# Senior/Staff Product Engineer (m/f/x) at Cortea

> Open job at Cortea in Berlin, Germany. Workplace: On-site.

Source: Germany Dev Jobs, https://germanydevjobs.com/jobs/cortea-senior-staff-product-engineer-m-f-x-p85j6t2
Posted 9 September 2026. Last checked on the employer's career site: 11 November 2026.

## Facts

- Company: [Cortea](https://germanydevjobs.com/companies/cortea)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Workplace: On-site
- Employment type: Full-time
- German: Not required
- Skills: Azure, Google Cloud, Kafka, Kubernetes, LLMs, PostgreSQL, Python, React, Redis, Tailwind CSS
- Not mentioned in the job post: salary, visa sponsorship, relocation, where you can apply from

## Job description

### 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

**No one checks every box. If you ship across frontend, backend, and data and own what you build, let's talk.**

### 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

###

## How to apply

Apply on the job page, https://germanydevjobs.com/jobs/cortea-senior-staff-product-engineer-m-f-x-p85j6t2: its Apply button opens the employer's own application page.

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