Software Engineer, Backend, AI

• Location Qualifications :
• Ghent (hybrid 2x week in office) or
• Bucharest (hybrid 2x week in office)

About the position

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.

Key Responsibilities

Build AI-powered features that use 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 implement and maintain our growing ecosystem of microservices .

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.

Apply a security-first approach to the features and changes you deliver.

Grow your technical and architectural skills through mentoring from senior engineers, and support more junior colleagues where you can.

Keep the bigger picture in mind, because your work will reach 100,000 users globally.

Are you our next Backend Engineer?

Must haves

3+ years developing production-ready backend systems.

Solid proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js . Experience with JVM languages is a plus.

Interest in or early experience with AI/LLM integration and p rompt engineering .

Working knowledge of event-driven systems (message queues, asynchronous workflows). Experience with serverless architectures and state machines is a plus.

Experience in a cloud environment. AWS experience is a plus, particularly Lambda, DynamoDB, Bedrock, OpenSearch, and API Gateway.

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.

Ability to break down and estimate well-defined pieces of work, and to prioritize them with guidance.

Ability to model data and queries around feature requirements with performance in mind. Experience in a multi-tenant database environment is a plus.

A continuous integration and delivery mindset.

Experience building or consuming APIs , and collaborating with internal or external data consumers.

A team player mentality, committed to the full software development life cycle in an agile team.

Nice to have

Experience with search and retrieval systems, vector search, or semantic search.

Experience with backend systems for AI/ML-powered products .

Company Highlights:

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.

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&Johnson), CPG (Smucker’s, Mitsubishi, Stanley Black & Decker), and enterprise tech (HID, CultureAmp, LastPass).

Acclaimed by analysts and adored by customers, we’re recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ Revenue Enablement Platforms, honored by Gartner as a Customers’ Choice in Revenue Enablement Platforms, and, together, endorsed by nearly 3,000 5-star customer reviews on G2.

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.

Discover the revenue team outcomes we’re driving together at showpad.com .