Software Engineer - Partner Engineering

Certa is the AI-first third-party operating system. Enterprises, from the Fortune 500 to fast-growing startups, use our no-code platform to onboard, assess, and monitor their vendors, suppliers, and partners across risk, compliance, and ESG. We have processed over 10 million entities for 100,000+ users across 120+ countries, and are backed by Fin Capital, Vertex Ventures, and Point72 Ventures.

About The Role

Our Partner Engineering team works at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and Customer teams - making the sum greater than the whole. It's a cross-functional role with exposure to both software engineering and product management.

You'll partner with product managers, solution architects, project managers, and clients to understand complex requirements, design solutions, and build systems and integrations end to end. The work is challenging, high-impact, and full of learning.

As we scale with rapid growth, we're looking for go-getter engineers who love solving problems and building products.

What You'll Do

• Build integration frameworks: Design and implement scalable API integration frameworks (legacy, GraphQL, or REST) that connect customer systems with our services, including reusable frameworks and components.
• Translate customer needs: Work with customers to understand their use cases and translate them into effective integration solutions.
• Document & specify: Create detailed technical specifications and integration documentation.
• Optimize: Optimize integrations for reliability, performance, and ease of maintenance.

What You'll Need

• Integration & SaaS experience: Strong background in enterprise system integrations and building scalable SaaS products and integration frameworks.
• Backend expertise: Expert knowledge of Python, Django, DRF, Celery, and PostgreSQL, with experience in webhooks, event processing, and asynchronous architectures.
• Cloud & distributed systems: AWS and cloud infrastructure expertise (including the AWS Serverless Framework), strong system design and architecture capabilities, and experience testing and debugging distributed systems.
• AI integrations: Ability to understand and work with AI service integrations.
• Communication: Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for various audiences.
• Preferred: Experience integrating AI/ML services into production applications and knowledge of common AI integration patterns and best practices, plus a background working with enterprise clients and startup experience.

Compensation And Benefits

• Compensation: Top of market salary + bonuses and equity
• Time off: 49 days paid time off
• Benefits: PTO, full benefits, retirement and wellness plans.
• Growth: Professional development support, remote workspace setup bonus.
• Team building: Annual company offsites in exciting locations around the world

Location

• Certa is a remote-first company and we hire globally. We believe strongly in each team member working from the location that they choose. Should Certers wish to meet and work in person they have 3 lively office locations they can travel to:
• London
• San Francisco
• Jaipur
  

The perfect place for Certers to collaborate, co-work and have face to face meetings.

Why Certa

• Category leadership. Certa was named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Risk Management Tools - recognition that we're defining the category, not following it.
• Industry recognition. We've been honored across the analyst and awards landscape, including Top Tech and Customer Value distinctions in The Hackett Group's 2026 Risk Management SolutionMap, the ProcureTech100 (Advanced AI and Risk Management categories), and Best Overall eProcurement Software in the FinTech Breakthrough Awards.
• A top place to work. Certa was named one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in the US. We're a fast-growing company where you'll wear many hats, ship quickly, and shape decisions that matter.
• Real scale with strong backing. We've processed over 10 million entities for 100,000+ users across 120+ countries. We're well-funded by leading investors including Fin Capital, Vertex Ventures, and Point72 Ventures, on the back of an oversubscribed Series B, headed towards Series C.

We're excited to meet you!