Senior Backend Product Software Engineer, Leuven

Wolters Kluwer, headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, is a leading global provider of information, software, and services for professionals. We serve customers in more than 180 countries, operating through five divisions: Health; Tax&Accounting; Corporate Performance&ESG; Financial Corporate Compliance; and Legal&Regulatory. The company employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide.

About Kyte Kyte is a lightweight, user-friendly SaaS-based invoicing tool designed for freelancers, sole traders, and small businesses. It enables users to create and send professional e-invoices in seconds, fully compliant with digital invoicing regulations.

About The Role Join us as a Senior Product Software Engineer, where you will execute specialized software development tasks for the Kyte product. Your role will involve advanced coding, system design, and optimizing software solutions that enhance our products' performance and usability. Your expertise will ensure quality outcomes and drive technological innovations.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development of the product architecture and features using Go (Golang), ensuring a scalable, maintainable, and high-performance user experience.

Collaborate closely with product managers, product owners, designers, and frontend engineers to define and deliver new functionality.

Continuously improve the codebase by identifying technical debt and refactoring opportunities during the implementation of new features.

Establish and promote backend development best practices, including component architecture, state management, and testing strategies.

Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, backlog refinements, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.

Stay up to date with backend technologies and tooling to evaluate and introduce improvements where appropriate.

Develop comprehensive and sophisticated testing routines and procedures, ensuring thorough software testing.

About you

Professional backend software development experience: Building and maintaining production-grade software as part of a product team. While prior experience with Go (Golang) is advantageous, it is not required; a willingness to learn Go on the job is sufficient.

Cloud experience: Hands‑on experience deploying and running applications in the cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

CI/CD familiarity: Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and understanding how they are used in day‑to‑day development.

Strong engineering fundamentals: Solid understanding of software design, APIs, data modeling, and operational concerns.

Learning mindset: Ability and willingness to learn new languages, frameworks, and tools when needed.

Openness to AI-assisted development: Willingness to adopt AI tools to improve productivity and code quality in daily work.

Competencies

Senior software engineering experience in a full stack team

Incremental refactoring within feature work

Agile software development (Scrum, Kanban)

Cross-functional collaboration and communication

Code review and mentoring

What do we offer?

A flexible, hybrid work setup;

An engaged, diverse, and quality driven team;

A culture that celebrates diversity and values talent.

Wolters Kluwer invests continuously in the growth and competencies of its employees by giving them many opportunities to develop.

Apply If you are a motivated individual and you like what you see in this job description, we would love to hear from you. Simply click on the apply button!

Contact Rasi Fawaz - Senior Corporate Recruiter

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Location: Leuven, Belgium - Hybrid

Our Interview Practices: To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

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