Senior Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems & AI Platform

SOFICO; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance

Company car

Private health insurance

Hybrid work

Onboarding coaching

Team events

Job summary

SOFICO, Ghent-based, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help build the distributed workflow platform connecting Miles with the SOFICO AI Cloud. You’ll tackle long-running business processes, ensuring reliability and scalability using Temporal, Java/Quarkus and Python.

From our Ghent office, we offer hybrid work, a competitive package, and a path to grow in AI-enabled software engineering with dedicated coaching and team events.

Qualifications

• Proven backend software engineering experience, ideally with Java or another modern backend language.
• Experience building distributed, asynchronous or event-driven systems in production.
• Solid understanding of designing reliable systems around failures, retries and state.
• Experience with microservices, APIs and automated testing.
• Experience with workflow/orchestration tech like Temporal, Camunda or Azure Durable Functions.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable distributed workflows that coordinate business-critical processes across Miles and the SOFICO AI Cloud
• Design resilient systems with retries, idempotency and failure recovery
• Develop integrations between our workflow platform, Java/Quarkus services and enterprise systems
• Build testing, monitoring and observability around long-running processes
• Help shape engineering standards and architecture of the new platform at the intersection of backend engineering and AI

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Async/event-driven

APIs

Testing & observability

Microservices

AI tooling curiosity

Tools

Temporal

Camunda

Conductor

Azure Durable Functions

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Quarkus

Java

Job description

Why SOFICO?

At SOFICO, we’re shaping the future of mobility — and we’re doing it together. Our software, Miles, is a leading platform that enables companies worldwide to manage their leasing, fleet and mobility operations in one integrated system.

Now we're expanding our Data & AI organisation and building the SOFICO AI Cloud, the platform underpinning the Miles Enterprise Agentic Platform.

From our office in Ghent, we're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help build the distributed workflow platform connecting our enterprise software with the next generation of AI-powered capabilities.

You’ll solve a particularly interesting engineering challenge: how do you make complex, long-running business processes continue reliably when services fail, networks go down or individual steps need to be retried?

You’ll use technologies such as Temporal, Java/Quarkus and Python to make these processes reliable, observable and scalable.

What You’ll Do...

• Build reliable distributed workflows that coordinate business-critical processes across Miles and the SOFICO AI Cloud
• Design systems that remain reliable when things go wrong, using techniques such as retries, idempotency, failure recovery and compensating actions
• Develop integrations between our workflow platform, Java/Quarkus services, AI components and enterprise systems
• Build strong testing, monitoring and observability around long-running business processes
• Help shape the engineering standards and architecture of a new platform at the intersection of backend engineering, distributed systems and Agentic AI
• Experience or genuine interest in AI-assisted software engineering: at SOFICO, we actively encourage engineers to bring AI tools (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) into every step of the product and software development lifecycle, from specification and planning through implementation and testing, and you should be eager to grow that practice with us

What You Bring...

• Strong professional experience in backend software engineering, ideally with Java or another modern backend language
• Experience building distributed, asynchronous or event-driven systems in production
• A good understanding of how to design reliable systems around failures, retries, state and transactions
• Experience with microservices, APIs and automated testing
• Experience with Temporal, Camunda, Conductor, Azure Durable Functions or another workflow/orchestration technology
• Experience with Java/Quarkus, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar event-driven technologies
• Experience with AI platforms, LangGraph, cloud platforms or enterprise/on-premise environments

What’s In It For You...

• Competitive salary package;
• Meal allowance provided per working day;
• Company car or mobility budget
• Fully covered private health insurance, so you can focus on what matters most;
• Hybrid working and flexible hours, giving you the freedom to shape your workday;
• A modern co-working space offering a comfortable working environment;
• From day one, you’ll be supported through a structured onboarding program, with guidance from a dedicated coach to help you get up to speed and grow in your role;
• And because strong teams go beyond day-to-day work, we regularly create opportunities to connect — from casual drinks to team activities and company-wide events

Ready to build the reliable workflow foundation behind the next generation of mobility software? Join SOFICO and let’s shape what’s next together!