Founding Systems/Backend Engineer

InCycling GmbH; Berlin; Vor Ort; Vertraulich; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An innovative technology company in Berlin seeks a founding-level engineer to lead the development of a middleware platform integrating SAP with AI-driven matching services. Candidates should have over 5 years of backend engineering experience, including API design and ERP integration. This role offers significant decision-making power in a greenfield project with impactful sustainability goals, competitive compensation, and the possibility to shape the engineering culture.

Leistungen

Equity participation

Full autonomy in engineering choices

Opportunity to build foundational technologies

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in Backend / Systems / Platform Engineering with hands-on coding.
• Deep understanding of API design and microservice architecture.
• Proven experience with ERP integration, mandatory SAP knowledge.

Aufgaben

• Architect and implement a cloud-native integration platform.
• Develop APIs and data pipelines connecting InCycling AI to SAP.
• Ensure system security, data integrity, and performance.

Kenntnisse

Backend / Systems / Platform Engineering

API design

Microservice architecture

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Event-driven systems

Asynchronous processing

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP BTP

Jobbeschreibung

About InCycling

Each year, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries destroy more than €30 billion worth of usable materials. Not because they're unsafe, but because the systems that manage them weren't built for circularity. InCycling changes that.

We're building a cloud-native middleware that connects directly to enterprise ERPs, such as SAP S/4HANA via the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Integration Suite, and automatically matches surplus materials with verified traders and buyers.

Our platform enables AI-driven circularity: detecting surplus, understanding material quality, matching it to compatible downstream use cases, and helping companies prove measurable reductions in CO₂ emissions and industrial waste.

Why Now

InCycling was founded by experienced industry executives, each with over 20 years of leadership experience in biotech and pharma. We've lived the operational complexity of large industrial systems from the inside and understand the barriers that keep circularity from scaling.

Based in Berlin and part of the AI Nation Accelerator, we're already working hands-on with our first industrial partner and have access to real ERP data.

Joining InCycling means becoming a founding member of a high-performing team with a strong industry network that knows how to execute, open doors, and navigate regulated industries. It's a chance to build something foundational from day one, combining technological innovation, business excellence and tangible ecological impact.

Your Role

This is a founding-level individual contributor engineering role with a clear path to technical leadership and team-building responsibilities as the company scales. You'll grow from hands-on IC to leading the engineering functions as the organisation scales.

You’ll build the digital backbone that makes our intelligence run. Where the AI team defines what to match, you define how it flows, scales, is secure and stays resilient.

This is a greenfield project - there are no legacy constraints. You’ll make the foundational architecture and infrastructure choices. SAP integration via BTP/Integration Suite is a requirement - our clients use these systems - but how you build around it is yours to define.

You’ll define how technology, sustainability and enterprise systems come together to realize circularity in the chemical industry as operational reality at scale.

In Your First 6–12 Months

• Build the first production-ready middleware backbone for ERP-connected surplus detection and matching.
• Establish core observability: logging, metrics, tracing and incident response basics.
• Deliver the initial SAP-linked data pipelines and event-driven workflows.
• Integrate and operate the first generation of AI agents and matching services in production.

Tasks

What You’ll Work On

Core Platform Architecture

• Architect and implement our cloud-native integration platform, built for ERP interoperability, live data streaming and secure automation.
• Develop APIs and data pipelines that connect InCycling ai to SAP S/4HANA and adjacent systems via SAP BTP / Integration Suite.

Middleware Engineering

• Design and operate the transaction and workflow engine: surplus listing ingestion, validation, matching execution and traceable confirmations.
• Implement asynchronous processing and an event-driven architecture for scalable throughput across regions and partners.
• Build resilience mechanisms such as graceful degradation, intelligent retries and circuit breakers for unstable external systems.

AI Integration & Automation

• Work closely with the Head of AI to deploy matching models, agentic workflows and NLP pipelines into production.
• Create the runtime environment for intelligent agents to interact safely with ERP and business logic layers.
• Build monitoring and orchestration tools that ensure reliability, explainability and controlled rollouts (canary deployments, safe rollback) of autonomous workflows.

Quality, Security & Compliance

• Implement ISO 27001/SOC2-level security, data integrity and audit mechanisms from day one.

Founding Impact

• Make architectural and product decisions that define the technical DNA of InCycling.
• Contribute directly to roadmap definition, technology selection and engineering culture.
• Mentor future hires and help structure a high-impact, mission-driven tech team.
• Act as the owner of platform health: uptime, performance, data consistency and security.

Requirements

• 5+ years in Backend / Systems / Platform Engineering, with hands‑on coding experience.
• Deep understanding of API design, microservice architecture, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Proven experience with ERP or enterprise integration (SAP or similar complex B2B environments). SAP integration is mandatory for this role.
• Strong sense for system reliability, data consistency and information security.
• Experience with event-driven systems and asynchronous processing.
• Pragmatic, product-oriented mindset - you build things that work and scale.
• Based in Berlin or willing to relocate.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with SAP BTP, SAP S/4HANA integration or other large ERP landscapes.
• Background in compliance-heavy or industrial environments.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), observability tooling and security best practices.

Benefits

Compensation

• Full-time founding engineer position with VSOP participation (4-year vesting schedule).
• Salary and equity details will be discussed during the interview process based on experience and mutual fit.
• Ownership in the value you help create, structured for founding-level engineers.

Why Join Us

• Build from the ground up: your architecture becomes the foundation for a new industrial category.
• Real traction: industrial partner, live ERP data, and AI Nation Accelerator backing.
• Decision-making power: full autonomy in engineering choices and platform design.
• Mission that matters: create technology that directly reduces waste and CO₂ emissions.

Send a short note and your CV and share a short example of a system or workflow you have built that integrated to external systems and scaled intelligently and reliably - and what you would build first at InCycling.