We are Procure Ai, a market leader in bringing artificial intelligence and automation to the procurement process with the goal to unlock massive savings for our clients by having a high-value procurement function. We are a remote team of experienced tech and business professionals, based in Germany, UK and France. While we enjoy collaborating remotely (and so should you), we come together for regular team offsites in Europe. We are now recruiting for an experienced Backend Engineer (m/f/d) with a strong data focus for further growth.

You will join a team of experienced senior engineers who are committed to creating intelligent software & developing code that helps make procurement more efficient. You will work on developing features for our existing software platform, for new products and creating code that integrates with third-party platforms. Our tech stack includes (but is not limited to) Python, Scala, Javascript, GO, AWS/Azure, React, Node.js.

Please note: since this is an individual contributor role, it is important you are aware of & comfortable with this setting in a remote work environment.

Impact & Ownership

• Develop key components of our intelligent data platform for procurement in close collaboration with the team.
• Build scalable, severless data ingestion pipelines from structured and unstructured data.
• Combine data engineering with backend development to transform ingested data into our procurement data graph.
• Shape the core of our solution and work closely with our customers.

Requirements

• You have a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience in data engineering (at least 3 years).
• You are advanced one ore more of the following programming languages: Python, Scala, JavaScript.
• You have experience in building automated data ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g. Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Databricks), quality assessment and data streams (e.g. AWS Kinesis).
• You are experienced with different database and data warehouse concepts and have a good understanding of data modelling approaches.
• You are a friendly, team-oriented problem solver who enjoys working in a role with lots of impact.
• You are a self-starter who is never satisfied with the status quo; you are always thinking of how to improve existing processes and you are open to new ideas presented by others.
• You have keen judgment, make sound independent decisions, and know how to listen to others, prioritise issues and when to escalate matters.
• English is a must, German language skills are a can.

Extra credits:

• You have experience with graph databases or graph implementations in NoSQL setups.
• You have experience to assess data quality with ML based algorithms.
• You have hands-on experience with cloud development on AWS.

Benefits

• A remote work environment where you can decide to work anywhere in UTC - UTC time zone plus 3 hours - allowing you maximum flexibility.
• Join regular team offsites within Europe.
• 30 days of vacation.
• Up to 2 months work from anywhere (timezone-friendly though!).
• Salary package: Depending on your experience we will make you a competitive offer including ESOPs.

Procure Ai is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.