Senior Software Engineer (Supplier Data Manager)

Akeneo is the Product Experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM), creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere. We’re all about experience - from the best-in-class product we build to the inspiring environment we create for our employees. You’ll grow in a dynamic environment where your ideas and expertise will make an impact from day one. Our flexible work model empowers you to thrive, balancing professional success with personal fulfilment. At Akeneo, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values open communication, shared successes, and meaningful relationships. The Team and Areas of Ownership The (SDM) team has full ownership over the Akeneo Supplier Data Manager product — the front door to the Akeneo Product Cloud. SDM is a "painkiller", not a "vitamin," as they say. Retailers and distributors don't adopt it because it's nice to have — they adopt it because without it, onboarding supplier data is a manual, error-prone headache that blocks products from reaching shelves. Hundreds of suppliers send product data in wildly different ways and formats — spreadsheets, PDFs, images — and that data needs to be cleaned, classified, enriched, and trusted before it reaches the product catalog. SDM handles this through a pipeline of interconnected modules spanning AI-powered extraction, intelligent classification, data mapping, validation, multi-destination distribution and more. The scale is what makes it technically interesting. These aren't small files you can throw at the latest LLM and get a clean answer back. Supplier catalogs can be enormous, they update constantly, and they're full of industry-specific terminology, formatting quirks, and domain knowledge that general-purpose AI models struggle to interpret correctly. Building systems that handle this reliably, at volume, across hundreds of different supplier configurations — that's the engineering challenge. SDM operates as an Impact Team: a cross-functional group tasked with bringing a measurable customer reality into existence. Leadership sets the direction and decides how much to invest in each problem; the team owns how to get there. When priorities compete, we make trade-offs together — grounded in customer data, not opinions — and we're comfortable saying no to things that don't move the needle. The team is in a period of significant investment and acceleration, and we're hiring a senior engineer to become a core part of the group that owns SDM's future. What you will deliver in the role… Scale SDM for enterprise customers — work on the architecture, infrastructure, and service design needed to keep SDM fast and reliable as data volumes and customer complexity grow. Build collaboration and governance features — help retailers and their suppliers work together safely by delivering controlled contribution experiences with guardrails, delegation, and approval workflows. Improve AI-driven data pipelines — SDM uses LLMs to extract attributes, classify products, automate mapping, and more. We integrate large language models and have custom models for specific customer needs, supported by a dedicated AI engineering team. You'd own making these capabilities reliable and cost-effective at production scale, tackling problems in pipeline architecture, model selection trade-offs, prompt design, and error handling at volume. Participate in structured customer discovery — validate hypotheses, understand real workflows, and gather feedback that directly shapes what gets built. This is deliberate learning that engineers use to influence product direction. Ship and own what you build — monitor it in production, close the loop with support, and drive operational excellence. A weekly support rotation shared across the team keeps this fair; most of your time is spent building rather than reacting. Collaborate across the Product Cloud