API Senior Software Engineer, Xentral
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Business management software
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Business management software
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
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101-200 employees
Company mission
To help small and medium-sized enterprises automate and simplify their day-to-day operations.
Role
Who you are
- You bring 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer on large-scale applications or platforms, with a strong architectural mindset and the ability to guide technical best practices
- You have deep knowledge of REST API design, authentication, security, JSON, OpenAPI, and common API standards
- You are experienced with PHP and modern frameworks like Laravel (or similar languages), and ideally bring knowledge of Go as a plus
- You are skilled at working with and modernizing legacy codebases while ensuring high standards for code quality, reliability, and maintainability
- You thrive as a strong communicator and collaborator, work independently, take ownership, and proactively drive solutions forward (fluent English required; German is a plus)
What the job involves
- As an API & AI Senior Engineer (f/m/d), you'll be a core pillar of our API & AI development team
- You'll drive technical excellence and the innovative use of AI and automation to reach our goal to become Europe leading ERP & Agentic Commerce AI platform
- With your expertise in software development, prompt engineering and process automation, you'll ensure the optimal execution and scalability of our company strategies
- API development: You design, develop and maintain our core RESTful APIs using AI-powered development tools
- AI driven development: You drive strategic initiatives in AI adoption across our teams, mentor our engineers and identify areas where we can improve using AI tools
- Agentic Commerce: You drive initiatives to move Xantral ERP into an Agentic Commerce platform by building APIs that agents can use, implement MCP services and create integrations to platforms and frameworks
- Operational Support: You act as the technical go-to person for the API & AI team, you collaborate closely with our PMs, you ensuring our tech stack is utilized effectively and our codebase is kept maintainable and scalable to achieve our goals
Our take
With upwards of 2000 global companies relying on its services, Xentral is a leading lean enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for small and medium-sized businesses. Essentially, the company takes on the burden of daily repetitive tasks, freeing up time and space for its customers to grow.
Founded in Germany by a formidable husband-wife duo, Xentral has seen strong momentum as many businesses are turning to platforms like Amazon, eBay and Shopify to sell online, with Xentral’s services enabling companies to digitize and automate their back-end processes.
2021 series B funding, led by Tiger Global and Meritech, has been invested in enhancing the product. Capital has also been used to expand the U.K. operation toward a more global ERP market, a timely venture given its forecasted to be a market worth $71.3B by 2030.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$75m
SERIES B
Jan 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- Well equipped for the mission - To make sure you can be on our journey with full power, we will equip you with a new MacBook, related equipment and use modern tools like Slack, GitHub, HubSpot and Asana. You are missing something – we are always open for new suggestions!
- Our secret fuel - There are no passengers on spaceship xentral – we are all crew. Even though we are physically separated, we enjoy our time together in projects, on coffee dates or virtual company parties very much. Relaxed and laid-back, yet focused and highly motivated. At xentral a healthy start-up culture is alive and well
- Even astronauts don’t stop learning - We love to challenge the status quo and that goes for ourselves too. That's why we offer you the opportunity to develop yourself further, whether on professional topics or interdisciplinary ones such as feedback training, communication or work organisation. If you have a specific training in mind, let us know
- Our coding universe - While for most people the universe consists of galaxies, stars and asteroids, our universe consists of PHP, AWS, Laravel, Symfony, Kubernetes, Docker and ArgoCD – just to name a few
- Choose your station - You decide where to launch your work day. Whether you want to work from home or from one of our hubs in Augsburg, Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. Of course we will equip your home base
Company HQ
Bahnhofs-Bismarckviertel, Augsburg, Germany
Leadership
Benedikt Sauter
(Co-CEO, CPO & Co-founder)Previously co-founded and acted as CEO for both WaWision GmbH and embedded projects GmbH.
Claudia Sauter
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded WaWision GmbH and embedded projects GmbH.
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