Working Student — IT (m/w/d)

Working Student — IT (m/w/d)

Berlin · Hybrid · 20 h/week · ASAP

About us

We are ABSORA – a deep-green tech startup in Berlin whose technologies are rewriting the rules of the game for noise and vibration control. Our HSA3 material isn't just a promise for the future – it's a revolution in lightweight construction, acoustics, and filtration: light, incredibly strong, and acoustically brilliant, as it absorbs airborne sound and vibrations. It's also inexpensive to produce and extremely environmentally friendly. This protects health, the environment, and your peace of mind.

That makes it the ideal material to strengthen and make industry more sustainable worldwide. And that's where you come in.

The role

You will own the technical side of our ERP platform: configuring it, building API integrations between the ERP and external systems (e-commerce, payments, accounting), hardening security and access control, and shipping LLM-powered agents that read company data and surface insights or trigger actions. High autonomy, real ownership, direct collaboration with the founders and a small team.

What you'll do

• Configure, customize and maintain our ERP system and its modules.
• Build and maintain Python integrations between the ERP and external services (e-commerce, payments, accounting tools, Google Workspace).
• Implement web security best practices: OAuth, API key management, access control, secrets handling, data protection.
• Stand up and maintain a knowledge-base.
• Manage Git/GitHub-based deployments, staging environments and code review.

What you bring with you

• Strong working proficiency in Python where you can build production-grade scripts, integrations and modules.
• You have built and consumed APIs in real projects, handled auth, errors, rate limits and pagination.
• Comfortable with branches, pull requests, code review and Git-driven deployments.
• You can write joins and aggregations, debug slow queries, and read an existing schema on SQL.
• Comfortable in a terminal, basic server admin, can read logs and write small shell scripts.
• OAuth, secret management, principle of least privilege, basic threat modelling. You know what not to commit to Git.
• Valid Matriculation certificate is required for the Werkstudent contract under German law.

Languages

• English: C1 — required, non-negotiable.
• German: B2 or higher — strongly preferred (most internal communication is bilingual)

The setup

• 20 hours/week during semester, up to 40 hours/week during semester breaks.
• The position is on site. Hybrid work can be setup on agreement later.
• Compensation: competitive Werkstudent rate, calibrated to experience.
• Start date: as soon as possible.