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Referral bonus: If you know someone exceptional for our Engineering and Product roles feel free to reach out to [email protected], if we end up hiring them for a full-time role (not an internship), you’ll receive 10,000€ (post probation).
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Engineering
Founding Engineer (Hamburg/Remote)
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Sales & GTM
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Commercial
Founder’s Associate Intern (Hamburg)
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We are building the operating system for public procurement
Public procurement is the process through which governments and public institutions purchase goods, services, and infrastructure. It accounts for 12% of global GDP, yet the market still runs on fragmented portals, manual keyword searches, and PDF documents nobody reads in time. We are replacing that entire workflow with an AI-native platform that turns months of manual research, evaluation, and application into a single intelligent process, so companies from mid-market to enterprise can compete in public tenders with minimal opportunity cost and zero bureaucratic overhead.
Why Patterno exists
Every year, governments around the world publish millions of tenders. 42% of European tenders receive only one bid, and 15% receive none at all. Not because qualified suppliers don't exist, but because discovering the right tender, deciding whether to bid, and preparing a compliant application is still an entirely manual process with prohibitive opportunity costs.
The result: less competition, weaker bids, and higher costs for taxpayers. Public infrastructure suffers, from digital transformation and construction to healthcare supply and energy transition. These are the sectors that define how countries function, and the procurement system meant to serve them is broken.
Patterno exists to fix that system. We democratize access to public tenders by making every relevant opportunity visible, every bidding decision informed, and every application process manageable, so that public money flows to the companies that deliver the best solutions, not just the ones with the largest bid departments.
Hard problems you'll tackle