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 Software 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 Software Engineer and a core contributor to our founding team, you will heavily influence our technical strategy and architectural roadmap. You will assume complete, full-lifecycle accountability for the backend systems driving our applications, spanning every layer from early database schemas through API responses and observability dashboards.

• End-to-end ownership: You will have complete accountability for every facet of the features you develop, spanning from database modeling and API design through to final deployment and system monitoring. You will constantly iterate on our architecture, guaranteeing that our Effect & TypeScript codebases remain highly robust, strictly type-safe, and highly maintainable.
• Build complex logic, not just simple endpoints: Your focus will be on the rigorous backend engineering that drives our core platform. Rather than merely outputting basic CRUD operations, you will architect advanced authorization rules, AI pipelines, and asynchronous workflows required to resolve difficult user challenges.

Past examples of initiatives you might tackle:

• Complex authorization engine constructed to manage the escalating intricacies of varying institutional settings by merging ReBac and ABAC methodologies
• Complex AI pipelines built to pull visual and textual data out of documents, coordinating several models and embedding concepts directly into knowledge graphs
• Migration of a legacy fullstack monolith into a fully typesafe API ecosystem built using 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

Please don't worry if you lack deep expertise in every exact technology listed on day one. We fully trust your capacity to rapidly learn and acclimate to unfamiliar tools and frameworks on the job.

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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