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Staff Engineer

Mercura· Engineering
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Hybrid (Munich)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer role at Mercura, a YC-funded startup building AI quote and order automation for distributors and manufacturers. In-person in Munich, deep technical ownership across multiple products, hands-on coding, architecture leadership, and AI systems work.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of solving genuinely hard technical problems in production
  • Deep expertise across the stack - 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

Skills

Required:Software engineeringBackend systemsCloud & DevOps
Nice to have:Frontend (optional as needed)AI systems / LLMs

Benefits

  • Actual ownership: you own a real area end to end
  • Exceptional colleagues
  • Build something with real-world impact
  • Radical clarity
  • Steepest possible learning curve
  • Tools, no questions
  • Real shares with voting rights
  • The everyday: team events, UrbanSportsClub, company bike, workouts, easy relocation to Munich
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Mercura

AI Quote and Order Automation for Distributors & Manufacturers

Mercura automates quotes and orders for distributors & manufacturers in the construction supply chain. Our software lets sales teams process requests in minutes instead of days. By eliminating repetitive back-office tasks, we help sales reps focus on winning more deals and driving revenue.

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