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title: 'Founding Software Engineer at Cerve Global Ltd'
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# Founding Software Engineer at Cerve Global Ltd

- **Company:** Cerve Global Ltd
- **Location:** Sweden
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-04-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cerve/3397aa91-7c71-4977-94da-19cda8588a33

## Job description

## 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.
- Thriving in Ambiguity: Uncertainty motivates you. You embrace complex challenges that often raise more questions than answers.

You have:

- At least 6 years of production-level experience in owning, building, delivering, and maintaining large distributed systems at scale with API-led companies.
- Strong programming skills in Go and Python.
- Working experience with infrastructures and cloud providers such as GCP and AWS.
- Full proficiency building and managing databases in PostgresSQL, NoSQL and Analytical Databases.
- Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency and parallel processing technologies.
- A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews.
- Experience using AI assisted coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, etc.)
- [+] Experience building agentic platforms

We Offer:

- Salary: Competitive
- Discretionary Bonus: Potential of company wide annual payment
- Flexible Vacation: 25 days, Bank holidays and Special days
- Flexible hours: Choose your working hours around core hours (9:30 – 16:30)
- Stock Option: Become an owner of Cerve with significant wealth creation potential
- Pension: Auto-enrolment into our pension scheme
- Hybrid Workspace: Hybrid working from our R&D Hub in Gothenburg
- Best Tech and Equipment: Macbook and the best equipment you need to excel
- Relocation: Potential relocation package for the right candidate in this role.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and valued. We believe that diversity of thought and experience is essential to our success, and we are particularly interested in candidates who can bring a different perspective to our team, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or career status.

## About Cerve Global Ltd

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Food and beverage supply chain intelligence, AI-powered analytics, and workflow automation.
- **Target customers**: B2B – food and beverage manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and caterers. Works with over 2,000 companies.
- **Mission**: “We democratise data intelligence across the supply chain so that companies of any size can reduce waste, strengthen food security, drive growth and run smarter operations.” [cerve.com](https://cerve.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Cerve Intelligence Platform**: An AI-driven platform that connects data from multiple sources (ERPs, email inboxes, folders, documents) and provides demand forecasting, customer churn prediction, basket optimization, and new account targeting. Users report completing tasks 80% faster on average and seeing a 50% productivity boost. [cerve.com](https://cerve.com/)
- **Data APIs & Agentic AI**: Cerve offers APIs and data access for building applications and agents using standardised, real-time food system data. Partners can co-develop solutions to improve supply chain resilience and sustainability. [se.linkedin.com](https://se.linkedin.com/company/cerve)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $7.8M across four rounds (Pre-Seed $800k in 2019, Seed $515k in 2019, Seed $2M led by Orkla Ventures in 2022, Seed £3.5M/$4.5M led by SuperSeed Ventures in 2024). [se.linkedin.com](https://se.linkedin.com/company/cerve)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Orkla Ventures, SuperSeed Ventures. Also works with environmental organisations on sustainability.
- **Growth Signals**: 15 employees (+22.2% YoY), 4 active job openings, monthly headcount growth of +4.8%. Recent £3.5M seed round in December 2024 covered by Sky News, TechCrunch, and EU-Startups. Claims 85% average cost reduction and 2–3x output increase for users. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/cerve) [se.linkedin.com](https://se.linkedin.com/company/cerve)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for F&B**: Modelled on data from over 1,000 food and beverage companies, the platform understands industry-specific data structures and workflows.
- **Data unification**: Connects fragmented data across systems (ERPs, email, documents) without requiring custom integrations, turning it into connected context.
- **Agentic AI**: Automates complex tasks like demand forecasting, churn prediction, and customer segmentation, enabling commercial and supply chain teams to act faster.
- **Proven impact**: Users report 80% faster task completion, 85% cost reduction, and 50% productivity boost. [cerve.com](https://cerve.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Digitising the global food supply chain**: Expanding the platform to more geographies and customer segments (manufacturers, wholesalers, caterers).
- **Deepening AI capabilities**: Building more agentic, autonomous workflows that reduce manual admin and enable real-time decision-making.
- **Scaling partnerships**: Working with large global companies and environmental organisations to advance sustainability and food security goals.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Most roles (Solutions Engineer, Customer Operations Associate, Founding Software Engineer, Data Engineer) are listed as remote. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cerve)
- **Small, high-impact team**: 15 employees, flat structure, and significant ownership – employees directly shape the product and company direction.
- **Modern tech stack**: Uses microservices, Python, Kubernetes, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Databricks, and more. [se.linkedin.com](https://se.linkedin.com/company/cerve)
- **Mission-driven**: Work on reducing food waste, strengthening food security, and making the supply chain more sustainable.
- **Offices in Sweden, UK, and Serbia**: Hybrid presence with a collaborative environment. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/cerve)

## Sources
1. [cerve.com](https://cerve.com/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cerve)
3. [find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15947597)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/cerve)
5. [se.linkedin.com](https://se.linkedin.com/company/cerve)

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