diff --git a/tehriehlbudget-backend/Dockerfile b/tehriehlbudget-backend/Dockerfile
index 167e045..bea005e 100644
--- a/tehriehlbudget-backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/tehriehlbudget-backend/Dockerfile
@@ -1,48 +1,51 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.7
 ARG NODE_VERSION=20
 
-FROM node:${NODE_VERSION}-alpine AS deps
+FROM node:${NODE_VERSION}-alpine AS builder
 RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat openssl
 RUN corepack enable && corepack prepare pnpm@9 --activate
 WORKDIR /repo
-# Force a hoisted (flat) node_modules layout for the image. The default pnpm
-# isolated layout puts dependencies inside node_modules/.pnpm/<pkg>@<ver>/
-# which makes `prisma generate`'s output (node_modules/.prisma/client/) live
-# in a path that doesn't survive a multi-stage COPY. Hoisted gives us
-# predictable /repo/node_modules/{@prisma,.prisma}/ paths. Local dev is
-# unaffected — this .npmrc only exists inside the build context.
+# Hoisted layout so `prisma generate` writes to predictable paths
+# (/repo/node_modules/{@prisma,.prisma}/) instead of into .pnpm/<hash>/.
+# Local dev keeps the isolated layout — this .npmrc only exists in the
+# build context.
 RUN echo "node-linker=hoisted" > /repo/.npmrc
+
 COPY pnpm-workspace.yaml pnpm-lock.yaml package.json ./
-COPY tehriehlbudget-backend/package.json  tehriehlbudget-backend/
+COPY tehriehlbudget-backend/  tehriehlbudget-backend/
 COPY tehriehlbudget-frontend/package.json tehriehlbudget-frontend/
+
 RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pnpm-store,target=/root/.local/share/pnpm/store \
     pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --filter tehriehlbudget-backend...
 
-FROM deps AS build
-WORKDIR /repo
-COPY tehriehlbudget-backend/ tehriehlbudget-backend/
 RUN pnpm --filter tehriehlbudget-backend exec prisma generate
 RUN pnpm --filter tehriehlbudget-backend run build
 
-FROM deps AS prod-deps
-WORKDIR /repo
-RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pnpm-store,target=/root/.local/share/pnpm/store \
-    pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --prod --filter tehriehlbudget-backend...
+# pnpm deploy produces a self-contained prod-only bundle for the backend:
+# only the dependencies the runtime actually needs, no frontend tooling,
+# no devDeps. Drops vite, vitest, react, the whole NestJS CLI etc. that
+# were leaking into the runtime via the workspace's hoisted node_modules.
+RUN pnpm --filter tehriehlbudget-backend --prod deploy /deploy
+
+# Overlay the generated Prisma client. pnpm deploy copies the @prisma/client
+# package as-is, but the co-located .prisma/client/ output directory isn't
+# a package so it isn't always carried along. Copy it explicitly to be safe.
+RUN cp -r /repo/node_modules/.prisma /deploy/node_modules/.prisma
 
 FROM node:${NODE_VERSION}-alpine AS runtime
-RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat openssl tini
+RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat openssl tini \
+    # Remove the npm CLI that ships with node:alpine. We use pnpm via
+    # corepack at build time and `node dist/main` at runtime — npm is
+    # never invoked. Its bundled deps (cross-spawn, glob, minimatch,
+    # tar) are the source of 11 of the 12 HIGH/CRITICAL CVEs Trivy flags
+    # in the image, and they're all in code paths we never execute.
+ && rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm \
+           /usr/local/bin/npm \
+           /usr/local/bin/npx
 WORKDIR /app
 RUN addgroup -S nodeapp && adduser -S nodeapp -G nodeapp
 ENV NODE_ENV=production
-COPY --from=build     --chown=nodeapp:nodeapp /repo/tehriehlbudget-backend/dist          ./dist
-COPY --from=build     --chown=nodeapp:nodeapp /repo/tehriehlbudget-backend/prisma        ./prisma
-COPY --from=build     --chown=nodeapp:nodeapp /repo/tehriehlbudget-backend/package.json  ./package.json
-# With hoisted linker, all deps live at the workspace-root node_modules.
-COPY --from=prod-deps --chown=nodeapp:nodeapp /repo/node_modules  ./node_modules
-# Overlay the generated Prisma client from the build stage. The prod-deps
-# stage doesn't have the `prisma` CLI (devDep) so it can't generate.
-COPY --from=build     --chown=nodeapp:nodeapp /repo/node_modules/.prisma  ./node_modules/.prisma
-COPY --from=build     --chown=nodeapp:nodeapp /repo/node_modules/@prisma  ./node_modules/@prisma
+COPY --from=builder --chown=nodeapp:nodeapp /deploy/ ./
 USER nodeapp
 EXPOSE 3000
 ENTRYPOINT ["/sbin/tini", "--"]