Product Engineer

OpenSanctions

Visa sponsorship not verified
Salary: not listed by employer
Estimated range: not enough salary data for this role yet.
Permanent residency after about 2 yrs
Citizenship after about 5 yrs
Work language: likely English (posting is in English)

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About the role

OpenSanctions | Product Engineer | Berlin, Germany / REMOTE (CET ±3 preferred) | Freelance / employment OpenSanctions is a small, bootstrapped company building an open source database of sanctioned people and companies, politicians, and other entities of public interest. Journalists use it for investigations; hundreds of businesses use it for compliance screening. I'm looking for a product engineer to own the systems around our commercial product: customer signup and lifecycle management, billing, reporting and analytics, and tools for our support team. You'd work across Python, SQL, and React/Next.js. You'll be empowered to decide what to build, working with the people who use these…

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Location Insights: Berlin

Rent (City)
€1,300 a month
Take-home pay (Country tax)
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Weather (City)
Berlin: summer highs about 78°F / 26°C, winter highs about 39°F / 4°C
Safety (Country)
High peacefulness (Global Peace Index rank 28)

Salary

Salary: not listed by employer

Estimated range: not enough salary data for this role yet.

Work visa routes in Germany

EU Blue Card

Salary at least €50,700 per year. €45,934 per year for IT specialists, other shortage occupations, and graduates within 3 years of their degree.

A job offer or contract in Germany at or above the salary threshold
A recognised university degree (or a foreign degree comparable to a German one), and a job that matches it

Without a degree

IT specialists without a degree: at least 3 years of relevant professional experience at academic level in IT, gained in the last 7 years, with a salary of at least €45,934.20 (the Federal Employment Agency must approve)

Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal Employment Agency)(opens in new tab) · checked 5 October 2026

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With the accelerated skilled worker procedure, the German mission schedules the visa appointment within three weeks, and decides as a rule within three weeks of receiving all documents (after the immigration office’s advance approval). (Make it in Germany: accelerated skilled worker procedure (employer guide)(opens in new tab), checked 6 October 2026)

Work permits issued in 2025

108,091 first permits for work
20,521 EU Blue Cards
12,710 highly skilled worker permits

First permits only, all nationalities. Eurostat (migr_resocc)(opens in new tab), updated 28 September 2026.

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Probation

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