Senior Backend Engineer (Agent Lead)

Salary DKK 45,000 - DKK 60,000
Equity To be negotiated

About Devin

Devin is building the first real DevOps platform for Claris FileMaker, a longstanding Apple-associated ecosystem used across 70,000+ companies. Because FileMaker stores entire applications inside a proprietary binary file format (.fmp12), no proper version control has ever existed.

We’re changing that.

Our engineering team is developing the deeply technical infrastructure needed to extract, structure, compare, and interpret the hidden XML catalogs inside these files—making real version control, automation, and collaboration possible for the first time.

You don’t need any FileMaker experience. This work is about building a distributed system of system-level agents that run across on-prem environments and cloud infrastructures — orchestrating everything from diff generation to safe automated deployments. This agent layer is mission-critical: it powers all of Devin’s core workflows and is on track to run across thousands of servers and cloud environments inside an expanding Apple enterprise ecosystem.

We’re a funded startup moving out of R&D and into our Go-to-Market phase. We already have paying customers, growing demand, and a close technical relationship with Claris (Apple). The systems you'll build here have a clear path toward integration inside future Apple-aligned cloud environments.

At Devin, you won’t be one of dozens of engineers — you’ll be one of the first. We’re a small, high-trust, founder-led team where ownership is real, shipping matters, and you directly influence product, architecture, and culture. Startup life means high autonomy, big responsibility, and the occasional late night — balanced by an energized, social environment with Friday bars, team events, conference trips in the EU and US, as well as occasional visits and meetings with Apple executives at Apple campuses in Texas and Sillicon Valley.

If you want to architect foundational infrastructure, work closely with the founder, and help shape a technology that may become part of Apple’s enterprise platform strategy, this is the role for you.


The Role

As Agent Lead, you will take full ownership of designing, building, and evolving the agent architecture that runs Devin 2.0.


Your responsibilities will include:

  • Implementing robust, headless system agents for Linux and Windows Server

  • Building OS-level services (systemd units, Windows Services) and ensuring reliability, concurrency, and failover

  • Architecting the distributed communication layer between Devin agents and Claris CLIs and APIs

  • Handling low-level file operations, permissions, process orchestration, and task scheduling

  • Designing agent behavior that works seamlessly across both on-premise systems and modern cloud-hosted environments

  • Creating CI pipelines for multi-OS, multi-architecture agent builds

  • Ensuring security, stability, concurrency, and high performance across diverse environments

  • Working closely with our founder on long-term architecture decisions that align with Apple ecosystem integrations


Who You Are

  • You have strong experience building system-level services (Python and/or similar languages)

  • You understand OS internals: permissions, process lifecycle, concurrency, file systems

  • You’ve built or maintained distributed agents, daemons, or background services

  • You know how to design reliable, multi-platform software running on both Linux and Windows

  • You have experience with cloud-oriented service patterns and distributed task orchestration

  • You enjoy designing systems that must be stable, predictable, and secure in real-world enterprise environments

  • You’re excited by the opportunity to build technology intended to integrate into an Apple cloud ecosystem

  • You want to be part of a small, highly focused team, especially in the early stage where everyone’s work directly shapes the product

  • You enjoy working in-person with colleagues — pair debugging, whiteboard sessions, team strategy discussions

  • You’re comfortable with macOS and you like being inside the Apple developer environment

  • You appreciate the startup lifestyle: high autonomy, big responsibility, and the occasional long day when we’re pushing toward major milestones

  • You want a culture where hard work is rewarded with a strong team spirit: Friday bars, dinners, trips, and a genuinely social office atmosphere

  • You want to be a founding engineer — someone who helps set culture, standards, architecture, and long-term direction


What We Offer

  • Ownership of one of Devin’s most important technical components

  • A close, engineering-driven culture with strong focus on impact

  • Competitive salary with real decision-making influence

  • A modern, spacious, fully equipped startup office

  • Conferences trips in Europe and the US

  • Occasional meetings at Apple campuses in Texas and Sillicon Valley

  • A role with long-term strategic relevance to Apple’s enterprise platform direction

For more information or questions please contact us at david@devin.fm

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Near public transit
Near public transit

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Pension plan
Pension plan

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Equity package
Equity package

New tech gear
New tech gear

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Working at
Devin

At Devin ApS we're building the first real DevOps platform for Claris FileMaker, Apple’s long-running low-code ecosystem used inside thousands of enterprises—including Apple itself, Coca-Cola, Samsung, the US Navy, banks, airports, hospitals, and countless internal teams that need custom workflows. And yes: FileMaker is a bit of a strange, legacy-feeling technology from a modern engineering point of view. It stores entire applications—schema, logic, UI, permissions—inside a proprietary binary file format that cannot be versioned or inspected. No Git. No diffs. No real CI/CD. Most teams still build features directly in production because they simply have no choice. That’s exactly why Devin exists. We’re taking a platform with huge real-world usage but decades of technical debt, and building the tooling it has never had: true version control, merge, diff, test automation, safe deployments, and server-side orchestration. Not by patching workflows around the edges, but by breaking open the internal structure of the .fmp12 format and building the equivalent of Git, GitHub Actions, and Release Management for a low-code ecosystem that has been stuck in 2005. Our work includes: • Building a high-performance XML analysis layer capable of reading and comparing the hidden catalogs inside .fmp12 files • Generating and applying patch files through Claris’ CLI to achieve true merge and conflict resolution • Designing a distributed backend (Devin Server 2.0) that runs on-prem and cloud, powering version control, test automation, deployments, and data migrations • Creating a modern DevOps workflow on top of a platform that was never designed for one This is deeply technical, state-of-the-art work involving parsing, schema design, distributed systems, performance engineering, and creating entirely new abstractions that will become the standard for 25,000+ FileMaker developers worldwide. You do not need any FileMaker experience—zero, genuinely. Think of FileMaker as a domain with a massive impact footprint but almost no modern tooling. Our founder, David, is one of the world’s leading experts on the platform and maintains close relationships with Claris’ engineering leadership. You will work in a modern stack, while he covers everything domain-specific. We’ve proven commercial demand with Devin 1.0, secured angel funding, and are now expanding the team to build the breakthrough technologies behind Devin 2.0. You’ll join as part of the early technical core: a small, ambitious team working on hard engineering problems with real user impact, strong support from Claris, and direct visibility inside a niche Apple ecosystem. It’s a rare chance to build something genuinely new—almost “Git for a platform that never had Git”—and define a category in a space that is both weird and surprisingly important. We’re soon moving into a new modern office space — therefore no office photos yet 😊

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