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

- **Company:** Cortea AI
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cortea/ed1e5c71-e45d-4a38-b850-cefe21e42273

## 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

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## About Cortea AI

## Company Overview
- **One‑liner**: Cortea builds purpose‑built AI agents that help professional audit firms review work, surface inconsistencies, and produce traceable, defensible outputs while keeping human judgment in control.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised €12M / $3.4M)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany (with offices in France and the Netherlands)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Valentin Neumann (CEO, former auditor at KPMG and early‑stage employee at N26) & Philipp Hövelmann (CPO, former CTO at audibene)

## Core Business
- **Industries**: Audit automation, financial technology, enterprise AI
- **Target customers**: B2B – professional audit firms (financial, IT, internal audit, and advisory practices)
- **Mission**: Provide high‑quality, transparent AI so auditors can review work more easily and focus on professional judgment – ultimately changing how trust is created in the global economy.

## Products & Services
- **AI Agents for Audit**: A suite of agents grounded in ISA, IFRS, HGB, IDW, and other audit standards. Key capabilities:
  - **Evidence Testing**: Automates manual testing, evidence review, and sample checks with full traceability.
  - **Financial Data Validation**: Validates figures against source documents and builds an audit trail ready for sign‑off.
  - **Disclosure & Compliance Checklists**: Runs automated completeness checks against IFRS, HGB, local GAAP, and IDW disclosure requirements.
  - **Risk Analysis & Audit Planning**: Identifies risk areas earlier and builds defensible audit plans aligned with ISA 315.
  - **Audit Team Collaboration**: Assigns tasks, tracks progress, and keeps milestones on schedule.
  - **File Requests**: Tracks requests, submissions, and engagement files to prevent gaps.
- **Platform Type**: SaaS – fully web‑based, uses a “white‑box” approach so every AI decision provides a verifiable logic path.
- **Security & Compliance**: Designed to meet ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and professional secrecy obligations; no client data is used to train models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding **€12M / $3.4M** (Seed round, April 2025)
- **Notable Investors**:
  - Lead: **Cherry Ventures**
  - Co‑participants: **Dawn Capital**, **Mosaic Ventures**, **Discovery Ventures**
  - Notable angels: Larry Bradley (former Global Head of Audit, KPMG), Mehdi Ghissassi (Director Product, DeepMind), Jens Rassloff (Chairman Parloa), and others.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+63.6% YoY** to 12 employees (2024→2025).
  - **8 open positions** as of mid‑2025 (Senior Auditor, Chief of Staff, Fullstack Engineer, AI Product Manager, Founding Product Engineer, AI Audit Engineer, Data Engineer, Software Engineer).
  - Active in multiple geographies (Germany, France, Netherlands).

## Competitive Advantages
- **White‑Box AI**: Unlike black‑box models, Cortea’s agents provide a transparent, verifiable logic path – critical for regulated audits.
- **Domain‑Deep Team**: Founders and advisors include former KPMG auditors, BCG partners, and DeepMind PMs; methodology is built into the product from day one.
- **Methodology‑First**: Every agent speaks the language of ISA, IFRS, IDW, and local standards – results are professionally defensible.
- **Enterprise‑Grade Security**: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and strict professional secrecy – no client data ever used for training.
- **AI‑Native Culture**: The company itself is built to operate like an AI‑first team – small, fast, shipping weekly, not quarterly.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepen Audit‑AI Integration**: Continue expanding agent capabilities (evidence testing, disclosure checklists, risk planning) to cover the full audit lifecycle.
- **Scale Go‑to‑Market**: Use the fresh seed funding to build sales and customer success, especially in DACH, France, and the Netherlands.
- **Maintain Quality & Trust**: Stay “methodology first” and keep human judgment central – the auditor reviews, approves, and signs every conclusion.
- **Attract Top Talent**: Hiring aggressively for engineering, product management, and audit‑specialist roles to accelerate product development.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Builders, not managers” – bias for action, ship this week, not next quarter. Small team (12 people), high ownership, direct feedback, low ego.
- **Remote / Hybrid / Office**: Roles are advertised as **on‑site in Berlin** (e.g., Marketing, Engineering). However, the company already has distributed presence (France, Netherlands), so some flexibility may be possible – confirm during application.
- **Notable Perks / Engineering Culture**:
  - Everyone uses AI to multiply their own output – an “AI‑native” company, not just an AI product.
  - Deep work environment: “We love going deep” – they look for people who have gone unusually deep on a problem, regardless of domain.
  - High‑performance + warmth: Ambitious but not arrogant, human at heart.
  - Build with rigor and care – the work directly shapes how trust is created in the global economy.

## Sources
1. [Cortea Careers Page](https://cortea.ai/careers)
2. [Cortea Company Page](https://www.cortea.ai/company)
3. [Cortea Homepage](https://cortea.ai/)
4. [Cortea LinkedIn](https://de.linkedin.com/company/cortea-ai)
5. [Cortea Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cortea)

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