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 is powered by unique artificial intelligence, designed by our category experts, to deliver significant savings and operational improvements for global enterprises.
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.
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
