About the Role

Data Engineers are the backbone of Monq, building the scalable data infrastructure powering our autonomous negotiation agents. You’ll work with AI engineers, product teams, and procurement experts to turn complex contract data, vendor information, and negotiation histories into reliable insights. We are building the data foundation for AI agents to parse deal terms, benchmark conditions, and optimise outcomes in high-stakes enterprise environments.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build Enterprise Contract Data Infrastructure
• Design scalable ingestion pipelines for high-volume contract data, vendor systems, and procurement integrations
• Create advanced parsing for legal/procurement documents and multi-dimensional deal terms
• Build real-time data feeds for negotiation agents and decision dashboards
• Manage Strategic Procurement Data Architecture
• Define and evolve schemas for contract intelligence, vendor benchmarking, and negotiation analytics
• Build comprehensive data catalogues with discoverability and lineage
• Design models supporting optimisation across price, terms, risk, timeline, and relationship factors
• Ensure Enterprise-Grade Data Operations
• Own data quality, latency, completeness, and lineage for mission-critical pipelines
• Champion secure, governed practices for sensitive contract data
• Implement audit trails and compliance for high-stakes negotiations
• Enable AI-Powered Negotiation
• Work with AI, Platform, and Product teams to provision datasets and features for negotiation agents
• Build infrastructure for real-time contract analysis and vendor research automation
• Create pipelines integrating with SAP, Oracle, Coupa, GEP, and enterprise workflows
• Drive Operational Excellence
• Improve efficiency through testing, CI/CD, and cost/performance tuning
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis
• Optimise infrastructure cost while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability

Requirements

Essential Qualifications

• 3+ years building enterprise-scale data pipelines in AWS or Azure
• Expert Python for production ETL
• Strong experience with batch/streaming frameworks (Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams, Beam) and orchestrators (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in contract/legal document processing or complex unstructured data
• Integration experience with enterprise systems (ERP, procurement, BI)
• Experience supporting ML/AI models in production

Technical Requirements

• Strong data modelling and schema design for enterprise datasets
• Advanced API ingestion (REST/gRPC), message queues (SQS, Kafka), SaaS integrations
• Expertise with RDBMS, NoSQL, data lakes, and warehouse architectures
• Deep knowledge of security, encryption, RBAC/ABAC, compliance
• CI/CD for data systems, IaC (Terraform), and enterprise deployment workflows

Essential Skills

• Observability, metrics, logging, tracing, data quality frameworks
• Ability to collaborate with AI, platform, and business teams
• Understanding enterprise security, scalability, audit, and integration needs
• Strong problem-solving for multi-dimensional data challenges

Compensation and Benefits

Competitive Package
Significant equity stake
Bi-annual performance bonuses tied to customer outcomes

Work Environment

Remote-first with quarterly gatherings
Direct collaboration with Fortune 500 procurement teams
Fully-funded annual AI innovation retreat

Career Growth

Visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates
Define the future of AI-powered enterprise negotiations
Mentorship from senior AI and enterprise software leaders

Other Benefits

No HR organisation
Minimum 30 days annual leave + birthday day off
Flexible hours
Temporary work abroad up to 120 days/year (subject to nationality/tax rules)

Our Interview Process

A focused process for senior data engineering talent:

• Screening Call (30 minutes):
  • Review background and motivation
  • Overview of Monq’s data challenges
  • Alignment on goals and expectations
• Online Assessment (45 min)
  • Technical data engineering and cultural fit
• Technical Architecture Interview (60 min)
  • Real-world pipeline design for contract processing
  • System design for enterprise integrations
  • Scalability, security, reliability discussion
• Problem-Solving Interview (45 min)
  • Deep dive into a complex data challenge
• Bar Raiser & On-site Collaboration (half-day)
  • Discussion with co-founder
  • Work with data/AI teams on current pipeline issues
  • Meet procurement/domain experts and enterprise stakeholders

About Monq

Monq is building the first AI platform for strategic procurement negotiation, creating a blue ocean in a $4.2T market overlooked by AI. Our team combines deep AI expertise with enterprise software and procurement experience. Backed by forward-thinking investors and leaders from Revolut and HSBC, we’re positioned to become the category-defining platform for AI-powered procurement.

Every 1% improvement in strategic procurement represents a $42B market impact. We’re not just building software—we’re creating the future of how enterprises negotiate their most critical deals.

Equal Opportunities Statement

Monq is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants receive consideration regardless of protected characteristics. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and believe diversity strengthens our ability to build AI that serves enterprise clients.

Accommodations for Applicants with Disabilities

Monq is dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application or contact us directly at recruitment@monq.io

Important notice for candidates

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• Apply only through official Monq channels. We post roles solely on our own careers page and verified partner job boards such as LinkedIn. We don't use third-party agents or platforms to manage our recruitment, and we'll never contact you about a role you didn't apply for.
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Additional Information for Candidates Based in Poland

Salary

Poland: PLN 15,700 – PLN 40,000 gross monthly
Other locations: Compensation will be discussed during the interview process
Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate's qualifications, skills, and previous experience

The salary range stated in this advertisement (or disclosed during the recruitment process) is provided solely to comply with the pay transparency obligations under the Polish Labour Code, implementing Directive (EU) 2023/970. It is for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer within the meaning of Article 66 of the Polish Civil Code, nor any binding commitment to employ the candidate or to pay a specific amount. The final remuneration will be determined individually on the basis of the candidate's qualifications and experience and the outcome of the recruitment process, and will be set out in the employment contract or other agreement concluded between the parties. The employer reserves the right to adjust the range during recruitment as further information is obtained.

Consent Declaration (Required for Candidates Based in Poland)

If you are based in Poland, please include the signed Consent Declaration below in your CV before submitting your application.

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