Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Ghent

About the Position As a Senior Backend Engineer in one of the AI focused teams, you will help shape the future of intelligent, AI-powered features that enhance how sales teams work. You'll build and maintain serverless event-driven systems and APIs that integrate with third‑party services. You'll be responsible for driving technical and product decisions based on your expertise, designing solutions that leverage modern AI capabilities to deliver real value to users. Rather than a monolithic environment, you will help develop an ecosystem of services, as you identifyand isolate parts of the system to increase reliability and promote quality. Your decisions will not only have an impact on the way we build our product but also on the end‑user experience for all our customers.

Location Ghent (hybrid, 2 days in the office)

What You’ll Do

Develop AI‑powered features that leverage large language models to automate and enhance user workflows.

Contribute to improving our development processes and environments.

Build and maintain integrations with third‑party platforms and APIs.

Help define, implement, and maintain our growing ecosystem of microservices.

Work in software teams where code reviews and pair programming are part of our strong engineering culture.

Take a security‑first approach to implementing features and changes.

Collaborate with and mentor less experienced engineers on best practices and architectures.

Have a strong eye on the bigger picture because everything you do will have an impact on 100,000 users globally.

What We’re Looking For (Nice To Have)

5+ years developing scalable, production‑ready backend systems.

Experience with backend systems for AI/ML‑powered product is a plus.

Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js.

Interest in or experience with AI/LLM integration and prompt engineering.

Experience with serverless architectures and event‑driven systems (message queues, state machines, asynchronous workflows).

Experience working in a cloud environment. Experience working in AWS and familiarity with services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Bedrock, Step Functions, and API Gateway is a plus.

Understanding the importance of strong software testing at every stage and an advocate for test‑driven development.

Comfortable analyzing, estimating, and prioritizing complex projects.

Ability to model data and queries around feature requirements with an emphasis on performance and scalability. Experience working in a tenant database environment is a plus

Continuous integration and delivery mindset.

Experience designing and implementing APIs for, and collaborating with, internal and/or public data consumers.

Team player mentality, committed to the whole software development life cycle in an agile team.

What You Can Expect From Showpad We welcome every voice and are committed to building a truly inclusive environment where your differences are not just welcomed, they are celebrated. We’re building a best‑in‑class experience for our employees and are always identifying opportunities to encourage our team to be their authentic selves. Whether that’s paid parental leave, paid holidays (including Juneteenth and paid time off to vote), paid time off to volunteer at non‑profit organizations, personal development opportunities or professional stretch assignments, you can expect Showpad to support you.

Showpad’s Commitment We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organization and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation,national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other dimensions of identity.

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