Senior Backend AI Engineer — Hybrid (Ghent, TypeScript)

Showpad; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Showpad in Ghent is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for AI-focused teams. You will help shape intelligent, AI-powered features, build serverless event-driven systems and APIs, and integrate with third-party services to deliver real value to users.

You’ll mentor colleagues, emphasize security-first design, and collaborate in an Agile environment to impact 100,000 users worldwide. The role is hybrid (2 days in the office) and requires strong TypeScript/Node.js skills, plus AWS experience and

Qualifications

• 5+ years developing scalable, production-ready backend systems.
• Experience with search and retrieval systems, vector search, semantic search.
• Experience with backend systems for AI/ML-powered products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI-powered features that leverage large language models to automate and enhance user workflows.
• Contribute to improving our development processes and environments.
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms and APIs.
• Help define, implement, and maintain our growing ecosystem of microservices.
• 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

Backend development

TypeScript

Node.js

Cloud architecture

Test-driven development

Agile teamwork

API design

Tools

AWS

Lambda

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

Bedrock

API Gateway

Job description

Showpad in Ghent is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for AI-focused teams. You will help shape intelligent, AI-powered features, build serverless event-driven systems and APIs, and integrate with third-party services to deliver real value to users.

You’ll mentor colleagues, emphasize security-first design, and collaborate in an Agile environment to impact 100,000 users worldwide. The role is hybrid (2 days in the office) and requires strong TypeScript/Node.js skills, plus AWS experience and