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Staff Engineer

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Mercura logoMercura · Munich, Germany
Full-timeOn-site2mo ago
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As a Staff Engineer , you will be the technical backbone of Mercura's engineering team - spanning multiple products and development streams. This is a deeply hands-on role for engineers who lead by doing: writing production code, solving the hardest architectural problems, and making the people around them meaningfully better. We're looking for a highly technical engineers who want to ship core systems, strengthen architecture across products, and leave every codebase they touch in better shape than they found it. If you want outsized technical ownership without moving into management, this is your role. What you will be working on Technical Leadership in Code: Own the most complex and highest-leverage engineering work across Mercura's product suite - building core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure that other engineers build on top of. Cross-Product Architecture: Define and evolve architecture decisions across multiple products. You'll make the calls that prevent architectural dead-ends two years from now. Hands-On Execution: Spend the majority of your time writing and shipping code. You lead by example - when something is hard, you're in the trenches. Engineering Quality: Eliminate technical debt by refactoring abstractions and raising reliability, standards across all teams. Technical Mentorship: Elevate the engineers around you through code review, pairing, and direct feedback. Help teams deliver consistently without burning out or accumulating hidden risk. AI Systems: Contribute to the architecture and implementation of Mercura's AI capabilities - from LLM pipelines to data infrastructure - at the intersection of performance and product quality.

Requirements

  • Technical Skills & Experience:
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of solving genuinely hard technical problems in production
  • Deep expertise across the stack - strong in backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure, comfortable in frontend when needed (Python, React, TypeScript)
  • Proven experience designing and evolving systems across multiple products and teams
  • Experience improving system performance, reliability, and scalability at scale
  • Cloud & DevOps fluency: containerization (Docker), cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS/GCP), infrastructure as code (Terraform)
  • Experience building or integrating AI systems, LLMs, or large-scale data pipelines is a strong plus
  • Commitment & Mindset:
  • Deep technical ownership: You hold the bar. You notice when things are slipping and do something about it - without being asked
  • Leads through doing: Your authority comes from your output and your judgment, not your title. You mentor by being the best engineer in the room
  • Multiplier mentality: You measure your success not just by what you ship, but by how much better the team ships after working with you
  • Mission-driven: Your work is part of how you define yourself. You're fully committed to achieving ambitious goals amid uncertainty
  • Pragmatic and decisive: You know when to go fast and when to go slow. You make architectural calls with incomplete information and stand behind them
  • You want to work in-person in Munich with a higher intensity than in a 9-5 job
  • Why Mercura
  • Work with the latest tech : AI is at the core of our product, and use the latest

Benefits

Learn to build a company : Over five Mercura alumni have gone on to found their own companies and raise millions after their time with us. At Mercura, you'll take on real responsibility and gain the hands-on experience only possible in a high-growth startup.Guaranteed career growth in a fast-scaling team where top performers move up fastAn ambitious and caring team that sees their work as more than just a jobReal shares in our company with the most favorable tax treatment - no VSOP/ESOPFree team dinnerUrbanSportsClub membership and access to a company bikeEasy relocation to Munich - our office is located in the Werk1 Startup Incubator , where you can rent an apartment right next to the officeAccess to any AI or productivity tools you need

Additional Information

Mercura ( YC W25 ) helps the companies that build the real world move at software speed, automating the back-office work that runs the $12 trillion industry behind every hospital, school, and power plant. We started with one of their biggest bottlenecks - turning messy technical requests into accurate quotes - and grew to $2M ARR in our first year . With a team of 16, we're now targeting $10M by the end of 2026 as well as our expansion into the US.

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