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# Senior Backend Engineer - Shelfview at Scandit

- **Company:** Scandit
- **Location:** Tampere, Finland
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://www.scandit.com/careers/job-description/?gh_jid=8179821

## Job description

Scandit Tampere

Senior Backend Engineer

Scandit gives people superpowers. Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication, or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows. It provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. Join us as we continue to expand, grow, innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.

Our newest product, ShelfView, is a machine-learning-powered platform for retail that gives real-time shelf visibility and helps stores run more efficiently. ShelfView is scaling fast: we are ramping towards the rollout of the largest retail intelligent deployments, processing billions of product-location updates a year. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be part of the team that builds and runs the backend behind ShelfView's product recognition and store-monitoring pipeline.You will help scale automated, ML-driven store monitoring while keeping the platform fast, observable, and secure for a growing list of enterprise retail customers.

If these challenges sound interesting to you, we'd love to hear from you!

## About the role

This role is about solving complex engineering problems at scale and building the backend solutions that power them. You will help design and operate the distributed systems that turn store imagery into real-time, actionable alerts. That includes choosing and building on workflow-orchestration infrastructure for ML pipelines, making infrastructure and GPU-capacity tradeoffs for model serving at scale, and extending our identity and multi-tenancy platform as we bring on larger, more security-conscious customers. You will also help the team see what is happening in production through better observability, and mentor other engineers along the way.

## What you will do

- Bring the platform to the next level: load- and stress-test it against our largest deployments yet, and close the gaps that surface
- Push our infrastructure and GPU capacity strategy further to support larger, more demanding deployments
- Collaborate closely with AI/ML researchers/engineers to put their innovations to production
- Extend and harden our multi-tenancy platform for new customers and regions
- Deepen observability so the team can find and fix production issues even faster
- Design and evolve our service APIs as the platform grows
- Mentor other engineers and help set technical direction as the team scales

Our tech stack

- Python / Django
- Postgres
- Temporal (workflow orchestration)
- PubSub
- GCP / AWS, including GCP Identity Platform and Vertex AI for model serving
- OpenTelemetry, Grafana Tempo / Jaeger
- GitLab

## Who you are

We are looking for an experienced backend engineer who is comfortable owning a problem end to end: evaluating a handful of possible technical approaches, shipping the one you picked, and operating it under real production load. You care about making systems observable and debuggable, not just functional. You have made infrastructure tradeoffs before, deciding what hardware, architecture, or vendor to use, and why, and you can back that decision with data. You enjoy mentoring other engineers and raising the technical bar for the team.

- 5+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer shipping software in the cloud
- Have evaluated and adopted workflow-orchestration or distributed-pipeline tooling (e.g. Temporal, Celery, Airflow, Dagster, or similar) for a production system
- Have hands-on experience with identity/auth systems (SSO, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC) and multi-tenant architectures
- Are comfortable with observability tooling (distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging) and have used it to debug production issues
- Are fluent in multiple languages, Python being your strongest
- Have first-hand experience with databases (relational and document-oriented), service-oriented architectures, cloud data pipelines (stream and batch), Docker, Kubernetes
- Are familiar with automation testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and are comfortable using AI coding tools as part of your day-to-day workflow
- Have broad, T-shaped experience: comfortable across infrastructure, backend, data, and frontend, with real depth in at least one of those areas
- Are experienced with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) for provisioning and scaling cloud infrastructure
- Have operated production systems at scale and bring established best practices from similar systems (workflow orchestration, multi-tenant SaaS, real-time ML pipelines)
- Are willing to go beyond your role, your team, and (sometimes) your comfort zone to make a cross-functional impact on the business
- Are eligible to work in the hiring location

Nice to have:

- Experience serving machine learning models at scale (GPU capacity planning, model-serving infra, cost optimization) in an industry setting

## What we offer

Here are just some of the reasons why people choose to build their careers at Scandit:

- A highly skilled team and a fun environment where you can put your enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies to use
- Hackathons
- Flexible, office, hybrid or home working
- People-first culture
- Global team outings, Micro Adventures
- Festive/end of year all company celebrations
- Your birthday off
- An attractive individual equity plan in a high growth company
- We are certified as a "Great Place to Work" in 7 countries!
- Excellent office infrastructure, optimized for hybrid working in Zurich, Warsaw, Tampere, and London
- Excellent support for remote work across Switzerland, Finland, Poland, UK, Italy and Germany
- Specific benefits related to the location you are joining

At Scandit we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be a safe space for all.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability or length of time spent unemployed.

Imagine the What. Build the How.

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## About Scandit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Scandit provides a Smart Data Capture platform powered by vision AI that enables enterprises to capture and analyze barcode, ID, and label data from any smart device, turning physical-world data into real-time business decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland (Global HQ: Hardturmstrasse 18, 8005 Zurich)
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Three researchers from MIT, ETH Zurich, and IBM Research (individual names not publicly listed on the company site)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise Software / Smart Data Capture / Computer Vision
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises in retail, logistics, healthcare, air travel, and post/parcel sectors
- **Mission or purpose**: "Turn camera input into decision-making" — enabling workers and customers to blend physical and digital worlds with unmatched speed, accuracy, and intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Data Capture SDK & Frameworks**: Software development kits that add barcode, text, or ID scanning to any iOS or Android app in under 5 minutes. Handles 80bn scans annually across low light, damage, distance, and glare conditions. Includes AR guidance and intent detection.
- **Scandit Express (turnkey app)**: Pre-built mobile application for rapid deployment of scanning workflows.
- **Shelf Intelligence & Execution**: AI-powered planogram and price compliance, expiry management & markdowns, and stock detection to boost on-shelf availability to over 95%.
- **Intelligent In-store Picking**: Increases fulfillment capacity by up to 4.6% without additional headcount, optimizing cost per order and service levels using existing labor hours.
- **ID Scanning & Validation**: Fast, accurate, and secure ID scanning and validation processed on-device for maximum privacy. ISO 27001 certified.
- **Scandit Agent Skills**: Brings 15 years of barcode, label, and ID scanning expertise into coding agents for custom integrations and pre-built components.
- **Retail Insights by Vision AI**: Turns visual store data into real-time inventory visibility and prioritized actions, increasing store revenue by up to 2% and cutting waste by up to 40%.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $273M (Series D led by Warburg Pincus).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Warburg Pincus (lead investor). Other investors include GV (Google Ventures), NGP Capital, and others from earlier rounds.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Trusted by over 2,100 customers worldwide.
  - Active on more than 170 million mobile devices.
  - Processes over 50 billion scans per year.
  - Achieved NPS score of +65.
  - Job postings up +66.7% year-over-year (10 active postings as of mid-2025).
  - Offices in 7 countries: Switzerland, UK, USA, Finland, Poland, Japan, and Italy.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Computer Vision Moat**: Proven at 80bn scans a year with ability to read barcodes in extreme conditions (low light, damage, distance, glare) — a 15-year R&D head start.
- **On-Device Processing**: All ID scanning and validation happens on-device (ISO 27001 certified), ensuring maximum privacy and offline capability.
- **Platform Agnostic**: Works on any smart device (smartphones, handhelds, fixed cameras, drones) — no proprietary hardware lock-in.
- **End-to-End Solution**: From SDKs and turnkey apps to shelf intelligence and retail insights, covering both data capture and actionable analytics.
- **Enterprise-Grade Support**: Includes trials, solution design, integration, and customer success support in the standard offering.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Retail Intelligence**: Moving beyond barcode scanning into AI-driven shelf monitoring, planogram compliance, and waste reduction — targeting grocers, convenience stores, pharmacies, and DIY.
- **Supply Chain & Logistics Optimization**: Deepening capabilities in in-store picking and fulfillment to boost capacity without headcount increases.
- **Global Scale**: Growing office footprint (recent additions in Poland, Italy) and customer base (2,100+ customers) across retail, logistics, healthcare, and air travel.
- **Developer Ecosystem**: Launching "Scandit Agent Skills" to embed scanning expertise into coding agents, lowering integration barriers for new customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes innovation, pioneer spirit, team spirit, dedication, getting things done, and having fun. Described as "human, warm, and collaborative."
- **Work Model**: Flexible — "Work at home, at the office or hybrid."
- **Global Team**: Employees across 5 continents with memorable global gatherings (e.g., 2024 global team outing in Croatia).
- **Recognition**: Certified "Great Place to Work" in 7 countries: Switzerland, UK, USA, Spain, Finland, Poland, and Italy.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on big brains having freedom to think, innovation hackathons, and collaboration with brilliant minds. Alumni go to top tech companies (Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple).
- **Perks**: "Share in our success" culture, legendary team outings, and a space to stretch yourself.

## Sources
1. [scandit.com](https://www.scandit.com/)
2. [scandit.com/company](https://www.scandit.com/company/)
3. [scandit.com/careers](https://www.scandit.com/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - Scandit](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scandit)

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