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We execute trade and distribution end-to-end, on our own account, at the speed of compute - and we are becoming the supplier of record for the entire industry.\nIndustrial procurement is a €900B market in Europe alone and the largest manual market on earth. 95% of customers have no direct access to global supply chains. Materials pass through four or five intermediaries before they reach a site, and 40% of the margin evaporates on the way. For decades, the operating system of this industry was people: people to source, negotiate, finance, ship, and sell.\nWe built the alternative from scratch. We are the supplier. We buy from global sources and sell to European customers on our own account. Our AI runs the full trade: sourcing, quality, pricing, sales, logistics, credit, and financing. One request. A firm quote in minutes. Delivered on time. For the customer, it feels like buying from their preferred local supplier. No warehouses. No fleet. No inventory risk. Every trade is pre-sold before it is bought.\nWe are also the credit counterparty. Customers are scored and insured in minutes and get up to 60 days of payment terms priced into the quote itself. The working capital behind every trade is bank-funded, not equity-funded.\nWhere we are today:\nStrong triple-digit-million euro turnover run rate, the majority of it from repeat customers\n\nSeven European markets live, sourced from suppliers across Asia and beyond\n\n80+ people across Berlin (HQ), London, and Shanghai\n\n$90M raised in equity and debt, including our $40M Series B, from Atomico, Project A, Target Global, and Inven Capital - with working capital facilities from UniCredit and KfW\n\nThe margin is in the bits. The moat is in the atoms. We are building the supplier of record for industrial materials - and redefining how global trade works in one of the largest and most essential industries on earth.\nAbout the role\nAndercore runs global trade end to end, from sourcing and pricing to sales, logistics and financing, and AI agents do a growing share of that work. Order values are high and prices and stock change daily, so the systems underneath have to be fast, correct and reliable at all times. \nAs a Staff Engineer, you own our hardest technical problems and set the architecture across teams. You focus on what a fast-growing trading business cannot afford to get wrong: speed, reliability, security and observability. You report to our VP Engineering and work closely with our Senior Product Engineers, QA and product managers. You stay hands-on: you write code, review designs and raise the bar for everyone around you\nTech stack\nJava 21 and Spring Boot 3, Python, LangGraph and LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), PostgreSQL, Kinesis, AWS with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and TypeScript with Node.js, Next.js and React. Including Salesforce, which we are moving our transaction core out of.\nWhat you will do\nSet the technical direction across teams: define the target architecture, write the RFCs behind big decisions, and make sure teams build towards the same picture.\n\nLead the hardest technical work yourself, from design to production, instead of only advising on it.\n\nShape the carve-out of our transaction core from Salesforce into a modern, modular core system, with a migration path that never disrupts daily trading.\n\nMake reliability, security and observability part of how we build: monitoring, alerting, incident response and postmortems that lead to real changes.\n\nDesign how our AI agents act safely on money-touching paths, with evaluations, guardrails, audit trails and human review where it matters.\n\nSet standards for correctness and data integrity, including idempotency, validation and testing, together with QA.\n\nMentor engineers through design reviews, pairing and direct feedback, and help us hire by defining what great engineering looks like at Andercore.\n\nIn your first six months, you might\nDesign the architecture of our pricing engine so it scales with a growing assortment and more markets, and serves correct prices to sales, and later directly to customers, in milliseconds.\n\nLay out the target architecture and first steps for moving our transaction core off Salesforce.\n\nBuild the observability and incident setup that lets us catch problems before customers or colleagues notice them\n\nWhat you bring\nAt least 8 years of experience building and running software in production, including systems where errors cost real money.\n\nDeep backend expertise at production scale in Java or a comparable language such as Kotlin, C# or Go, and willingness to work in Java and Spring Boot.\n\nA track record of setting architecture across several teams, through influence rather than a management title.\n\nExperience designing transactional, distributed and event-driven systems, with a strong focus on correctness, failure modes and performance.\n\nHands-on depth in reliability, security and observability, and experience leading incidents and postmortems.\n\nExperience in a fast-growing company, and a track record of solving business problems, not only technical ones.\n\nAI is part of your daily work. Experience building or evaluating AI agents in production is a strong plus.\n\nExperience with re-platforming or carving out systems from a platform like Salesforce or an ERP is a plus\n\nPractical details\nLocation: Berlin, hybrid\n\nWorking language: English\n\nA learning budget for your development\n\nStart date: As soon as possible\n\nWe are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, or any other characteristic. 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