Senior Software Engineer (Graph Technologies) at Ardoq

Help organizations untangle complexity by building the AI-powered digital blueprint of the modern enterprise.

The Ardoq Story

Ardoq is one of Norway’s most exciting scale-ups—a truly global company built out of Oslo. We are a SaaS platform that helps organizations understand, manage, and evolve their complex digital landscape. By providing a dynamic, collaborative "digital twin" of their business, we connect systems, people, and processes to drive better decision-making and accelerate digital transformation.

Today, we help some of the world’s most complex organizations (like ExxonMobil and British Telecom) gain clarity in a changing world. We are backed by leading global tech investors, including EQT and One Peak, giving us the stability of a mature company with the speed and soul of a startup.

About the Role

In an AI-fueled world, enterprises face a new kind of complexity—not just more data, but more noise. As a Senior Engineer in the Graph team, you will be at the heart of our Knowledge Graph and AI-driven transformation, building the tools that turn fragmented inputs into connected, contextual intelligence.

Ardoq has been developing its own graph database engine. A unique multi-model graph database with support for point in time queries, zero cost branching, semantic models and reasoning. This technology is essential for achieving the strategic goal of developing enterprise digital twins.

At Ardoq, we value autonomy and psychological safety. In this role, you will have the influence to shape the domain and the ownership to see your ideas through to execution.

What you’ll do

• Architect the Foundation: Build out capabilities and harden the graph database for production workloads

• Shape the AI Future: Partner with Product to align and expose the capabilities of graph technologies with the AI roadmap.

• Optimize for Health: Lead technical clean-up efforts and pay down high-complexity technical debt to strengthen long-term system maintainability.

• Fuel our Culture: Foster a high-performance culture built on mentorship, knowledge sharing, and collective success.

On a typical day, you will

You’ll start with a sync to align on mission-critical features, then dive into high-impact coding or architectural design for our proprietary graph database. You’ll spend time providing architecture-level feedback in code reviews, mentoring peers, and experimenting with modern AI approaches to improve our efficiency. By afternoon, you might be collaborating across disciplines to evaluate a solution for a customer's digital transformation journey, ensuring our engineering decisions measurably support their outcomes.

Who you are

We are looking for a collaborator who balances deep domain expertise with a humble, "team-first" mindset.

• The Experience: You have a proven track record in advanced software development, ideally within a high-growth SaaS environment, and are comfortable delivering solutions across large, partially defined scopes.

• The Mindset: You are action-orientated and maintain momentum even when navigating ambiguity. You have the courage to raise technical concerns early and challenge assumptions respectfully.

• The Tools: You are proficient in modern software patterns and system-level debugging, but you are also "AI-fluent"—regularly exploring tools to improve code quality and Efficiency.

• The Communicator: You use structured thinking to guide decisions and can communicate clear recommendations to stakeholders at all levels.

The "Ardoq Way"

We live by three values — Bold, Caring, and Driven — that define how we work, how we treat each other, and how we win.

• BOLD: We continuously raise the bar for ourselves and each other, starting from a place of "what if I could?" We act decisively, even when the information isn't complete, and choose forward motion and learning over waiting for the perfect answer.

• CARING: We care enough to be candid. That means delivering direct, kind, and timely feedback that helps our teammates grow. We operate as one team — sharing knowledge openly, celebrating each other's wins, and putting collective success ahead of individual ones.

• DRIVEN: At Ardoq, everyone has a stake in the outcome — including stock options. We act like owners: measuring success by impact rather than effort, saying "no" to distractions, and staying focused on the highest-value work at pace.

Why Ardoq?

We believe that high performance is powered by wellbeing. You’ll have access to a competitive package that supports performance, wellbeing, and long-term success.

• Employee Stock Options - share in Ardoq’s success as we grow together

• 25 days annual leave offered globally

• Enhanced parental leave available globally to support you and your family

• Retirement and insurance benefits, including travel, health, disability and life insurance

• Annual learning budget to support your growth and development

• A hybrid working policy: 2-3 days per week from one of our centrally located offices (London, Copenhagen, Oslo, New York)

How to Apply

Send us your CV - we’d love to hear from you

Our hiring process typically includes 3 - 4 interview stages:

Intro screen → chat with hiring manager → technical interview → values interview.

Final Note

At Ardoq, every teammate has a voice. Whether you love tackling enterprise-scale challenges or improving how companies run, you’ll not only belong, you’ll impact, grow, and make work meaningful.

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