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 through industry-leading training and coaching software and innovative sales content and engagement solutions. 

At Showpad, personalities and cultures connect across oceans to create something extraordinary. As a top 10 software company in the Inc. 5,000 Europe list, Showpad is changing the game when it comes to sales enablement. Our employees create the engagement and impact that drives our success as we expand globally.

In the morning, we’re drinking San Francisco cold brew coffee with a side of Portland doughnuts – English scones for afternoon tea, and in the evening we’re toasting success with Belgian tripel Westmalle to a Chicago house tune.

About the position

As a Senior Backend Engineer, 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.

Key Responsibilities of a Senior Backend Engineer at Showpad

• Maintain and improve the Training and Coaching product of the Showpad platform
• Contribute to improving our development processes and environments
• Help define, implement, and maintain our growing ecosystem of microservices
• Work with internal and external API consumers in an API-first environment
• Work in software teams where code reviews and pair programming are part of our strong engineering culture
• Take a security-first approach to implementing features and changes
• Collaborate with and mentor less experienced engineers on best practices and architectures
• Have a strong eye on the bigger picture because everything you do will have an impact on 100,000 users globally

Skills and Qualifications we are looking for

• 5+ years developing scalable, production-ready, backend code using JVM-based languages and frameworks
• Strong working knowledge of a modern server framework such as Micronaut or Spring Boot
• Experience working in a cloud environment. Knowledge of AWS core services is a plus
• Experience containerizing and deploying cloud-native applications and services. AWS and Kubernetes experience is a plus
• Experience in, or strong desire to learn, Kotlin
• Understanding the importance of strong software testing at every stage and an advocate for test-driven development
• Comfortable analyzing, estimating, and prioritizing complex projects
• Ability to model data and queries around feature requirements with an emphasis on performance and scalability. Experience working in a tenant database environment is a plus
• Continuous integration and delivery mindset
• Experience designing and implementing APIs for, and collaborating with, internal and/or public data consumers
• Experience with data-streaming services, such as Kafka or Kinesis, is a plus
• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and microservices migration is a plus
• Team player mentality, committed to the whole software development life cycle in an agile team

What you can expect from Showpad

Focus on Impact and Growth

We are building the future in sales and marketing where every salesperson 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.