Senior Product Engineer, Keelvar

Growth Team

Salary not provided

AWS

Python

Ruby

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Senior and Expert level

Barcelona

Berlin

SaaS solution for enterprise procurement teams

Open for applications

SaaS solution for enterprise procurement teams

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLogisticsSupply ChainSaaSAutomation

Open for applications

Salary not provided

AWS

Python

Ruby

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Senior and Expert level

Barcelona

Berlin

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLogisticsSupply ChainSaaSAutomation

Company mission

To help strategic sourcing teams be significantly more effective. They are focused on a high standard of customer service and success. They strive to be agile, responsive, and supportive in all aspects of their business.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience building and delivering large-scale, high-performance distributed systems
Experience in growth engineering, product engineering, marketplace platforms, or PLG-focused teams is a plus
Experience in Python or Ruby on Rails and its ecosystem. Frontend skills are a strong advantage
Comfortable with DevOps practices, cloud environments (ideally AWS), and monitoring tools, you own your code in production
Deep understanding of performance, reliability, data integrity, and scalable system design
Pragmatic, hypothesis-driven, and comfortable making tradeoffs to move fast while preserving technical quality
Enjoys collaborating with non-engineering partners and incorporating customer and business context into technical decisions
High ownership mindset with a bias toward action and measurable impact

What the job involves

We’re hiring a Senior Product Engineer in our newly established Growth Team, a cross-functional group focused on accelerating Product-Led Growth. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can build fast, think product-first, and thrive in an experimental environment
You’ll work closely with engineering, marketing and product, driving growth-focused initiatives directly inside the product experience. Expect rapid iteration, close collaboration, and ownership of experiments end-to-end
Enable fast experimentation that supports evidence guided decisions. Implement user-facing experiments when needed, ensuring high-quality executions that validate hypotheses quickly
Work directly with product and engineering teams and services across the full platform to design and build scalable product growth features
Contribute to and influence architecture
Own the full lifecycle of growth initiatives: ideation, technical design, implementation, rollout, instrumentation, and iteration based on results
Work with product and marketing team members to shape experiments, ensuring technical feasibility and efficient execution
Maintain strong engineering standards across performance, reliability, and code quality while operating in a fast-moving environment
Improve observability, analytics, and experimentation frameworks to speed up learning cycles
Share knowledge across the team and contribute to a culture of rapid learning and continuous improvement

Our take

With the increasing need to automate procurement processes, the materialisation of e-procurement technology is anticipated to open up new opportunities for market growth. The requirement to prevent the duplication of records is also anticipated to boost the procurement software market's development in the coming years.

Keelvar is a global provider of AI-driven sourcing optimisation and automation solutions for enterprise procurement teams. They are a leader in the market and optimise over $100bn+ dollars in spend annually for large and mid-sized clients. Their customers include Microsoft, Tesco PLC, Royal FrieslandCampina and Mauser Packaging Solutions.

2022 investment from SquareOne and Mosaic Ventures is supporting Keelvar’s expansion into Europe and the US, research and development, and the hiring of more talent.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

23% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

May 2022

$24m

SERIES B

Jun 2020

$18m

SERIES A

Total funding: $42.9m

Company benefits

Competitive salary in a fast-growing start-up
Great annual leave and family leave offerings
Medical Insurance allowance
401 k plan
Flexible working hours with a true focus on work life balance. Plus your birthday off on us!
Great culture of collaboration and innovation

Company HQ

Centre, Cork, Ireland

Leadership

Alan Holland

(Founder & CEO)

PhD in Computer Science, specialising in Algorithmic Mechanism Design, Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence. Founded Keelvar in 2012.

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