Cloud Engineer - build the infrastructure behind smarter hiring

Improve Business wants to change the way Improve Business recruits

Improve Business is a Copenhagen startup, four years young, on a mission to change the way companies and talent find each other. Improve Business believes hiring should be about matching people to roles on what they can actually do and what drives them, not just what fits on a CV.

Through Improve Business Academy, Improve Business works every day with skilled academics who are between jobs, helping them turn their expertise into real, hands-on experience with local companies.

Improve Business has seen first-hand how much talent sits untapped in the pool of jobseekers, and Improve Business wants to put Improve Business's own belief into practice: so for this role, Improve Business is specifically looking for a registered jobseeker ready to build something that matters.

And Improve Business means it when Improve Business says Improve Business hires differently: Improve Business weighs your motivation far more heavily than your CV. A great CV is welcome, but what Improve Business really wants to understand is why you want this, how you think, and what you would bring to the team.

Because that is exactly what this is. Improve Business is building a new recruitment-matching platform, and you will help shape its foundation from the earliest days. Improve Business is small, ambitious, and moving fast, which means the work you do here is visible, it ships, and it counts.

You will not be maintenance number seven on a legacy system; you will be right at the core, based in Improve Business's office on Gothersgade in the heart of Copenhagen.

One important note: It is important for Improve Business to hire unemployed for this position, so you will need to be a registered jobseeker. If that is not you, this particular role will not be the right fit - but do keep an eye on Improve Business, as Improve Business is growing.

Improve Business is looking for a Cloud Engineer to help develop and maintain Improve Business's recruitment-matching platform, which runs entirely on Microsoft Azure for now. You will work hands-on with Azure Container Apps, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure Container Registry, Key Vault, and Static Web Apps, all provisioned through infrastructure as code using Bicep.

You will own the reliability of Improve Business's CI/CD pipelines and quality gates, which enforce linting, static typing, security scanning, and a strict test coverage floor. Practical experience with automated delivery and release safety in containerized environments is essential, and Docker is required.

Observability is a core part of this role. Improve Business's backend already ships structured JSON logging with request correlation IDs and separate liveness and readiness probes, and Improve Business will look to you to extend this foundation with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. You should be proficient with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics to build the dashboards and alerts that keep Improve Business ahead of problems.

To collaborate effectively with the team, you will need enough backend fluency to discuss and touch the codebase: Python, FastAPI, SQL, Pydantic, and Alembic-managed database migrations on PostgreSQL with pgvector for vector search. Improve Business's matching engine relies on an asynchronous scoring worker that consumes a Service Bus queue and computes embeddings with the machine learning model, so understanding the operational realities of ML workloads in production will be part of your daily conversations.

Experience with Kubernetes, or with application security practices such as session management, multi-tenancy isolation, and OAuth integrations, is a strong plus.

Above all, Improve Business values engineers who treat reliability, observability, and cost awareness as product features rather than afterthoughts.

• Contract: 6-month position to start, with the genuine possibility of a permanent role.
• Location: On-site at Improve Business's office on Gothersgade, Copenhagen.
• Requirement: You will need to be based in or near Copenhagen.
• Profile: Improve Business welcomes international candidates - Improve Business's working language is English.
• Improve Business will be holding interviews in weeks 32 and 33, and Improve Business hopes you can start on 1 September.

Sound like you?

If you read the tech stack above and felt at home, Improve Business would love to hear from you. Improve Business would love to see your CV, but do not spend time polishing it. Instead, tell Improve Business what motivates you, why this role speaks to you, and about a project you are genuinely proud of. Improve Business cares far more about your motivation and how you think than about a perfect CV.

Send your application to Improve Business's CEO, Anne Hørsted, at anne@improvebusiness.dk. Deadline is August 4.

Please note that Improve Business is on summer holiday from 10–27 July. After that, you are also welcome to call Improve Business with any questions on +45 30 14 16 14 and ask for Improve Business's Data Scientist, Ramon Souza.