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Chift
One API for Europe's accounting, invoicing, POS, e-commerce, payment and hotel-PMS systems
Last verified September 15, 2026 · Updated daily
What Chift is building
Chift is a unified API for the financial software European businesses actually run on. Gauthier Henroz calls it a power strip: a software company integrates once with Chift and gets a normalised connection to more than 120 systems (the site now says 150+) across six categories: accounting (Xero, QuickBooks, Sage 50 and a long tail of national packages), invoicing (Qonto, Dolibarr), point of sale (Zettle, SumUp, Square), e-commerce (Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon), payments (Stripe, PayPal) and hotel property-management systems (Oracle OPERA Cloud, Mews, Noovy). Chift builds and maintains every connector, so when a vendor changes its API the customer's integration keeps working. The product has three layers now. Unified APIs are the standardised endpoints where the developer stays in control of data and workflow. Agentic Syncs are pre-built bidirectional flows (invoices to the ledger, POS sales to accounting) that a customer switches on in minutes rather than coding. Chift for Agents is the 2026 addition: an MCP server so Claude and other agents can act on financial data through the same permissioned surface, automated field mapping, a CLI, and 'Chifty', a dashboard assistant that diagnoses a broken connection in plain language. Underneath sits a synced data layer so queries over years of history don't hammer the source systems. The customer list is the argument that this is infrastructure, not a wrapper: Revolut, Qonto, Pennylane, Agicap, Pleo, Sage, Mollie, Spendesk and Skello all build on Chift. 150+ software companies use it to reach more than 50,000 end businesses across 13 countries, with the deepest positions in France, Belgium and the Netherlands and Spain added a year ago. The company almost didn't take this shape. In 2022 the founders launched a tool for IT integrators serving SMEs, found the model didn't work, ran roughly 100 interviews with IT departments, software publishers and integrators, and rebuilt around what the publishers were asking for. Gauthier has described spending about six months effectively alone in the middle of that pivot. The lesson they took was to go narrow and deep on Europe, country by country, rather than build a generalist connector platform.
Why this matters
Europe is 27 tax regimes and dozens of national accounting packages, and the software that has to talk to them is being rebuilt right now by two forces at once. The first is mandatory e-invoicing: Belgium made B2B e-invoicing compulsory from 1 January 2026, France's rollout began on 1 September 2026, and Germany has required businesses to be able to receive e-invoices since 2025. Every fintech, ERP and vertical SaaS product selling into those markets now needs live, correct connectivity to the customer's accounting system, not a CSV export. The second is AI agents, which are only useful on financial data if there is a normalised, permissioned layer they can act through, which is exactly what Chift's MCP server is. The market numbers Chift and its investors cite: around 30 million SMBs across Europe and the UK, and a European accounting-services sector worth roughly €174 billion that is still largely manual. Pauline Brunel of BlackFin, a fintech-only fund with more than €4 billion under management, put the investment case bluntly: financial data connectivity is genuinely hard to build in Europe, and AI raises the stakes further. The proof that the difficulty is the moat is the revenue: more than tenfold growth since the 2024 seed, with the largest European fintechs choosing to build on Chift rather than maintain their own connector teams. The four new markets this round funds (UK, Nordics, Germany, Italy) each have their own accounting incumbents, which is precisely why a generalist can't follow.
Open roles at Chift
4 positions we're tracking. Roles are re-checked daily and removed when filled.
Integration / Connector Engineer (Brussels — building and maintaining connectors to national accounting, POS and PMS systems)
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AI / Agentic Platform Engineer (the self-configuring integration layer and the MCP server)
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Country Launch / Sales Lead for UK, Nordics, DACH or Italy
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Solutions Engineer (onboarding fintech and vertical-SaaS customers onto Unified APIs and Agentic Syncs)
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Chift has stated it is recruiting 15 positions across Europe in H2 2026, and the careers page at chift.eu/careers is live (it links to a Notion job board for individual listings). The raise is explicitly tied to entering four new countries and building the agentic layer, both of which are headcount. The company was around 10 people in mid-2024, so 15 hires is a large step-change for the team.
Working at Chift
Chift is a Tech company based in Brussels, Belgium. Working at a Tech company at this stage means opportunity to shape your role based on the company stage.
Brussels, Belgium is where most Chift positions are located.
How to actually get hired at Chift
Why applying the normal way doesn't work
Chift runs an applicant tracking system, but hiring managers still work referrals first. A cold application to Chift isn't dead, it's just fourth in line behind internal referrals, sourced candidates and recruiter pipelines.
Who to contact at Chift
What to show them
Build a connector to one European accounting or POS system Chift doesn't list yet (pick one from the market you know: a national package in the Nordics, Germany or Italy) and normalise its invoices and journal entries into a unified schema. Ship the auth flow, the pagination and rate-limit handling, and a test suite that catches the vendor changing a field. Then write the half-page on what the system does differently from Xero or Sage and why a naive mapping breaks. That write-up is the hire signal.
A cold email that works at Chift
What Chift screens for
BlackFin only does fintech and financial services, and its investment director said the quiet part out loud: connectivity in Europe is hard to build, and that is the asset. The round is structured around four country launches and an agentic layer, which means the next 15 hires split into two very different profiles: people who can open a market where the accounting incumbent is unknown outside its borders, and engineers who can make a connector configure itself. Chift was listed twice among Sifted's fastest-growing startups and grew revenue more than tenfold on a €2.3M seed, so this is a small, capital-efficient team about to more than double. Being early and specific about which country or which system you would own is the edge.
A tailored CV beats a generic one. Use Chift's job description language to clear filters.
Don't make these mistakes
Do not pitch Chift as 'the Plaid/Merge of Europe' or ask why they don't just go global. Gauthier has said publicly that he chose Europe on purpose, country by country, because the fragmentation is the whole point, and he spent six months alone in a pivot to get there. A note that frames Europe as a stepping stone reads as someone who missed the thesis. Also skip 'LLMs make integrations trivial now'; the product exists because connectors break and someone has to own them. Gauthier sold complex software at EASI and did risk advisory at Deloitte before founding, and Henry is a KU Leuven/UCL double-degree CTO who has written every early connector. Lead with a specific integration you have fought: a national accounting package's SOAP API, an e-invoicing platform's edge case, a POS that reports sales on a different fiscal day than the ledger. Name the system.
Mistakes that kill Chift applications
Generic CVs stand out at a -person company — and not in a good way. Fastest path to rejection.
Don't open with what you want. Open with what Chift is dealing with right now — Europe is 27 tax regimes and dozens of national accounting packages, and the software that has to talk to them is being rebuilt right now by two forces at once, and what you'd do about it.
Most Tech applications get ghosted. A day-five follow-up can double your response rate.
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The Chift interview process
4 stages · 14 days typical · take-home: no · modelled from similar companies
We don't yet have verified candidate reports for Chift. What follows is the typical process for a -person Tech company — treat it as a model, not confirmed detail.
Interview stages
Recruiter Screen
Phone or video · 30 min
Basic qualification and logistics
Recruiter or HR
Hiring Manager Interview
Video call · 45 min
Role fit and experience deep-dive
Hiring manager
Technical/Functional Round
Video call · 60 min
Skills assessment and problem-solving
Team members
Final Round
In-person or video · 60 min
Culture fit and cross-functional alignment
Senior leadership
Chift interview timeline
Timeline: ~ days. That's about average than the Tech median (14 days at people).
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How many jobs does Chift have open?
As of September 2026, Chift has 4 open positions.
Does Chift hire remotely?
Currently, Chift only has in-office roles in Brussels, Belgium.
What roles is Chift hiring for?
Chift is hiring across Engineering, Sales. The most recent opening is Integration / Connector Engineer (Brussels — building and maintaining connectors to national accounting, POS and PMS systems).
How do I apply for a job at Chift?
Apply via the links above. For tips, read our guide on how to get hired at Chift.
Does Chift respond to cold emails?
Not enough data yet on Chift's cold email response rates.
Who is the hiring manager at Chift?
At this size, hiring is usually run by the hiring manager.
How competitive is it to get hired at Chift?
Expect 100-250 applicants in the first two weeks for Tech roles at this size. Apply within 72 hours for best odds.
How many rounds is the Chift interview?
4 stages: Recruiter Screen, Hiring Manager Interview, Technical/Functional Round, Final Round.
Is the Chift interview hard?
Expect relevant experience and culture fit, not algorithm trivia. Candidates report Final Round as the toughest stage.
Does Chift give a take-home task?
No, Chift does not include a take-home stage.
How long does Chift take to get back to you?
Around 14 days across the full process.
What should I prepare for the Chift interview?
relevant experience and culture fit is the priority. Show you can work autonomously — that matters more than algorithms at people.
Where is Chift based?
Chift is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
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