Founding Software Engineer
About the job
- At least 6 years of production-level experience owning, building, delivering, and maintaining large distributed systems at scale with API-led companies.
- Strong programming skills in Go and Python.
- Working experience with infrastructure and cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.
- Full proficiency building and managing databases in PostgreSQL, NoSQL, and analytical databases.
- Deep understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
- Thorough understanding of engineering best practices, including appropriate testing paradigms and effective peer code reviews.
- Experience using artificial intelligence-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance distribution systems in production.
- Take an active role in coding and architectural decisions, ensuring high technical standards and driving the success of a high-performing development team.
- Build and maintain backend services focused on performance, reliability, security, and scalability, ensuring smooth integration with other systems.
- Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define, design, and deliver features aligned with product and customer needs.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while following best practices and contributing to a high-quality codebase.
- Develop and implement observability and monitoring solutions to ensure reliability and quality across products and integrations.
- Experience building agentic platforms.
About the company
Cerve builds a digital infrastructure for the food and beverage supply chain in the UK and Nordic markets. It connects manufacturers, wholesalers, caterers, and retailers through a platform that improves communication, collaboration, and data sharing to cut costs and waste. The core of its product is a robust API that lets vendors integrate their services with Cerve’s platform, enabling seamless data flows and coordinated operations. The platform supports omnichannel management and is tailored to each client with bespoke solutions, revenue coming from subscriptions, implementation, and professional services. What sets Cerve apart is its emphasis on integration and collaboration through API-driven connectivity, a large network of partners (over 1,700), and customized, end-to-end services rather than one-size-fits-all software. Its goal is to reduce food waste and make the food and beverage supply chain more sustainable and efficient.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$6M
Headquarters
Jönköpings kommun, Sweden
Founded
2019
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Parfetts expects Cerve live in October 2026 across supplier-data operations.
- Cerve says 2,000 UK and European customers already use its platform.
- The company raised £3.5M from SuperSeed, Zenith, Ponderosa, and First Thirty.
What critics are saying
- Parfetts remains the only fresh public customer win, leaving concentration risk.
- Cerve's £3.5M seed funding limits runway against SAP, EDI, and procurement suites.
- If Parfetts stalls in October 2026, Cerve's flagship proof point collapses.
What makes Cerve unique
- Cerve connects emails, files, and systems into one supplier-data view.
- Its agentic-AI workflow keeps suppliers on existing channels, avoiding portal fatigue.
- Parfetts chose Cerve for pricing, promotions, terms, and product-performance intelligence.
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Benefits
Performance Bonus
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Flexible Work Hours
Stock Options
401(k) Retirement Plan
Hybrid Work Options
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
10%1 year growth
15%2 year growth
22%Parfetts introduces new AI system with Cerve. 17 August 2026 Strengthening supplier data with new move at Parfetts. WHOLESALER Parfetts has partnered up with Cerve to introduce new AI technology across its supplier data and strengthen its service across its depots. As part of a multi-year partnership between the two, Cerve will bring together information from across Parfetts' data including emails, files and other existing systems to give its trading team one clear view of supplier pricing, promotions, terms and product performance. Cheryl Hope, trading director at Parfetts, said: "Its supplier relationships are central to the strength of its offer, but the volume and variety of commercial information involved can make it difficult to identify and act on every opportunity. "Cerve will give our team clearer, more consistent insight without creating additional administration for suppliers. This will support better-informed data-led conversations, faster decisions and stronger joint business plans." The new investment will help to bring this information into one easy-to-access location for Parfetts workers that can then be turned into actionable insights that staff will be able to capitalise on. This comes as the employee-owned wholesaler has set a target to hit £1 billion in turnover. The new AI system will collate the supplier information into one place following on from it arriving to the wholesaler from across emails, spreadsheets and documents across a range of formats. Cerve's tech will help reduce the time-consuming work of the Parfetts' trading team examining all of this to create a more clear picture. Additionally, suppliers will not need to log in to a new portal, learn another system or complete additional forms and can continue to work through the existing channels that they are already familiar with. The new system is currently being implemented across Parfetts' tech and is expected to go live in October of this year. Dan Mazig, founder and chief executive at Cerve, said: "Parfetts' scale, growth ambition and appetite for innovation make it an ideal partner for demonstrating how agentic AI can enable better decision-making and closer collaboration in food and beverage. "The Parfetts leadership team is exceptional at spotting where the gaps are and turning them into a competitive advantage. With this foundation, Parfetts can deploy agents across the business and operate faster, with more control and visibility."
London-based Cerve, a provider of infrastructure and API solutions, announced on Thursday that it has secured £3.5M (approximately €4.2M) in a seed funding round led by B2B SaaS specialist VC, SuperSeed, with participation from Zenith, Ponderosa, and The First Thirty.
British infrastructure and API provider Cerve has raised €4.2 million in seed funding to advance its mission of digitising the global food supply chain.
Cerve, a London-based provider of infrastructure and API solutions for the global food system, raised £3.5M in seed funding. The round was led by SuperSeed, with participation from Zenith, Ponderosa, and The First Thirty. The funds will be used to expand commercially in the UK, Europe, and North America, and to enhance R&D capabilities by hiring more engineering, product, and technical support teams.
As we found during the pandemic, food and beverage distribution is critical, but most food wholesalers’ sales remain manually operated. Post-covid, food wholesalers are fast digitizing their operations, but many still rely on legacy backend systems. Addressing this, Cerve, a Sweden-based food-tech startup, has raised a $2 million seed round for its infrastructure platform that []