A product, not a project. The site, the search, the morning edition and the consulting arm run every day, with real users and real tenders.
Friedrich & Clement · Careers
Every night we read 107 procurement portals in 24 languages. We are five people short.
Friedrich & Clement is a search engine for public tenders across Europe, built by a small team that would rather measure than guess. We are looking for people who want to work on a real product with real data — not on slides about one.
- 107
- portals read every night
- 27
- countries
- 17.7M
- documented awards with a named winner
What we are.
Small and founder-led. Whoever joins works directly with the person making decisions, and sees the next morning what their work changed.
Remote, based in Germany. We meet online, work in writing and measure what we do. A sentence you will hear often: “show me the number.”
Five open roles.
- Internship · remote, Germany · 3 to 6 months
App Development Intern
You build on the site and the search that serve tens of thousands of pages a day — on the stack that actually runs.
What you do
- Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Vercel. Improve pages that exist, build pages that are missing — tender pages in languages we do not have yet, for instance.
- Think in pipelines: what happens between the loader that reads a portal and the page a bidder opens, and where does something get lost on the way?
- Find mistakes before a reader does. We check against the live site, not against the intention.
What you bring
- TypeScript or JavaScript, and a project of your own we can look at.
- Curiosity about databases. You do not need SQL yet, but you want it.
- Care: you read the error message before you ask.
Why it matters
A product with 20 million records and five languages has more worthwhile work than one team can do. Yours is live on day one.
- Full-time or freelance · remote, Europe
B2B Sales, experienced
You sell to companies that want to win public contracts — the search, the morning edition, and consulting on a success fee.
What you do
- Construction firms, IT providers, cleaning companies, engineering offices: firms that miss tenders today because they never see them. You find them, talk to them, listen.
- Argue with our data. We know who won last in a sector and how many bidders are typical there. That is your opening, not a slide.
- Build the sales function that does not exist yet: segments, objections, pricing, process. You are the first person with this job.
What you bring
- Several years of B2B sales, ideally to mid-sized firms or to companies that already bid for public work.
- A language beyond English is an advantage — our customers sit in 27 countries.
- You can take a no and learn from it.
Why it matters
The product is built, the data is there, the customers do not know yet. That gap is your role.
- Freelance or part-time · remote, Germany
Procurement practice — the person who reads the documents
Our machine finds the tender. You decide whether a client can win it, and see the bid through.
What you do
- Read tender documents fast and precisely: selection criteria, evidence, deadlines, formalities. Say what is missing before it is too late.
- Co-write and review bids. Think about consortia when a client alone does not meet the criteria.
- Sharpen our tool: what you notice while reading becomes a rule the machine checks itself next time.
What you bring
- Years on one side of the table: as a bid manager, in a contracting authority, in an engineering office that bids regularly.
- You know the German rules — VgV, UVgO, VOB/A — from procedures won and lost, not from a textbook.
- You also say no, to a procedure a client cannot win.
Why it matters
Our consulting is paid only on award. It works only with a person who really knows the procedure. That is you.
- Freelance, by the hour · remote
Native-language review — Polish, French, Spanish, Italian
You read the pages in your language the way a bidder reads them, and tell us where they are wrong, stiff, or secretly German.
What you do
- Walk your language tree regularly: home page, guides, tender pages, the morning edition. Mark what is off.
- Check terminology: a framework agreement has one word in every language that contracting authorities actually use. We want exactly that word.
- Teach us what we cannot see: prepositions, country names, forms of address, date formats.
What you bring
- Native Polish, French, Spanish or Italian — plus English or German to talk to us.
- Ideally some contact with public procurement in your country: as a bidder, clerk, translator.
- An ear for language. You hear when a sentence sounds translated.
Why it matters
We learned it the hard way: a language nobody in-house reads is a language with invisible mistakes. Every error we have found so far was found by a person, not a script.
How we work.
- Measured, not guessed. Before we claim something, we count it. That goes for pages, for translations and for ourselves.
- In writing, asynchronously. Decisions live in documents you can find again. Meetings are the exception.
- Direct. There is no layer between you and the decision. That is faster — and sometimes uncomfortable.
- Honest about where we are. We are small, much is under construction, and today we have more pages than users. If that sounds like an opportunity rather than a warning, you will fit.
Apply.
No forms, no cover-letter theatre. An email with five lines is enough.
- Which role, and why that one.
- The last thing you built, wrote or sold — with a link if there is one.
- From when, and how many hours.
- Your languages.
- One question for us.
We discuss pay in the first conversation — openly and with numbers, like everything here.
Apply.
No forms, no cover-letter theatre. An email with five lines is enough.