Senior/Staff Product Engineer (m/f/x)
Cortea AI
BerlinPosted 14 days agoDiscoveredMatch locked
Full TimeEngineering
About us
We’re
Cortea
, a Berlin startup
transforming audits with AI
. Manual, document-heavy audits waste expert time while demand keeps rising. Our
AI-powered software and specialized AI agents
remove the repetitive work so auditors can focus on judgment.
Backed by top-tier VCs with >15m funding, with a working product and paying customers, we’re rapidly scaling.
We value
first-principles thinking, speed, trust, and kindness
. We build side by side
in our Berlin office
.
Your Role
We're looking for an
experienced engineer who's happy anywhere in the stack
and turns complex audit workflows into product auditors rely on every day. You pick up whatever a problem needs, from the data model to the interface to the agents behind it.
A lot of what we build has no reference implementation. You're
comfortable wading into something nobody has solved yet
and shipping a first version that actually works.
Our engineering team is a
small, flat group of builders
: strong ICs who open a laptop when they see a problem instead of scheduling a meeting. Everyone owns real product and architecture decisions, and that's exactly what we want more of.
What you'll do
- Build the interfaces auditors work in, partnering with design to turn complex flows into something that feels effortless
- Build and improve the agents at the core of the product, plus the harnesses and eval pipelines around them
- Make the long-running workflows behind the product reliable and debuggable, so failures surface fast instead of silently
- Use AI heavily in your own workflow to move faster, without ever shipping output you can't stand behind
- Drive the how in RFCs and technical discussions with other engineers, and partner with product on the what
Qualifications
You'll fit here if you:
- Have 5+ years shipping production web applications across the stack
- Write production APIs and model the data behind them so it holds up under multi-tenancy and load
- Are strong on the frontend and can build genuinely complex UI
- Get how LLM agents actually work: agents, harnesses, tool use, and measuring quality with evals
- Keep up with where AI is moving and bring the latest tools into how you work to make yourself faster
- Bring a strong product mindset and real ownership of outcomes
- Make architectural decisions, weigh trade-offs, and build things other engineers can extend
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and work things out from fundamentals when there's no established answer
Nice-to-haves that are a plus:
- Hands-on experience building agents, harnesses, or eval pipelines
- Data-dense or workflow-heavy B2B products
- Scaling multi-tenant systems as data and traffic grow
- Audit, finance, compliance, or another domain where being wrong is expensive
- Early-stage startup or fast-moving engineering environment
Our tech
- React, TS, Tailwind, TanStack
- Python, Postgres, Temporal, Kafka, Redis
- GCP, Azure, k8s
- GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion
What We Offer
•
High impact & growth
Front-row seat to scaling an AI startup with real ownership from day one
•
Mission-driven culture
First-principles thinking, bold ideas, and a supportive team
•
Attractive compensation
competitive salary + meaningful equity
•
Personal development
Learning budget for courses and conferences
•
True Berlin startup environment
Central Berlin office, team lunches, retreats, flexible vacation
Interview process
•
First Call
— Intro to Cortea with our Founders Associate Liza
•
Second Call
— Technical interview with our Member of Technical Staff Jendrik
•
Third Call
— Deep dive into our culture with our Co-Founder Philipp
•
On-site Half-Day (Berlin)
— Meet the team and work on a real problem together
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Skills
artificial-intelligenceazuregcpkafkakubernetesllmpostgresqlpythonreactredistailwindtypescript
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