Software Engineer, Backend, AI
<p><strong>Location Qualifications</strong><strong>:</strong><strong><br></strong>Ghent (hybrid 2x week in office) or<br>Bucharest (hybrid 2x week in office)</p> <p><strong>About the position</strong></p> <p>As a Backend Engineer in one of our AI-focused teams, you will help build intelligent, AI-powered features that enhance how sales teams work. You’ll develop and maintain serverless, event-driven systems and APIs that integrate with third-party services. Working closely with senior engineers, you’ll take ownership of well-scoped features and contribute to technical and product discussions, helping design solutions that use modern AI capabilities to deliver real value to users. Rather than a monolithic environment, you’ll work within an ecosystem of services and help improve their reliability and quality. Your work will shape the end-user experience for all our customers.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build AI-powered features that use large language models to automate and enhance user workflows.</li> <li>Contribute to improving our development processes and environments.</li> <li>Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms and APIs.</li> <li>Help implement and maintain our growing ecosystem of <strong>microservices</strong>.</li> <li>Work in teams where code reviews and pair programming are part of our strong engineering culture, learning from experienced engineers and sharing what you know.</li> <li>Apply a security-first approach to the features and changes you deliver.</li> <li>Grow your technical and architectural skills through mentoring from senior engineers, and support more junior colleagues where you can.</li> <li>Keep the bigger picture in mind, because your work will reach 100,000 users globally.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Are you our next Backend&nbsp; Engineer?</strong></p> <p>Must haves</p> <ul> <li>3+ years developing production-ready backend systems.</li> <li>Solid proficiency in <strong>TypeScript </strong>and <strong>Node.js</strong>. Experience with JVM languages is a plus.</li> <li>Interest in or early experience with <strong>AI/LLM integration</strong> and p<strong>rompt engineering</strong>.</li> <li>Working knowledge of event-driven systems (message queues, asynchronous workflows). Experience with serverless architectures and state machines is a plus.</li> <li>Experience in a cloud environment. <strong>AWS</strong> experience is a plus, particularly <strong>Lambda, DynamoDB, Bedrock, OpenSearch, and API Gateway.</strong></li> <li>A solid understanding of why testing matters at every stage, with practical experience writing unit and integration tests. Familiarity with test-driven development is a plus.</li> <li>Ability to break down and estimate well-defined pieces of work, and to prioritize them with guidance.</li> <li>Ability to model data and queries around feature requirements with performance in mind. Experience in a multi-tenant database environment is a plus.</li> <li>A continuous integration and delivery mindset.</li> <li>Experience building or consuming<strong> APIs</strong>, and collaborating with internal or external data consumers.</li> <li>A team player mentality, committed to the full software development life cycle in an agile team.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Nice to have</p> <ul> <li>Experience with search and retrieval systems, vector search, or semantic search.</li> <li>Experience with <strong>backend systems for AI/ML-powered products</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Company Highlights:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Welcome to the new era of revenue effectiveness. The merger of Showpad and Bigtincan is creating the first AI-powered platform to strengthen the entire field selling motion.</p> <p>By unifying two industry-acclaimed solutions for content, readiness, engagement, and intelligence into a single operating system, we are delivering unrivaled scale and accelerated growth for our 2,000+ combined customers worldwide, including leaders in manufacturing (Dow, Dupont), healthcare (Fujifilm, Kaiser Permanente, Johnson&amp;Johnson), CPG (Smucker’s, Mitsubishi, Stanley Black &amp; Decker), and enterprise tech (HID, CultureAmp, LastPass).</p> <p>Acclaimed by analysts and adored by customers, we’re recognized as a Leader in the <a href="https://www.showpad.com/reports/forrester-wave-leader-2024">Forrester</a> Wave™ Revenue Enablement Platforms, honored by <a href="https://www.showpad.com/reports/gartner-voice-of-the-customer-2024">Gartner</a> as a Customers’ Choice in Revenue Enablement Platforms, and, together, endorsed by nearly 3,000 5-star customer reviews on G2.</p> <p>United, we’re focused on powering the next generation of field selling success through a more holistic engine that creates lasting value for our customers and a new vision for our category.</p> <p>Discover the revenue team outcomes we’re driving together at <a href="http://showpad.com/">showpad.com</a>.</p>
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