Principle 01
Deep domain
We hire engineers and operators who already understand procurement, supply chain, or trade operations. The first question in every interview loop is a plant-floor scenario, not a LeetCode puzzle.
CAREERS AT ORDENTRA
Join the founding team building software operators run their business on.
ORDENTRA is a pre-launch startup hiring its first cohort. Everyone joining in 2026 will be among the first twenty employees. We hire engineers, product people, and operators who already understand procurement and supply chain — and reject the performative urgency that defines most enterprise software companies.
Why work here
A quiet company building loud enterprise software.
Founding teamRemote-firstAmsterdam HQ
ORDENTRA is run by people who were once the customer. The founding team has shipped procurement, supply-chain, and trade-operations software used by real operators, and has carried the on-call pager for enterprise ERPs. When a design partner describes a problem, we usually have someone who has lived it.
We do not manufacture urgency. We ship on a cadence that matches how our design partners actually change their systems. We do not launch on Fridays, we do not run demos for TechCrunch, and we are not building a growth team. What we are building is a small, focused company with a written roadmap, compensation bands on day one, and a design partner cohort that reviews our priorities every week.
If that sounds boring, it probably is. It is also why we are willing to turn down partners who do not want to commit to weekly feedback, and why we would rather be small and honest than large and vague.
Principle 02
Distributed by default
We are remote-first from day one, not a headquarters culture pretending to be remote. Meeting notes in writing, decisions in writing, architecture in writing. Offices exist for deep work and partner travel, not performance.
Principle 03
Public benchmarking
Compensation bands, levels, and progression criteria are written down before your offer is made, even as a founding-stage team. No insider-baseball conversations about what someone else earned.
Principle 04
No performative urgency
We do not launch on Fridays. We do not run fire drills for TechCrunch. We ship the things that matter to the design partners building ORDENTRA with us, in the order that matters to them.
Our first roles
Founding-team roles, every one with a public band.
Every role lists location, employment type, and the function it reports into. Compensation bands are sent in the first conversation. Every applicant receives a response within four business days. Everyone joining in 2026 will be among the first twenty employees.
Engineering
2 rolesFounding Solutions Architect
Lead design partner implementations hand in hand with the founding team. Travel occasionally across the EU.
Amsterdam or Remote (EU)Full-timeApplyStaff Software Engineer, Platform
Own the transaction graph and ledger primitives at the core of ORDENTRA.
Remote (EU)Full-timeApply
Product
1 roleFounding Product Manager
Work directly with the design partner cohort to shape the 2026 roadmap across order management, inventory, and OPEX intelligence.
Amsterdam or Remote (EU)Full-timeApply
Sales
1 roleFounding Account Executive, EU
First sales hire. Help us close design partners now and build the commercial motion for GA in 2026.
Remote (EU)Full-timeApply
Solutions
1 roleCustomer Engineer
Partner with design partners through their first weeks on ORDENTRA and turn their feedback into shipped code.
Remote (EU)Full-timeApply
Content
1 roleTechnical Writer
Write the first integration guides and runbooks design partner engineering teams will actually read.
Remote (EU)Full-timeApply
Benefits & compensation
Compensation you don't need to negotiate around.
Health & wellbeing
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision in every country we employ, with same-day telehealth access.
Founding equity
Meaningful founding-team equity on a 4-year vest. Refreshers at every promotion. Designed to be tax-advantaged in the EU.
Learning budget
€2,500 per year, no manager approval, renews annually.
Remote setup stipend
€2,000 on start, €750 annual refresh. Keyboard, monitor, chair — your choice.
Parental leave
20 weeks fully paid for all new parents, regardless of gender or region.
Sabbatical
Four fully paid weeks every four years. Bookable, not earned-by-approval.
Compensation philosophy
Bands, not negotiations.
Every founding role at ORDENTRA has a written band with a defined entry, target, and senior point. The band applies regardless of who negotiates hardest. We benchmark against public Radford and Levels.fyi data for comparable EU enterprise SaaS roles and we will publish updates as the team grows.
We do not do sign-on bonuses, referral bonuses, or spot cash awards. We do refresh equity at every promotion, and we do adjust the bands upward whenever the benchmark moves — before anyone asks.
Pay transparency is an internal policy before it is a compliance obligation. We would rather employees have the full picture than sharp elbows.
Benchmarked at founding
Interview process
Five steps, average 18 calendar days.
We do not drag interview loops across six weeks. Every stage is timeboxed, every conversation is prepped in advance, and every decision comes with a written debrief.
- 01
Application review
One engineer plus the hiring manager read every application within four business days. Every applicant gets a written response — no ghosting, no auto-rejects.
- 02
Intro conversation
30 minutes with the hiring manager. Two-way: you ask what you want, we share compensation and the real shape of the team. No trick questions.
- 03
Craft interview
A focused, paid take-home or on-the-day scenario drawn from actual work we have shipped. Maximum four hours. Reviewed by two engineers.
- 04
Team conversations
Three 45-minute conversations with future peers. We send the questions in advance. You should be evaluating us as hard as we are evaluating you.
- 05
Decision & offer
Written debrief, decision within two business days, verbal offer the same week. Every offer is sent with the band, the level, and the equity grid.
Speculative applications
Don't see your role? Send the letter anyway.
If you are an operator, engineer, or builder who understands this space, we would rather hear from you now than miss you when a spot opens. Founding teams get built one unexpected conversation at a time.
Book a demo · Enterprise onboarding, Q2 2026
Ready to bring every operation onto one ledger?
A 30-minute, no-sell conversation with a solutions architect who has deployed ORDENTRA at Global 2000 operations teams. Bring the hardest question your CFO has asked this quarter — we’ll answer it on the call.
Hosted by a founding team member, not a BDR script.
Your 30 minutes
- 010 – 5 min
Your stack, mapped
We pull your existing ERP, commerce, and data footprint onto one canvas before the call — no questionnaires.
- 025 – 20 min
Reference deployment
A live walkthrough of a peer in your vertical running ORDENTRA at scale. Real data, real workflows.
- 0320 – 30 min
Procurement & security Q&A
Bring your hardest questions. We answer on the call, in writing, with your security team copied.
- Scheduled within 24 hours
- NDA available on request
- SOC 2 review packet at GA
- No obligation, no follow-up cadence