Senior AI-Backend Engineer | Hybrid Ghent

Showpad; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Showpad in Ghent is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build AI-powered backend features and orchestrate a scalable, event-driven microservices ecosystem. You’ll work on serverless architectures and API integrations, contributing to product decisions and system reliability.

The role involves collaborating in an agile team, code reviews, and mentoring peers. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in scalable backend systems, strong TypeScript/Node.js skills, and an interest in AI/LLM integration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years developing scalable backend systems.
• Experience with search and retrieval systems, vector search, semantic search.
• Experience with AI/ML-powered backend products is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js; JVM languages a plus.
• Interest in AI/LLM integration and prompt engineering.
• Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven systems (MQs, state machines).
• Experience with AWS and services like Lambda, DynamoDB, Bedrock, OpenSearch, API Gateway.
• Advocate for test-driven development and strong testing at all stages.
• Ability to model data and queries for performance and scalability.
• CI/CD mindset and agile collaboration.
• Experience designing APIs for internal/public data consumers.
• Team-oriented, SDLC participation in agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI-powered features that leverage LLMs to automate workflows.
• Contribute to improving development processes and environments.
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms and APIs.
• Define, implement, and maintain our microservices ecosystem.
• Participate in code reviews and pair programming within a strong engineering culture.
• Take a security-first approach to implementing features and changes.
• Mentor less experienced engineers on best practices and architectures.
• Impact 100,000 users globally with thoughtful, scalable solutions.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Cloud computing

Microservices

Test-driven development

API design

Mentoring

AI/LLM integration

Tools

AWS

Lambda

DynamoDB

Bedrock

OpenSearch

API Gateway

Job description

Showpad in Ghent is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build AI-powered backend features and orchestrate a scalable, event-driven microservices ecosystem. You’ll work on serverless architectures and API integrations, contributing to product decisions and system reliability.

The role involves collaborating in an agile team, code reviews, and mentoring peers. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in scalable backend systems, strong TypeScript/Node.js skills, and an interest in AI/LLM integration.