Senior Back-end Developer

Syndicate; Town of Belgium (WI); On-site; USD 104,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Macbook 💻

Healthcare benefits plan 🏥

Membership to the Collective

Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) 📈

Meal vouchers 🍴

Annual company retreat 🎊

Free office snacks 🍰

Team drinks and events 🍺🎉

Job summary

A tech startup is seeking a Senior Back-end Developer to help build an AI-sales assistant named Donna. You will be responsible for designing architecture, optimizing data pipelines, and mentoring junior developers. With a focus on growth and innovation, this role provides impactful opportunities in a collaborative team environment. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience, be fluent in Typescript and Node.js, and be ready to work in the Ghent office. Competitive salary and great perks offered.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience building full stack applications.
• Experience with data pipelines and data architectures.
• Ability to break down big initiatives into small tasks.
• Experience or interest in data pipelines and data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the overall architecture of web applications.
• Scale and optimize voice-to-voice pipeline for real-time interactions.
• Mentor junior developers and champion best practices.
• Mentor junior developers and promote best practices.
• Experiment with new technologies to maximize stack potential.

Skills

Typescript

Node.js

AWS

data affinity

Startup culture

English fluency

Tools

Remix

Next.js

AWS

Remix

Next.js

Job description

As a Senior Back-end developer, you'll be a vital part of our team, working together to build Donna, our perfect AI-sales assistant for field sales reps. Donna empowers them to focus on what they do best - selling.

Expect to tackle diverse challenges in back-end engineering and integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into our products. Your objective will be to ensure our product remains scalable and performant, contributing to an optimal user experience.

If you're ready to embark on an exciting journey from the early days and make a significant impact in a growing team with global ambitions, Donna is the place for you!

What you’ll be doing

A non-exhaustive list of features we could use your help with:

• Design and implement the overall architecture of our web applications and integrations, ensuring they are responsive and maintain high-quality code standards.

• Adding support for new data source ingestion and assisting in maintaining clarity in our data layer.

• Scale and optimize our voice-to-voice pipeline to support real-time, low-latency interactions across multiple communication channels.

• Contribute to team growth by mentoring junior developers, reviewing pull requests, and championing best practices in architecture and development.

• Experiment with new technologies to get the most out of our stack.

• We believe in shipping fast to gather feedback quickly from our customers.

• We like to keep things simple, so we leverage as much as possible the services offered by key vendors.

• You’ll report directly to our CTO, but you’ll work together with other departments (and customers) in detailing the requirements of features and make trade-offs together in order to maximise value while minimising complexity.

• We’re looking for someone with at least 5 years of experience building full stack applications. You are fluent in Typescript, Node.js and AWS. Experience with meta-frameworks like Remix or Next.js is a plus.

• We have data-heavy back-end, so a good data affinity is important. Any experience with data pipelines and data architectures will be a big help.

• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment is a plus. It is important you can embrace the start-up culture. While we try to keep technical debt in check, there are times we need to ship quickly and make pragmatic tradeoffs.

• You’re able to break down big initiatives into small tasks, allowing for re-prioritization as important opportunities arise.

• We have global ambitions, so fluency in English is a must.

• Ability to work with us in the Ghent office; this is not a remote position.

What you can expect

• Impact: Be part of an early-stage rocket ship startup where your contributions directly shape the company’s success. We’re moving fast, with crazy clients already signing up, so every line of code and every idea you bring has immediate impact.

• Growth: Join a rocket ship at the scale-up stage: learn from seasoned entrepreneurs and grow your career as we expand globally. The speed at which we’re onboarding clients means you’ll learn more in months than most do in years.

• Culture: Join a collaborative and supportive team that values innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Ecosystem: As a part of the Donna team, you’ll become a part of the Ghent tech ecosystem, and a member of the StarApps and Wintercircus ecosystem.

Next to the above very awesome perks, we offer a competitive salary with the following benefits:

• Macbook 💻

• Healthcare benefits plan 🏥

• A membership to the Collective (Wintercircus)

• Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) 📈

• Meal vouchers 🍴

• Annual company retreat 🎊

• Free office snacks 🍰

• Team drinks and events (like teambuildings, dev days, our off-site hackathons) 🍺🎉