We are looking for an AI Forward Deployed Engineer with 5+ years of experience to sit at the intersection of engineering and customer success at Didero — a fast-growing AI startup putting supply chains on autopilot. You'll work directly with enterprise customers to understand their complex procurement and ERP workflows, then design and build the integrations and backend systems that bring Didero's AI agents to life in production.
What will you be doing?
Work directly with customers to understand end-to-end procurement, ERP, and operational workflows — then translate them into scalable technical solutions.
Design and build integrations with enterprise systems like NetSuite, SAP, and Microsoft Business Central via APIs and data pipelines.
Build backend services, workflow automations, and customer-specific solutions using Python/Django.
Partner with Product and Engineering to identify repeatable patterns that feed back into the core platform.
Support customer discovery, deployment planning, and occasional on-site technical workshops (~1–2x/month).
Key Requirements
5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend expertise.
Proficiency in Python and/or Django (or comparable backend technologies).
Hands-on experience building integrations with external APIs, enterprise software, or data pipelines.
Experience working directly with customers or cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Strong systems-thinking mindset — able to question requirements, challenge assumptions, and design scalable architectures in ambiguous environments.
Didero is building the autonomous supply chain, starting with agentic supplier management for direct goods procurement.
Global trade has never been more complex or more critical. Procurement teams are underwater, reacting to a flood of challenges — from geopolitical risk to tariffs to supplier disruptions. Didero's AI agents handle 90% of the manual work required to execute mission-critical source-to-pay workflows, saving customers time and money while allowing them to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
The company automates the entire procurement lifecycle: sourcing suppliers, gathering quotes, submitting purchase orders, following up with vendors on delivery and payment — all the steps that traditionally require human intervention at every turn. Didero deploys cutting-edge AI technology into one of the world's most vital domains, serving mid-market to upper mid-market companies with complex physical supply chains.
Funding & Backing
Didero has raised $37M in total funding, including a $30M Series A in February 2026 led by Headline, Chemistry, and M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund). Their seed round was backed by First Round Capital, Sarah Guo, Jack Altman, Conviction VC, Construct Capital, BoxGroup, and other notable investors across AI, supply chain, and enterprise software.
Team & Culture
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York City, Didero is a ~34-person team growing rapidly post-Series A. The engineering culture is generalist by design — there's no strict frontend/backend divide, and engineers own their full stack including deployment infrastructure. The company operates with a "customer first, platform second, product third" philosophy, meaning engineers work directly with customers to solve real problems before abstracting solutions into scalable platforms.
Tech Stack
The team works primarily in Python, TypeScript, and Rust, building integrations with enterprise systems like NetSuite, SAP, and Microsoft Business Central. Engineers use AI coding tools daily and are expected to be AI-native in their approach to problem-solving.
Team size
11 employeesFounded
Website
www.didero.aiTotal funding
Company locations
Didero's engineering team is lean, fast-moving, and heavily oriented toward customer impact. Currently around 30+ people company-wide, the engineering org is structured around Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) who work directly with customers to build custom workflows and integrations, alongside a smaller platform/product team.
The team is led by Luke Xu, Head of Engineering, who previously worked at Meta and Procore. Luke brings a philosophy that every engineer should be a generalist — there's no rigid separation between backend, frontend, or DevOps. Engineers deploy their own containers, own their solutions end-to-end, and are expected to gather requirements directly from customers and then execute on them.
The FDE team currently has three engineers and is scaling aggressively — targeting five or more hires by end of year. Each FDE is paired with a Deployment Strategist (essentially a customer success manager) who handles relationship management, upselling, and meeting coordination, freeing the FDE to focus purely on understanding the technical problem and delivering results.
The team's technical philosophy prioritizes:
Customer-first development — doing whatever it takes to make the customer successful, even non-scalable solutions initially
Full-stack generalism — Python, TypeScript, and Rust across the stack, with engineers owning everything from infrastructure to UI
AI-native engineering — using tools like Claude Code daily and building agentic workflows as core product
Strong CS fundamentals over narrow specialization
The culture skews toward engineers who are energized by solving real-world problems for end users rather than deep technical puzzles in isolation. Think startup-speed execution with tier-1 engineering caliber.
Didero builds AI agents that automate direct goods procurement for companies with complex physical supply chains. The platform handles the entire procurement lifecycle — sourcing suppliers, gathering quotes, submitting purchase orders, following up with vendors on delivery and payment — all steps that traditionally require human intervention at every turn. Didero's AI agents handle 90% of the manual work required to execute mission-critical source-to-pay workflows, saving customers time and money while allowing them to adapt to rapidly changing global trade conditions like tariffs and geopolitical disruptions. The product integrates with enterprise systems like NetSuite, SAP, and Microsoft Business Central, deploying custom agentic workflows tailored to each customer's specific procurement operations. Didero serves mid-market to upper mid-market companies, automating the complex, repetitive work that keeps procurement teams underwater so they can focus on strategic decisions.