Software Engineer Backend

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 Software Engineer Backend you will help shape the future of the Showpad product by maintaining the core functionalities and APIs of the Showpad platform. You’ll be responsible for helping drive technical and product decisions based on your expertise. You will coach and mentor junior team members. Rather than a monolithic environment, you will help develop an ecosystem of services, as you identify and isolate parts of the system to increase reliability and promote quality. 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 for all our customers.

Open for remote hiring in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, France or United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities for a Software Engineer Backend at Showpad: 

• Support and improve the Training and Coaching product of the Showpad platform
• Contribute to improving our development processes and environments
• Collaborate with the team to define, implement, and maintain our growing ecosystem of microservices
• Work with internal and external API consumers in an API-first environment
• Excel in software teams where code reviews and pair programming are part of our strong engineering culture
• Apply a security-first approach to implementing features and changes
• Collaborate together with Product Management and other stakeholders (Frontend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features within the Showpad product
• Focus on the bigger picture because everything you do will have an impact on 100,000 users globally

Your qualification

• Experience developing scalable, production-ready, backend code using JVM-based languages and frameworks
• Solid working experience of a modern server framework such as Micronaut or Spring Boot
• Experience working in a cloud environment 
• Experience containerizing and deploying cloud-native applications and services 
• Experience in, or strong desire to learn, Kotlin
• Understanding the importance of strong software testing at every stage
• Continuous integration and delivery mindset
• Experience designing and implementing APIs for, and collaborating with, internal and/or public data consumers
• Team player mentality, committed to the whole software development life cycle in an agile team

Will be a plus

• Knowledge of AWS core services
• Kubernetes experience
• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and microservices migration

What we offer

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.