every requirement
What the job involves
- At traide AI, we believe customs specialists deserve smarter, faster workflows and the future of global trade depends on it. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in builing robust, AI-powered backend services and infrastructure that drives the value creation for our customers. Your main expertise lies in backend technology but you should not be afraid to contribute to other parts of the application
- You'll join a tight-knit, VC-backed B2B startup - calm but ambitious - where your ideas shape both product and culture
- Own the end-to-end delivery of new features and improvements in our web application across the whole stack: shaping everything from technical design to production release
- Write both client-side and server-side code within our well-established codebases
- Analyse and communicate trade-offs in technical designs in RFC style discussions, drive decisions for your projects
- Be the backend expert in rotating project teams, give feedback on the contribution of other team members within your area of expertise
- Work alongside designers to shape user flows, evaluate feasibility, and improve interfaces and user experience
- Partner with AI engineers to bring cutting-edge research and prototypes into production-ready features
- Contribute your perspective to product discussions, helping set direction with both technical and user impact in mind
- Set and uphold high standards for code quality, architecture, and best practices within the team
- Design and maintain robust automated tests to ensure reliability and quality at scale
- Develop and improve instructions, guardrails and feedback mechanisms for coding agents
- Select and configure tooling that improves developer experience and keeps our CI/CD pipeline efficient
- Proactively identify and solve technical challenges before they become blockers
- Share your expertise through code reviews, mentoring, and documentation — helping others level up and ensuring our knowledge grows as the team grows
- Our Tech Stack:
- React & Chakra UI (Component library)
- GraphQL
- Node.js & Prisma (ORM)
- Python & FastAPI & SQLAlchemy
- Postgres for storage & Redis for caching & messages
- Terraform / Open Tofu orchestrating Google Cloud Platform
Application process
- You will receive feedback within two weeks. The process includes interviews, a practical challenge, and conversations with our team
Our take
Navigating customs processes can be a cumbersome challenge for businesses, often involving manual efforts and potential compliance pitfalls. With traditional methods being both time-consuming and prone to errors, traide is stepping into the arena to streamline and automate customs procedures for companies of all sizes and industries.
traide's SaaS platform employs advanced AI models to interpret and translate individual product information into the necessary customs data. This approach not only ensures accuracy but also automates what has traditionally been a manual process. By offering this cloud-based, AI-driven tool, traide allows companies to create secure and automated customs declarations, providing a more efficient and reliable alternative to conventional methods.
The infusion of recent capital earmarks the company for further development and scaling of its solution. With a solid foundation in place, traide is now poised to shape the future of customs processes by reaching a broader market and expanding its capabilities at the intersection of AI, cloud technology, and international trade facilitation.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2023
$1.2m
SEED
Total funding: $1.2m
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Leonie Althaus
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently serving as the Strategic Partnership Development Manager at Girls in Tech. Prior to this they co-founded Mellon Services where they served as the COO.
Hendrik Niemann
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously founded Leasy. They also taught as a Freelance Lecturer at CODE University of Applied Sciences. Prior to this, they were a Software Engineer and then Head of Learning Analytics at Kiron Open Higher Education.
Philipp Friebertshäuser
(Co-Founder & Managing Director)Previously co-founded Markov Solutions where they served as the Managing Director. They also worked as an AI Software Engineer at Charité.
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