Founding Software Engineer

About the role

About Cerve

At Cerve, our mission is to build the data foundation the €10 trillion food and beverage supply chain has been missing. We operate the supply chain intelligence infrastructure for F&B. With this foundation in place, the industry gains the visibility, automation and shared insight needed to expand margins, tackle waste, food security and food borne illness at scale.

About the role

As founding Software Engineer at Cerve, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, maintaining and securing our infrastructure and products to drive connectivity in the food industry.

In collaboration with the Engineering and Product team, you will design and build our core infrastructure, distributed platform and API products. This role involves coding, setting development standards, and ensuring solutions are reliable, performant, scalable and secured.

What you’ll do:

As our Software Engineer, you will be collaborating with the engineering and product teams. You will have a significant impact on our infrastructure and products, designing and delivering performant and scalable solutions while maintaining high coding standards:

- System Design & Development: Design, develop and maintain scalable and high-performance distribution systems in production.

- Hands-on Coding & Architecture: Take an active role in coding and architectural decisions, ensuring high technical standards and driving the success of a high-performing development team.

- Backend Services & Integrations: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability, security, and scalability, ensuring smooth integration with other systems.

- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other key stakeholders to define, design, and deliver new features that align with both product and customer needs.

- Code Quality & Best Practices: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to best practices and contributing to a high-quality codebase.

- Observability & Monitoring: Develop and implement observability and monitoring solutions to ensure exceptional reliability and quality across products and integrations.

You are:

- Entrepreneurial: Thriving in a fast-paced startup environment. You're proactive, self-motivated, and have a can-do attitude that gets projects done.

- Systemic Thinker: You can see the bigger picture while keeping an eye on the details, ensuring every element works in harmony.

- Autonomous: You are comfortable in small teams where you are expected to take full ownership of your projects, driving them from concept to completion.

- Collaborative: You’re eager to grow alongside us, learning from both success and setbacks as we build the platform together.

- Thirst for Knowledge: You’re passionate about your craft, always seeking new knowledge while sharing your best practices with the team.