Best of breed sourcing software to optimize strategic sourcing and automate tactical and tail spend. Proudly serving customers such as Caterpillar, J&J, Siemens, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Carlsberg.
Best of breed sourcing software to optimize strategic sourcing and automate tactical and tail spend. Proudly serving customers such as Caterpillar, J&J, Siemens, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Carlsberg.
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Company Overview
Problem Domain
Enterprise procurement and strategic sourcing optimization
Founded
2012
Industry
Software Development
Funding Track Record
Series A- 2020-06-04
USD 18,000,000
Series B- 2022-05-16
USD 24,000,000
Series B included participation from Elephant, Mosaic and Paua
Investor Signal
“Backed by growth-stage VCs including 83North, Elephant, Mosaic and Paua”
Founders
What we do
Join the Team
Staff Engineer
RemoteCork, County Cork, IE
Remote • Cork, County Cork, IE
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 Team as a Staff Engineer. This role is remotely based in Ireland. We are unable to consider applications seeking to work from any other locations at this point in time .
Reporting to our Chief Architect, you will be part of a cross functional team responsible for building and supporting new and existing products and features, and will be setting the technical direction of our products. The successful candidate will join a group of engineers from different backgrounds including Software Dev, Data Science, UI and Product design.
Responsibilities
L ead the design and architecture of robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions for our products, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with business goals.
Champion best practices in software engineering (scalability, security, reliability), ensuring code quality, performance, and maintainability across the organization.
Your profile
Why Us
Here at Keelvar , we are proud to be a remote-first organisation and we offer some great perks including:
C ompetitive salary with a Series B backed, fast growing organisation.
Pension 7.5%
Health Insurance
2 5 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.
T echnology that enables you to perform to your best
Teeming tracks opportunities at over 24,000 AI startups, then works with you to find (and land) the one you'll love.
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Drive innovation through experimentation and rapid prototyping, bringing forward new ideas to improve both product and process.
Own the end-to-end delivery of features and services, from development to production, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving service resilience.
Guide and mentor engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Influence the technical roadmap, working closely with leadership to define and prioritize long-term strategic initiatives.
Serve as a go-to technical expert across multiple domains, helping solve the toughest technical challenges the team faces.
Continuously evaluate and improve engineering processes and practices, ensuring they evolve to meet the growing and changing demands of the product and the business.
Understand and deliver on our customer’s needs and goals.
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience building and delivering large-scale, high-performance distributed systems. Experience in building SaaS solutions is a strong bonus.
Proven track record of driving technical direction and delivering high-quality software at scale in a collaborative, agile environment.
Advanced experience with CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and modern development practices. Strong advocate for continuous improvement in engineering processes.
Expert Python knowledge with a passion for clean, testable, and maintainable code. Familiarity with other programming languages is a plus.
Expertise in designing distributed, fault-tolerant services using both RESTful and message-driven APIs.
Experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS is preferred), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-driven systems.
Strong understanding of system performance, scalability, and reliability, with experience in performance tuning and optimizing complex distributed applications.
You’re not just an executor – you’re a visionary who enjoys thinking deeply about long-term technical strategy, and you have a track record of successfully leading and executing complex projects.
An outstanding mentor and leader who thrives on elevating the performance of the entire team. You enjoy coaching engineers, encouraging a growth mindset, and leading by example.
You have a strong sense of ownership, initiative, and responsibility. You take pride in seeing projects through from ideation to production.
