Business Systems Engineer

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

We are Aiven—a cloud technology startup launched in 2016. We turn best open source technologies into managed cloud services that take the infrastructure worries away from our customers. Our products are used daily by hundreds of customers worldwide to power their next-gen event streaming and analytics applications with more joining every single day. Backed by Europe's leading investors, we’re looking for top talent to join us in our HQ in Helsinki and our new offices Boston, Berlin and Sydney.


We are looking for a business systems engineer combining technical expertise with a knack for business processes. You’ll be at ease working on defining and iterating over business processes including billing, revenue recognition, CRM automation and turning those processes into Python and SQL code and third-party integrations. The majority of Aiven customers use our self-service dashboard and APIs to not only provision new data services, but also for tracking their spend and defining the way they wish to be billed.  To make sure we’re able to serve our customers across a wide array of regions and verticals we have implemented a proprietary suite of tools that  integrates with various third party providers including Hubspot, Intercom and Stripe. As a Business Systems Engineer you will work full time improving these tools and processes. In this role you’ll experience what it feels like to be part of a SaaS-company with massive growth numbers and what’s needed to enable the scaling of its business operations through code.

What you have:

  • Passion for working on and optimizing business processes

  • 2+ years of Python and SQL programming experience

  • Experience in software development tools and processes, e.g. Git

  • Hands-on experience defining workflows and integrating Hubspot, Salesforce.com, Intercom and similar tools

  • Ability to work and communicate with stakeholders in different parts of the company, e.g. engineering, finance and sales

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

What we value:

  • Experience working in a company with an on-demand / pay-as-you-go subscription model

  • Experience in financial modeling

  • Google docs automation skills

What we can offer:

  • A dynamic startup environment with a rapidly growing, international business

  • Highly experienced colleagues

  • Participation in our employee stock option plan

You will be part of a highly-skiled, tight-knit team of just about 40 people, making your contribution essential to what is becoming a great success story. 

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

Equity package
Equity package

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Working at
Aiven

We are Aiven—a cloud technology startup launched in 2016. We create managed cloud services from the best open source technologies that take the infrastructure worries away from our customers. Our products are used daily by hundreds of customers across the globe to power their next-gen event streaming and analytics applications with more joining every single day. Backed by Europe's leading investors, we’re now looking for top talent to join us in our headquarters in Helsinki and our new offices in Boston, Berlin and Sydney.

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