Software Engineer (Backend / Full Stack)

Technology is one of the biggest items in an enterprise CFO’s budget, second only to headcount. Traditional procurement is one of the most frustrating, friction-filled bottlenecks in the modern business.

Vertice is the world’s first Intelligent Procurement Platform eliminating this chaos. By combining agentic workflows, deep AI insights, and a global network of expert negotiators, we empower enterprises to buy smarter and scale at pace.

The market response has been unprecedented:

• $75bn+ in spend processed across our platform.

• 20% savings consistently delivered to our customers.

• 70% reduction in standard enterprise procurement cycles.

• 13X revenue growth achieved over the last two years alone.

Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Roy and Eldar Tuvey, who have successfully scaled and exited two category-defining platforms and created $600M+ in enterprise value, we are backed by over $100M in Series C funding from tier 1 global investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 83North, Lakestar. We have also been recognized as the #2 fastest-growing company on the Sunday Times' Tech 100 and the fastest-growing startup in the UK and Ireland by the FT’s Sifted (#4 in Europe).

With headquarters in London and hubs in New York, Brno, Sydney, and Johannesburg, we are fundamentally reshaping the global B2B economy.

How we work at Vertice Engineering

Collaboration and transparency are at the core of how we work. We keep it simple - no unnecessary management layers, just direct connections between business and engineering. Hierarchies don’t get in the way, instead - we keep things flat, flexible and focused on what works. This is how we do it:

• Autonomous Teams - Our small teams (made up of Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, AI/ML and QA) operate without traditional tech leads or managers. They decide how they work - whether it’s stand-ups, prioritization or project management methods. Teams are assigned areas/goals/problems where they can make the biggest impact, yet they don’t own any part of the code, so they can basically work on any part of the product.

• People Managers - You won’t be left figuring things out alone. Our People Managers with psychology backgrounds focus on your growth, well-being and career support while keeping Vertice’s flat, collaborative culture strong. They’re here to encourage open communication, support conflict resolution and help ensure you thrive.

• Chapters - Specialists still need to stay aligned. Chapters bring together people with similar expertise - like Frontend, Test Automation or Release - to share best practices, standards, common sense and they keep the knowledge flowing across teams - directly!

Your Role at Vertice

You will help us on Backend. If you can and if you want, also on Front End. Our solution is serverless so you will be working on microservices deployed in AWS, you will be thinking about how to make them talk to each other, how to orchestrate them, how to ... you know, right?

Requirements

• You want to be surrounded by people who are as passionate as you about programming and designing services

• You enjoy learning new technologies in this area and finding how they can help us to be more efficient

• You like to turn kitchen discussions over the coffee into features before the coffee gets cold

• You love to have discussions with your colleagues, you love to challenge and be challenged

As part of our team, you’ll have the chance to learn and/or work with

• React & TS for a front-end development

• Purely serverless infrastructure and architecture

• AWS Lambda microservices written mostly in Python

• Various AWS services including AWS Dynamo, Glue, StepFunctions, Athena, Timestream …

• REST and GraphQL APIs

• Automation in Python and Behave for Integration tests and Python + Playwright for UI tests

• … and many others. We follow trends and take an open-minded, pragmatic approach to finding new solutions to problems.

Why join Vertice?

Be a part of a fast-growing, innovative startup that is changing the way businesses buy and sell SaaS. Work with passionate and talented teams that value your contributions and expertise. Be part of a culture that promotes a growth mindset, transparency, collaboration, understanding and diversity.

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Final things to note

Vertice is an equal opportunities employer, although you must be legally able to work in the specified region of the job. Any personal data you provide will be processed in accordance with Vertice's privacy policy and applicable data protection law.

We use AI-assisted tools to help us review and assess applications more efficiently. These tools support our Talent team but do not make hiring decisions autonomously. You have the right to contest any AI-assisted decision, and exercise your data subject rights by contacting us; please follow the instructions in our privacy policy.

We like to deal directly with our candidates so no agencies please!

If you aren’t sure this job applies to you, feel free to send your CV to [email protected], and we’ll be happy to take a look and see if you could be a good fit anywhere else in our business!