AI engineer in procurement

Chain IQ Group; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great Place to Work-certified

International environment

Job summary

Chain IQ Group is building an AI-native procurement platform where intelligent applications and autonomous workflows operate as a single system. We seek backend engineers to design and develop scalable services, orchestrate AI agents, and ensure secure, observable systems within an international environment.

You will collaborate with Product Engineering, ML, and Platform teams to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities, emphasizing automation, reusable components, and robust fault recovery.

Qualifications

• Experience developing backend applications using modern software engineering practices.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Ability to build scalable cloud-native applications and microservices.
• Track record in integrating enterprise applications through REST APIs, messaging platforms, and event-based architectures.
• Software design skills with an emphasis on maintainability, resilience, and reusable architecture.
• Expertise in designing systems that manage workflow state, long-running processes, retries, and fault recovery.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, API security, and secure software development.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services for intelligent procurement applications and autonomous workflows.
• Build agent orchestration services coordinating AI agents, business logic, APIs, and approvals.
• Develop scalable APIs and service interfaces for web apps, automation, and AI agents.
• Design workflow execution patterns for long-running processes, retries, state management, approvals, and recovery.
• Integrate enterprise platforms including procurement systems, ERP, identity providers, and external data sources.
• Develop reusable services for retrieval, context assembly, tool execution, memory management, and business process automation.
• Ensure secure authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement across services.
• Make backend services observable through logging, metrics, tracing, and telemetry.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, ML, Platform Eng, Data Eng, and Product Management to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities.
• Improve engineering productivity through automation and AI-assisted development.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

APIs

Asynchronous processing

Event-driven architectures

Cloud-native

Microservices

REST APIs

Security

Observability

Job description

Описание:

At Chain IQ, your ideas move fast. Chain IQ is a global AI-driven Procurement Service Partner, headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, with operations across main centers and 16 offices worldwide. We provide tailored, end-to-end procurement solutions that enable transformation, drive scalability, and deliver substantial reductions in our clients' indirect spend. Our culture is built on innovation, entrepreneurship, ownership, and impact. Here, your voice matters - bold thinking is encouraged, and action follows ambition.

Role purpose

We are building an AI-native procurement platform where intelligent applications, autonomous agents, and business workflows operate as a single system.

Задачи:

• Design and develop backend services supporting intelligent procurement applications and autonomous workflows.
• Build agent orchestration services that coordinate AI agents, business logic, enterprise APIs, and human approvals.
• Develop scalable APIs and service interfaces used by web applications, automation workflows, and AI agents.
• Design workflow execution patterns supporting long-running processes, retries, state management, approvals, and recovery.
• Integrate enterprise platforms including procurement systems, ERP platforms, identity providers, collaboration tools, and external data sources.
• Develop reusable services for retrieval, context assembly, tool execution, memory management, and business process automation.
• Implement secure authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement across platform services.
• Ensure backend services are observable through logging, metrics, tracing, and operational telemetry.
• Collaborate closely with Product Engineering, Machine Learning, Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, and Product Management to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities.
• Continuously improve engineering productivity through automation, reusable components, AI-assisted development, and contributions to the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (ASDLC).

Требования:

• Experience developing backend applications using modern software engineering practices.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Ability to buil scalable cloud-native applications and microservices.
• Track record in integrating enterprise applications through REST APIs, messaging platforms, and event-based architectures.
• Software design skills with an emphasis on maintainability, resilience, and reusable architecture.
• Expertise in designing systems that manage workflow state, long-running processes, retries, and fault recovery.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, API security, and secure software development.
• Comfortable working alongside AI engineers, product managers, platform engineers, and domain specialists in cross-functional teams.
• Будет плюсом: Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery is highly desirable

Условия:

We offer a dynamic and international environment where high performance meets real purpose. We're proud to be Great Place to Work-certified and even prouder of the people who make that possible. Let's shape the future of procurement - together.