E-procurement platform connecting buyers to 80M supplier articles
Simple System operates a B2B e-procurement platform launched in 2000, running on a polyglot stack (Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes) that suggests a maturing backend capable of handling high-volume catalog and transaction workloads. Current hiring focuses on sales and marketing roles alongside backend engineering—a pattern consistent with scaling go-to-market rather than product innovation, and their pain-point list (sales workflow bottlenecks, lead scoring, customer feedback integration) confirms they're optimizing GTM and retention rather than building new features.
Simple System is a German e-procurement platform founded in 2000, headquartered in Munich. The core product bundles access to 80 million articles from leading indirect procurement vendors, automating and accelerating purchase processes for mid-market and enterprise buyers. The company serves B2B procurement teams and their sales counterparts at supplier organizations. At 11–50 employees, Simple System operates as a lean, privately held vendor in a mature category, with active work spanning backend services, marketplace development, and sales enablement automation (lead scoring, email nurturing, workflow optimization).
Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Ansible form the core. They also use AWS, HubSpot, Power BI, and Microsoft Office across the platform.
B2B marketplace development, backend services for their e-procurement platform, and sales operations automation including lead generation, lead scoring, and email nurturing workflows.
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