Backend Engineer (XML Lead)

Salary DKK 40,000 - DKK 50,000
Equity To be negotiated

Work at Devin

At Devin, you’ll join a funded, product-focused startup entering its Go-to-Market stage with real customers, revenue, and a unique position inside the Apple enterprise ecosystem. Our platform is being developed in close collaboration with Claris (Apple’s subsidiary), giving you exposure to one of the most influential tech companies in the world—through engineering conversations, product reviews, and meetings with executives.

We work on hard technical problems with a clear purpose: building foundational DevOps technology for a massive global user base that has never had modern tools. The systems you build here won’t be “internal tools” — they’re shaping a category that is likely to become a part of Apple’s enterprise platform strategy.


Our office is a proper startup environment:

• brand new hardware and equipment

• modern, spacious office in a central location

• a tight-knit team working side-by-side

• Friday bars, team dinners, and spontaneous celebrations

• opportunities to participate in conferences around Europe and the US

• trips to Apple campuses in Texas and Silicon Valley for partner meetings and technical alignment


This is a rare chance to join early, take ownership, and help build a technology that may soon become part of the backbone of a globally deployed Apple ecosystem.


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 underlying technology 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 parsing, modeling, interpreting, and comparing complex nested XML structures and creating the logic that powers Git-like workflows for a platform that has never had them.


The Role

As our XML Component Engineer, you will contribute to core modules responsible for:

  • Parsing and analyzing the full set of XML catalogs embedded within proprietary application files

  • Modeling and navigating deeply nested hierarchical data structures

  • Detecting structural, attribute-level, and semantic changes across versions

  • Designing fast, accurate comparison and change-detection logic

  • Building foundational components used by our automated change-application and merge workflows (without naming them explicitly)

  • Improving performance and enabling near-real-time diff responses

  • Collaborating closely with our founder to explore new approaches for interpreting undocumented formats


This is foundational work: the systems you build will become the basis for version control, collaboration, and automation across thousands of enterprise environments.


Who You Are

  • You enjoy parsing problems, compilers, interpreters, or tree-structured data

  • You have experience in Rust or Python (Rust preferred, but Python is enough to start)

  • You think deeply about precision, correctness, and performance

  • You enjoy reverse-engineering, structural analysis, or algorithm design

  • You want a role where you’ll grow quickly, take responsibility, and ship real technology—not just features

  • You’re excited by the idea of contributing to technology that may integrate directly into a future Apple ecosystem


What We Offer

  • True ownership of a core engineering area

  • Modern office with best-in-class hardware

  • Competitive salary & influence from day one

  • Conferences + team trips in Europe & the US

  • Direct collaboration with Apple/Claris engineers

  • A meaningful role in building category-defining tech

  • A chance to become one of the foundational engineers in a company on a strong upward trajectory

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 (CEO, VP Product, VP Engineering). 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 currently moving into a new fantastic office space — photos are coming!

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