Senior Software Engineer, Backend Developer

About Showpad

Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers by integrating industry leading training and coaching software with innovative content solutions. Using the most comprehensive data on successful sales interactions, Showpad fuels Artificial Intelligence to discover, replicate and automate what works for top performers.

Showpad serves more than 1,000 customers across the globe, including Johnson & Johnson, BASF, GE Healthcare, Fujifilm, Bridgestone, Prudential, Honeywell and Merck. Founded in 2011, the company has headquarters in Ghent and Chicago with offices in London, Munich, San Francisco and Portland. To learn more about Showpad, visit www.showpad.com or follow Showpad on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Position

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will shape the future of the Showpad product as you will maintain the core functionalities and API's of the Showpad platform. Rather than a monolithic environment you will develop an ecosystem of services. Your decisions will not only have an impact on the way we build our product in a test-driven environment but also on the end-user experience of all our customers.

Key responsibilities as a Senior Backend Engineer at Showpad

• Analyze and execute architectural improvements
• Improve the Showpad product by detecting flaws and adding monitoring across our wide userbase
• You will do research and development by experimenting with and implementing the latest technologies in one of the most faced-paced areas in software engineering
• Team up on projects and coach and learn good practices
• Mastering Kanban and having regular focus meetings
• Having lots of fun with your passionate developer colleagues!

Your qualification

• + 5 years of relevant experience in delivering highly complex software solutions/products
• The ability to share knowledge and coach team members
• An instinct for software architecture and experience in optimising this
• Experience with backend MVC frameworks (PHP, Node.JS, Rails, Java, ASP.net,...)
• Great understanding of quality and how to improve quality processes
• Solid comprehension of the full web technology stack
• Good understanding of database design concepts
• A passionate, maximum impact mentality
• The will to have a maximum impact on Showpad
• The desire to grow yourself, your team and the company

What we offer

Focus on Impact and Growth

We are building the future in sales and marketing where every sales person is successful. As an international scale-up, we aim for yearly double digit growth that opens many opportunities. We want people who thrive in a fast-paced, performance-driven company, who are not afraid to stretch themselves in a fun environment, and focus on impact and growth.