Application Guide
How to Apply for Solutions Engineer (Consultant)
at Cerve
🏢 About Cerve
Cerve is unique because it focuses specifically on transforming the food and beverage supply chain through technology, addressing sustainability and collaboration challenges in a critical industry. Working there offers the opportunity to build tools that directly impact how food reaches consumers while tackling real-world integration problems across diverse systems.
About This Role
This Solutions Engineer role involves end-to-end ownership of customer projects, from scoping technical requirements to production deployment, while bridging customer needs with Cerve's engineering team. It's impactful because you'll directly solve integration challenges in the food supply chain, building custom solutions that connect legacy systems with Cerve's modern platform.
💡 A Day in the Life
A typical day might involve morning meetings with a food distributor customer to understand their legacy system challenges, then designing integration solutions while collaborating with Cerve's engineering team. Afternoons could include hands-on coding to build backend services in Go or Python, testing integrations with real supply chain data, and documenting solutions for customer maintenance.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who Cerve Is Looking For
- Has 5-8 years in consulting or customer-facing software delivery roles, with proven experience translating business requirements into working solutions
- Possesses hands-on experience with messy real-world data sources (CSVs, legacy databases, non-standard formats) and building data integrations
- Is a technical generalist comfortable across backend and frontend, with ability to quickly learn Go and Python as mentioned in the partial requirements
- Demonstrates strong technical communication skills, able to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders while ensuring solution maintainability
📝 Tips for Applying to Cerve
Highlight specific examples of building integrations with 'messy real-world data sources' mentioned in requirements, not just clean API work
Showcase projects where you balanced pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability, as emphasized in the solution design responsibilities
Demonstrate your customer-facing experience in consulting or agency roles, not just internal engineering positions
Include examples of end-to-end project ownership from discovery through production deployment
Mention experience with supply chain, logistics, or food/beverage industry systems since Cerve operates in this specific domain
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your experience with customer-facing technical roles and translating business requirements into working software', 'Specific examples of building integrations with legacy systems or non-standard data formats relevant to supply chain challenges', 'Your approach to balancing quick delivery with scalable solutions in consulting environments', "Why you're interested in the food and beverage supply chain specifically and how your experience aligns with Cerve's mission"]
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Cerve's specific products and how they integrate with food/beverage supply chain systems
- → Current challenges in food supply chain sustainability and integration (industry publications, reports)
- → The technology stack mentioned (Go, Python) and how it might apply to supply chain solutions
- → Sweden's food and beverage industry landscape and any specific regulations or standards
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Focusing only on clean, modern API integrations without showing experience with legacy systems or messy data formats
- Presenting as purely an internal engineer without demonstrating customer-facing consulting experience
- Emphasizing theoretical solutions over practical, delivered projects with measurable outcomes
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
Congratulations!