Senior Backend Engineer, Keelvar

AI Platform & LLMs

Salary not provided

AWS

Python

REST API

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Germany, Ireland

SaaS solution for enterprise procurement teams

Be an early applicant

SaaS solution for enterprise procurement teams

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLogisticsSupply ChainSaaSAutomation

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

AWS

Python

REST API

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Germany, Ireland

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

Strong proficiency and at least 5 years of experience in software development, ideally developing SaaS solutions
Experience in Python and its ecosystem, especially in the context of backend development and ML systems
Experience of working with CI/CD processes and in an agile, product led environment
Experience designing distributed services which can communicate in a fault-tolerant manner using both RESTful and event-driven APIs
Proven experience integrating LLMs into production services (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, or custom fine-tuned models)
Comfortable with DevOps practices, cloud environments (ideally AWS), and monitoring tools, you own your code in production
Product mindset: you think in terms of value to users, not just technical challenges, and you're willing to experiment to find what works
You are a deep thinker, you like to innovate, you like to solve problems creatively and quickly, and are passionate about technology and people
You thrive in an environment of mutual respect, openness and collaboration. You enjoy getting things done at a quick pace

What the job involves

Reporting to one of our Engineering Managers, you will be part of a critical group responsible for supporting and building new and existing features with a cross functional team
The successful candidate will join a group of engineers from different backgrounds including Software Dev, Data Science, UI and Product design
Work in a cross functional development team analysing product feature requests and designing solutions
Build and maintain backend services with a strong focus on performance, maintainability, and production-readiness
Integrate AI capabilities into our products by deploying LLM services, orchestrating ML pipelines, and supporting end-to-end model lifecycle in production
Take a hands-on approach to shipping high-quality code incrementally — we value learning through iteration over aiming for perfection upfront
Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions to ensure technical excellence and knowledge sharing
Work closely with the Product team to shape features that are valuable, feasible, and grounded in users needs
Collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to ensure vision is delivered
Assist and mentor junior team members

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 optimization and automation solutions for enterprise procurement teams. They are a leader in the market and optimize 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 will support Keelvar’s expansion plans in 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 (4.6)

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

(CEO)

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

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