acemate is building an AI learning & teaching platform for higher and further education institutions. We have strong traction, secured funding and are entering an exciting growth phase. We're looking for a passionate Senior Backend Engineer / Developer to drive our product forward and help us scale.

About acemate

Founded in 2024, acemate has quickly become the leading AI learning platform for higher and further education, trusted by top-tier institutions across four countries, including University of Cologne, WHU and the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (IHKs).

• Our Mission: Democratizing access to personalized learning. We don’t believe that AI will replace educators. Instead, we empower them to design and deliver personalized learning experiences at scale.
• Our Growth: We've raised pre-seed funding and are growing rapidly. While we focus on higher and further education in the DACH area today, we're already expanding into new regions and markets.
• Our Culture: We’re a young, driven team passionate about tackling the toughest challenges in education. We embrace builder culture and minimize scheduled meetings for ad-hoc discussions and maximized focus on coding and creating.

Tasks

What You'll Do

Serving as a Backend Engineer and a vital part of our core team, you will have a significant impact on guiding our architectural choices and technical direction. You will receive full end-to-end control over the underlying systems that power our product capabilities, spanning from the initial database schema to observability dashboards and API responses.

• Total system ownership: You will take full responsibility for the systems you build, overseeing the entire process from initial database modeling and API design to final deployment and ongoing monitoring. You will actively evolve our architectural foundations, ensuring our Effect & TypeScript codebase remains exceptionally robust, type-safe, and easy to maintain.
• Engineer complex logic, going beyond standard endpoints: Your primary focus will center on the fundamental heavy lifting within our platform. Rather than just pushing out basic CRUD operations, you will design the intricate asynchronous workflows, advanced AI pipelines, and complex authorization rules required to solve difficult user problems.

Past examples of initiatives you could take on:

• Robust authorization engine engineered to handle growing intricacies across diverse institutional settings through the integration of ReBac and ABAC
• Advanced AI pipelines created to extract textual and visual information from documents leveraging multiple models, then mapping those embedded topics directly into knowledge graphs
• Architecture migration shifting our underlying infrastructure from a fullstack monolith over to a rigorously type-safe API layer constructed with Effect

Tech Stack:

• Backend: Effect.ts, Hono, oRPC, Bun, Typescript
• Database: PostgreSQL (via Supabase)
• Infrastructure: Cloudflare (Workers, Workflows, R2, KV, Hyperdrive), Google Cloud (Gemini, Cloud Run)
• Tooling: Axiom, Sentry, PostHog, Langfuse, Stripe
• AI: Vercel AI SDK

Do not worry if you lack immediate expertise in every single technology listed on day one. We have full confidence in your ability to quickly upskill and adapt to modern frameworks and tools as we continue to grow.

Requirements

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of software engineering experience with strong TypeScript skills
• Startup experience: You’re comfortable in fast-paced, evolving environments
• Balanced AI approach: You knew how to code before Cursor and Claude Code, but understand how to leverage them effectively
• Product passion: High identification with our mission to transform education
• Bonus: Experience with authz systems, infra/devops, AI, or frontend work (Next.js/React)

Benefits

Benefits

• Competitive salary package with equity component
• Fully covered Deutschlandticket
• BusinessBike (bike or e-bike via leasing, also for private use )
• Working in a small but driven team built around performance and learning
• Flexible environment with high degree of autonomy
• Frequent team events and acemate parties! 🥳

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