Senior Systems & Integrations Engineer

Location: Berlin (preferred) or Remote in EU

Overview

About Talonic

Talonic builds enterprise-grade systems that turn messy, heterogeneous documents into structured datasets ready for ERP, CRM, and procurement systems.

We are an early-stage startup working with enterprise clients on a high growth trajectory. Now we need to scale our processing backbone and industrialize integrations.

For that, we are not hiring a feature engineer. We are hiring the owner of our scalable transport and connector layer.

The Role

You will own:

You will not define schema semantics or extraction logic.

You will ensure that data moves reliably, observably, and at scale.

This role sits between dataset reliability and platform.

What You Will Own

• Worker orchestration and autoscaling
• Load balancing and workload isolation per customer
• Idempotency, retry semantics, and backpressure control
• Throughput optimization for high-volume customers (millions of docs/year)
• Transport-layer observability and failure surfacing
• Cost-efficient scaling under enterprise load

Integration Scalability

• Design and implement a reusable connector framework
• Build production-grade ERP/CRM connectors (Dynamics, Salesforce, others)
• Ensure contract conformity and payload validation
• Implement integration-level monitoring and error handling
• Make new integrations repeatable, not bespoke

Key invariant:

New integrations are assembled, not reinvented.

What You Will Not Own

• Field-level transformation rules
• Frontend UX

Those are owned by separate functions. You own scalable transport and connectors.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years backend/systems engineering experience
• Strong Node.js or Python
• Deep experience building production-grade third-party integrations
• Experience with distributed systems and failure modes
• Queue-based architectures and async processing
• Cloud-native systems (AWS preferred)
• Strong understanding of idempotency and reliability patterns

You think in invariants and failure domains, not features.

Success Metrics (6–12 Months)

• Integrations shipped with deterministic failure visibility
• At least 3 integrations built using a reusable connector pattern
• No silent transport-layer failures in production
• Pipeline scales cleanly under enterprise throughput

Team & structure

• You are a senior individual contributor
• You work closely with:
  • CTO (delivery pressure, system constraints)
  • Dataset Reliability Owner (owns semantic correctness)
  • Platform Owner (owns backend platform behavior)
• You are not a PM
• You are not expected to manage people, but can optionally evolve into that role

This role exists to collapse platform complexity and improve delivery reliability.

Hiring philosophy

We optimize for:

• Ownership over breadth
• Engineers who think in invariants and failure domains
• Individuals who have the resilience it takes to build a great company

False positives are extremely costly for us.

Compensation

• Base salary: €90,000 - €100,000 gross per year, depending on experience and demonstrated ownership
• Equity: Meaningful equity ownership in Talonic, subject to role fit and long-term commitment

If you’ve built serious integration infrastructure under real production pressure and care about reliability over hype — we should talk.

See what others say about Talonic

CEOat warp13

"I like how you deliver reliably, highly dedicated and at an impressive pace. Your technology is exciting."

CEO of DSR Consulting

"Talonic gives me what I want from AI. Automate the dull stuff so my team can spend more time on creating value."

"Talonic has turned data-driven growth from a buzzword into reality. It’s completely transformed how we manage, structure and leverage our data now."

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CEOat HTMS

"Engineers appreciate their data in neatly organized boxes. Fantastic that Talonic made that happen for us."

"Talonic saves tons of hours of manual work on documents so that we can focus on the things that matter. Love it!"

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Founder&Managing Director

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"Working with Talonic has been a treat. Their extremely capable team and clear, humane approach set them apart in the AI market. I\'m thrilled to see this Berlin-based solution growing, and I foresee great success for them globally."

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