--- title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at Peec AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-peec-ai-berlin-1b3070vztc1y' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-04' --- # Senior Backend Engineer at Peec AI - **Company:** Peec AI - **Location:** Berlin, Germany - **Compensation:** €100k–€150k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/peec/96f3d53d-7fa5-4e47-8a92-8cb95c925bc3 ## Job description ## ABOUT THE ROLE Peec AI is building the data plane for AI visibility: millions of chats, scrapes, citations, sources, model responses, and customer-facing insights running through a fast-moving backend. This role is for an engineer who wants to own the systems behind that. You will not just add endpoints or close tickets. You will make our scraping, chat-processing, source-ingestion, and analytics infrastructure more reliable, cheaper, faster, and easier for the rest of the team to reason about. The best fit looks like someone who can debug a provider outage in the morning, design a better queueing model before lunch, ship a TypeScript service change in the afternoon, and write the postmortem or follow-up ticket clearly enough that the next engineer immediately knows what to do. We are especially interested in people who have built or operated systems with real constraints: rate limits, flaky third-party APIs, queues, webhooks, retries, distributed locks, data migrations, observability gaps, customer pressure, and cost ceilings. ## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - 5+ years of backend, platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering experience in a production environment. - Deep hands-on TypeScript experience. We run TypeScript services on Bun, and we care about people who can design clean, reliable backend systems rather than only write application code. - Strong understanding of queues, workers, retries, rate limits, idempotency, distributed locks, webhooks, and failure handling. - Experience operating systems under real production pressure: incidents, provider outages, customer escalations, noisy alerts, slow dependencies, and incomplete data. - Comfort with cloud-native infrastructure. Our stack includes GCP, Kubernetes, Cloud Tasks, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, Firestore, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. - Ability to debug across layers: application code, logs, metrics, queues, provider APIs, databases, network behaviour, and deployment state. - Product-minded judgement. You can separate internal detail from customer-safe explanation, and you understand when a “small infra change” has customer, security, or cost implications. - High ownership and low ego. We want people who take responsibility for ambiguous systems, ask sharp questions, and make the team better through clear thinking and kindness. - A bias toward durable fixes. You do not stop at “restart the pod” if the real issue is retry amplification, missing backpressure, an unsafe parser assumption, or a provider limit we do not model. ## TECH STACK - Languages: TypeScript, Python - Runtime/frameworks: Bun, Elysia, Node-compatible services - Cloud/infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Cloud Tasks, Pub/Sub, Firebase/Firestore, Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis, RabbitMQ - Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, structured logging - Product/data domain: LLM chats, AI search, source scraping, citation extraction, provider integrations, customer-facing analytics - AI/model providers: OpenAI, Anthropic/Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode / AI Overview, plus scraping/provider APIs around them ## WHAT WE OFFER - Exciting and challenging work with real impact and ownership at one of Europe’s fastest-growing Series A startups - Regular team events and off-sites - Aggressive equity compensation package - Paid Dinner & Uber home when working late - The most beautiful office space and work environment in Berlin ## About Peec AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Peec AI provides an AI search analytics platform that helps marketing teams monitor, analyze, and optimize their brand’s visibility and sentiment across AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Marius Meiners (CEO), Tobias Siwonia (CTO), Daniel Drabo (CRO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: AI Search Analytics, Marketing Technology (MarTech), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) - **Target customers**: B2B – marketing teams at brands and agencies of all sizes, from SMBs to large enterprises - **Mission or purpose statement**: To make marketing teams successful in the age of AI search by giving them visibility and control over how their brand is represented across AI-powered discovery channels. ## Products & Services - **Peec AI Platform (SaaS)**: A dashboard that allows marketing teams to set up "prompts" (queries relevant to their brand), monitor visibility, position, sentiment, and source influence across major AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini). It provides actionable recommendations (e.g., "join r/CRM subreddit discussions") and integrates with tools like Looker Studio. Plans start at €75/month (25 prompts) and go up to enterprise tiers. - **API**: An API to automate reporting, streamline workflows, and integrate Peec AI data into existing marketing stacks. - **Data & Insights**: A proprietary data pipeline that maps source influence, visibility, and sentiment in real time, powering the platform's recommendations. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Valuation is "above $100 million" as of the November 2025 Series A (per TechCrunch, with the company declining to disclose an exact figure). - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $29M (Seed + Series A). Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) of $4M+ as of November 2025, achieved in just 10 months from launch. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Singular (lead, Series A), 20VC (lead, Seed), Antler, Combination VC, identity.vc, S20. Investors include top-tier European VCs. Customers include Axel Springer, Chanel, n8n, ElevenLabs, TUI, Attio, and DEPT. - **Growth Signals**: 1,300+ brands and agencies onboarded since February 2025; adding 300+ customers per month; 73 employees as of mid-2026 (1,333% YoY growth); 43 active job postings; planning to open a sales office in New York City in Q2 2026; hiring 40+ people in the next six months. ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover & Category Creator**: Peec AI is a pioneer in the emerging "AI search analytics" / GEO category, having raised one of the largest Series A rounds in this space. - **Proprietary Data Pipeline**: The platform is built on a sophisticated, proprietary infrastructure that maps source influence, visibility, and sentiment across AI engines in real time – a complex technical moat that is hard to replicate. - **Actionable Insights**: Unlike simple monitoring tools, Peec AI provides specific, actionable recommendations (e.g., which subreddits to join, which content to create) that directly improve a brand's AI search presence. - **Rapid Traction**: Achieving $4M+ ARR and 1,300+ customers in under a year demonstrates strong product-market fit and a high-growth trajectory. ## Strategic Focus - **Platform Expansion**: Moving beyond analytics to build a full marketing software stack for the AI era, including workflow and automation features. - **Geographic Expansion**: Opening a sales-focused office in New York City to capture the North American market. - **Team Scaling**: Aggressively hiring (40+ roles in the next six months, primarily in Berlin and New York) across engineering, sales, marketing, and research to support growth. - **Product Development**: Continuing to refine the platform’s data pipeline and user experience to maintain simplicity while increasing analytical depth as the AI search landscape evolves. ## Why Work Here - **High Growth & Impact**: The company is in the top 1-2% of startups in terms of growth, offering employees "real ownership" and the chance to shape a new category. - **Great Compensation**: The company emphasizes "great compensation" and benefits as a key pillar of its employee value proposition. - **Team Energy**: Described as having a high-energy, fast-paced, and ambitious culture, typical of a well-funded early-stage startup. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Roles are primarily based in Berlin, with plans for a New York office. The company appears to value in-person collaboration, though specific remote/hybrid policies are not publicly detailed. - **Notable Perks**: Unlimited growth opportunities, a strong emphasis on team energy, and the chance to work with top-tier investors and a high-caliber team. - **Engineering Culture**: The company’s strength lies in its technical infrastructure, making it an attractive place for engineers and data scientists interested in AI, real-time data pipelines, and applied research. ## Sources 1. [Peec AI Website](https://peec.ai/) 2. [Peec AI Careers Page](https://peec.ai/careers) 3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/peec-ai) 4. [TechCrunch: Peec AI raises $21M Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/as-consumers-ditch-google-for-chatgpt-peec-ai-raises-21m-to-help-brands-adapt/) 5. 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