Arkestro's Predictive Procurement Platform applies AI, game theory, and behavioral science to enterprise negotiations. It moves teams away from reactive supplier bidding toward data-driven offers that reduce friction and help both buyers and suppliers reach better outcomes faster.

Arkestro helps procurement teams influence more enterprise spend and uncover savings that traditional sourcing approaches often leave behind by applying predictive intelligence to how sourcing events are designed and executed.

We’re a hyper-growth company looking for people who take ownership and are comfortable working through complexity. This is a tremendous opportunity if you want to do meaningful work and help shape how large enterprises run procurement… Arkestro is a place where you can have a big impact. See Arkestro in action at arkestro.com.

About This Role

We're looking for a backend engineer with customer-facing experience to pioneer our Forward Deployed Engineering function. You'll build integrations between our Rails application and Fortune 500 procurement systems, while also contributing to core product development when not engaged with customers. This person will own end-to-end technical implementations, architect custom integrations, and transform how the world's largest enterprises approach procurement through Arkestro's predictive technology.

This is a founding role in a new function at Arkestro. You'll define how we scale technical deployments to 50+ Fortune 500 customers, build the playbooks future FDEs will use, directly influence product strategy based on what you see in the field, and establish yourself as the technical partner for enterprise procurement transformation.

Responsibilities

Own customer deployments end-to-end: Lead technical implementations from architecture design through production, serving as technical advisor and managing cross-functional teams to deliver on time
Build integrations at scale: Design and implement robust integrations between enterprise ERP systems and Arkestro's platform, handling complex procurement workflows and business logic
Deliver customer-specific features: Rapidly prototype and ship functionality that addresses unique enterprise requirements while building reusable patterns
Pioneer our deployment methodology: Create the playbooks, tools, and frameworks that will scale our technical deployments from 5 to 50+ Fortune 500 customers
Drive technical relationships: Serve as the primary technical point of contact, translating between business and technical stakeholders

Technologies and tools we use:

Backend Systems: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis
Data Platform: Snowflake, dbt, Prefect, Python
Frontend: React, TypeScript
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
Monitoring & Operations: GitHub, DataDog, Jira, Confluence, Sentry, PagerDuty, Slack

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years in customer-facing technical roles (consulting, solutions engineering, or technical architecture)
3+ years integrating enterprise systems via APIs, REST, SOAP, and other protocols
5+ years building production backend services with Ruby on Rails
Strong understanding of SQL databases and ORMs (especially ActiveRecord)
Experience with enterprise ERP/procurement systems (SAP Ariba, Coupa, Jaggaer, GEP, etc.)
Excellent communication skills - able to translate between technical and business stakeholders
Track record of successful customer implementations
Comfort with ambiguity and rapidly changing requirements
Strong project management skills with ability to juggle multiple customer implementations
Willing to travel 25-35% during peak implementation periods

Bonus Qualifications

Experience building production data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows
Experience with Python for scripting and automation
Experience with procurement or supply chain domains
Cloud platform experience (AWS preferred) including serverless architectures
Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
Knowledge of dimensional modeling and data warehouse design patterns

Pay Range

$170,000—$210,000 USD

Arkestro is committed to providing our employees with a benefits package designed to give you the flexibility you need to ensure a healthy life/work balance. Arkestro offers our employees great benefits and perks, including, but not limited to:

Competitive salary and startup equity
Medical, Dental, Vision insurance premiums covered up to 100% (employee only)
401K discretionary matching
Unlimited PTO
A remote-first team with regular opportunities to get together in person for team building, design sprints, and customer visits
Annual budget of $1,000 for learning and professional development
Diverse, inclusive, highly collaborative, and vibrant culture

Arkestro is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

Disclaimer

Please note this job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Arkestro reserves the right to change duties, responsibilities and activities at any time with or without notice.

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