Senior Systems & Integrations Engineer

Location: Berlin (preferred) or Remote in EU
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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.
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The Role

You will own:

• Pipeline scalability
• Integration scalability

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.
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What You Will Own

1. Pipeline Scalability

• Queue architecture
• 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

2. Integration Scalability

• Design and implement a reusable connector framework
• Standardize authentication (OAuth2, API keys, etc.)
• 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.
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What You Will Not Own

• Schema semantics
• Field-level transformation rules
• Dataset correctness decisions
• Frontend UX

Those are owned by separate functions. You own scalable transport and connectors.
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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.
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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
• Clear workload isolation between customers

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.
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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
• Benefits: Standard package (equipment budget, Deutschlandticket, flexible remote setup)

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

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