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.
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.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a cutting edge company, disrupting its industry. Currently optimising over $100bn+ in procurement spend for the world's largest companies, Keelvar is more than just a software company. Keelvar is an evolution of how companies work.
Our technology is unparalleled in its space. We are on a fast-paced journey to herald a new era of SaaS 3.0. Using AI, Machine Learning, and Game Theory to build intelligent systems that optimize and automate the procurement sourcing process, we save our customers millions of dollars every year, and help their suppliers find the best customers for them. Many of the world’s top blue chip companies use Keelvar to aid negotiations; they set high standards that we relish achieving because it helps us be the best at what we do.
We believe we can change the world and have fun doing it. We are a hard-working team who love what we do. We believe that a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and risk-taking is the key to finding breakthrough approaches - and we don’t settle for conventional approaches.
We strive for excellence, challenging ourselves and each other, with independent thinking, a lot of focus, and plenty of collaboration. In our eyes, the bigger the challenge, the bigger the reward. We’re not content with just equipping users with good tools; we want to help our customers achieve success and excellence, and sometimes this requires lateral or unconventional thinking. We want you to share your knowledge readily and learn every day. We like to ask questions, and answer questions when we can. We invite you to a workplace that is inclusive and celebrates diversity. We support everyone in being themselves, feeling empowered and inspired to make a difference.
If you are passionate about how technology is changing the world of work and want to work with a great team, this is the role for you.