Backend & AI Engineer

Scalera; United States; Remote; USD 78,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Scalera is seeking a product-focused engineer who works closely with customers to shape what we build. You will write backend services in Go and Python to transform tenders, catalogs and purchase orders into reliable data.

You’ll ship quickly, validate with customers, and iterate based on usage and feedback. The role emphasizes working directly with customers, owning end-to-end features from concept to production, and leveraging AI to improve the platform.

Responsibilities

• Spend real time with customers and understand why they do it.
• Shape what to build by turning feedback into a clear problem, scope and plan.
• Own how a given priority gets solved.
• Design and build backend services in Go and Python that turn messy tenders, catalogs and purchase orders into data customers can rely on.
• Ship, then check by getting it in front of customers and iterating.

Job description

Описание

This role is open only to candidates living in the EU or EEA. We can't consider applications from other locations.

Задачи

You'll be part product manager, part engineer. You'll spend real time with customers and help shape what we build. Sometimes you'll spot the next problem yourself, and sometimes we'll hand you a clear priority to run with. Spend real time with customers. Join calls and site visits, sit with the people who do the work, and understand why they do it the way they do. You'll know their problems firsthand, not from a ticket. Shape what to build. Turn what you hear into a clear problem, a scope and a plan, and push back when the obvious request isn't the real need. When we bring you a priority, you'll own how it gets solved. Build it. Design and build backend services in Go and Python that turn messy tenders, catalogs and purchase orders into data customers can rely on. Ship, then check. Get it in front of customers fast, watch how they actually use it, and iterate. Own it in production. When something breaks at a customer, it's yours to understand and fix. Build with AI. Use AI heavily in how you work, and design systems that agents can use as well as people. There's a part of the product people now think of as yours, and you're the one deciding what happens to it next You've spotted a problem nobody asked you to solve, made the case for it, and shipped a first version You've shipped features from both sources: priorities we set and ideas from your own customer conversations At least once, you've talked us out of building something customers didn't really need You've left a part of the platform simpler than you found it You've taken something from zero to one: a company, a product line, or a side project with paying users You've built and run backend systems in production that other people depend on. We care more about your judgment than your language; you're strong in Go or Python and happy to work in both You're solid on data modeling, API design and messy real-world data You'd rather talk to a customer than wait for a spec You're comfortable with ambiguity. You can make progress while the problem is still half-defined, which at a startup it usually is You want a large scope of responsibility and are happy to own things well beyond your job title Rapidly changing requirements don't throw you. When customers or priorities shift, you adapt and keep going You enjoy direct customer contact and want to be on customer calls You make things simpler over time, not more clever You write clearly in English. German is a plus, not a requirement You probably won't enjoy it if You just want to code and go home You don't like talking to customers, whether on calls or on the occasional site visit Ambiguity and chaos bother you You want a well-defined backlog handed to you Your main goal is managing people soon. Here, scope grows with what you own, not with headcount Our stack Go and Python (FastAPI), PostgreSQL, GCP, and LLMs throughout the document pipeline. You don't need to know all of it on day one.

Требования

The hardest part of a startup usually isn't the code. It's finding customers who really need what you build and getting them to change how they work. At Scalera, that part is done: manufacturers, suppliers and contractors across Switzerland, Austria and Germany already run their tenders through us every day. What we need now are people who can take the next unsolved problem and turn it into a product customers can't do without. If you've founded a company (whether it worked out or not), been the first engineer somewhere, or built something people paid for, this role was written for you.

Условия

Scalera is an ETH Zurich spin-off building AI for the €200B+ European construction industry. Large manufacturers and suppliers still run their most document-heavy processes by hand, from reading 300-page tenders to retyping purchase orders into their ERP. We automate them one by one. Our product matching already handles 1,400 tender positions in 16 minutes at 98% precision, work that used to take a sales rep most of a day. Remote within the EU or EEA Small team, no bureaucracy. You'll work directly with the CEO, CTO, VP Engineering and Customer Success Competitive compensation

Как мы нанимаем

Screening call (30 min) with our VP Engineering. It's two-way: ask us anything, including the hard questions. Technical deep-dive call: walk us through something you built from scratch, the decisions you made and what went wrong. Meet Scalera Day: join us remotely to work on a real problem with real (anonymized) construction documents, and meet the team. Offer: if it's a fit on both sides, we'll move quickly to an offer.