About Us
Keelvar was founded in Europe's largest AI research lab by a team of computer scientists and engineers specialising in AI, optimization and game theory applied to strategic sourcing. Keelvar is an award-winning, category leading, global sourcing optimization and autonomous sourcing vendor, optimising over $200bn+ in spend annually. Our mission is to help procurement teams globally to scale sourcing excellence. Keelvar
Role Overview
Keelvar has an exciting opportunity to join our Engineering & Product Team as a Senior Backend Software Engineer. This role is remotely based in Ireland (ideally in Cork).
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.
Responsibilities
* Work in a cross functional development team analysing product feature requests and designing solutions.
* Build andmaintainbackend services with a strong focus on performance, maintainability, and production-readiness.
* 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 inusersneeds
* Collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to ensure vision is delivered.
Your profile
* Strong proficiency and at least 7 years of experience in software development, ideally developing SaaS solutions.
* Experience in Python and its ecosystem.
* 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.
* 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.
Why Us
Here at Keelvar, we are proud to be a remote-first organisation and we offer some great perks including:
* Competitive salary with a Series B backed, fast growing organisation.
* Pension 7.5%
* Health Insurance
* 25 days PTO increasing to 26 after 3 years and increasing to 27 after 5 years.Plus a day off for your birthday.
* Flexible working hours with a positive approach to work - life balance.
* An inclusive, collaborative, innovative culture.
* Generous leave offerings including 2 CSR days.
* Technology that enables you to perform to your best