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As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’re focused on driving innovation for new functionalities of our product and optimizing our existing codebase. You will take full ownership of your work, ensuring that all aspects are well-executed, including code functionality, comprehensive test automation, scalability within our cloud infrastructure, and proper monitoring.

Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and contributing to innovative solutions that transform the way businesses engage with their customers?

Your responsibilities a Senior Backend Engineer will extend to working with cutting-edge cloud-native services and solutions, contributing to the continuous evolution of our platform while maximizing its value for our customers. This will involve orchestrating intricate workflows through the utilization of serverless technologies, developing machine learning solutions, and enhancing automation processes. At Showpad innovation never slows down! The dynamic nature of this position ensures that you will always face new challenges, keeping your work engaging and stimulating. We believe in the philosophy of "growing together," where every team member is empowered to learn and evolve alongside the company. This means, you will have the opportunity to expand your skill set and learn the next tech stack on the job, fostering personal and professional growth.

What will you be doing?

• Our teams build, extend and maintain the Showpad platform, which enables thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of sellers to work more efficiently.
• The teams we are looking to hire for are in the Identity and Access Management / Search & content management domains.
• You will be part of a hybrid team working with highly skilled team members from all over Europe.
• Our continuous product growth and high quality requirements will provide you with a lot of engineering challenges and opportunities to contribute to complex problems and learn from industry experts that are similarly motivated.
• You are not a coder, you are a software engineer. You love solving complex problems, building performant, scalable, low latency, and highly available services
• Take active part in an autonomous team, deciding on team related items such as habits, timelines and tech direction
• Collaborate with product to plan and continuously develop
• Paving the way on groundbreaking new features, designing and implementing architecture, developing and maintaining the team's products.

Exciting projects you'll be working on!

• Research and implement ways to bring semantic AI into search, multiplying the search value. E.g. tuned to Seller specific contexts, inherently providing "translation" ability, understanding the question.
• Extracting the meaning of image content and slides and making them searchable, generating descriptions and so reducing the time customers spend on their daily jobs
• Grouping, generating and suggesting campaign materials
• Adding intelligence to content lifecycles and distribution, including insights and analytics
• Research how AI agents can help sellers more

Are you the right match?

• 5+ years of experience as backend engineer developing scalable, production-ready solutions
• Experience with Kotlin or Java-based coding languages
• Experience designing and implementing APIs for and collaborating with internal and public data consumers
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Understand the importance of strong software testing at every stage and can advocate for test-driven development
• Continuous integration and delivery mindset
• You like taking ownership of your projects and have a healthy curiosity to learn more.

Bonus points

• Experience with Typescript and/or Go
• Knowledge of AWS
• CMS domain expertise

Who are we?

Founded in 2011, Showpad is the world’s leading Enablement Operating System (eOS™). We align Sales and Marketing teams around impactful content and measurable engagement, enabling sellers to build unique buying experiences and continuously improve conversion rates. Sellers close more deals – faster – with Showpad.

With dual-headquarters in Ghent and Chicago, regional offices in London, Munich and Wroclaw, and remote hubs across the US and EMEA, Showpad is powered by a diverse global workforce of more than 550 people. Our employee value proposition centers around impact, purpose and belonging. Our culture is based on flexibility, trust and setting people up for success. At Showpad, we foster inclusion, innovate for impact and never stop to raise the bar. We take serious care of our people but never take ourselves too seriously.

What can you expect from us?

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.

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.