Sales Engineer

Boam; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top tier compensation with meaningful

Equity participation

Direct work with top partners

Job summary

BoamAI builds managed data solutions that transform messy, unstructured signals into reliable enterprise intelligence. As a Sales Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and our partners like Uber Eats and Toast to scope pilots, support integrations, and ensure feedback shapes the product.

You will lead discovery, translate needs into API and data-feed specs, and coordinate across teams to keep pilots moving and measurable.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in a customer facing technical role.
• Experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or similar role.
• Worked with API integrations, data operations, and automation through scripting or SQL.
• Comfortable debugging APIs, security, and data flows.
• Strong communicator with both technical and non technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Partner with enterprise customers on pilots and early deployments.
• Lead technical discovery, solution design, and integration planning.
• Translate messy partner data needs into concrete API and data feed requirements.
• Support implementation work across APIs, data feeds, and CRM connections.
• Coordinate with product, engineering, and data teams on requirements and scope.
• Translate customer needs into clear tickets, specs, and follow ups.
• Build and maintain demo environments, sample data sets, and playbooks.
• Help design and track pilot success metrics and reporting views.
• Collect structured feedback from users and stakeholders during pilots.
• Troubleshoot issues across data, configuration, and integrations.
• Provide input into roadmap based on real customer use and impact.

Skills

API integrations

Data operations

SQL

SaaS

Communication

Job description

Lead pilots and integrations that turn top-tier partners into power users

BoamAI builds managed data solutions that transform messy, unstructured signals from public, private, and proprietary sources into structured, reliable, and always up-to-date intelligence on millions of SMBs and enterprises worldwide. These agentic systems power CRMs, data warehouses, AI products, and mission-critical decisions across the enterprise.

As a Sales Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and our top tier partners like Uber Eats and Toast. You will help scope and run pilots, support integrations and implementations, and make sure customer feedback turns into the right product and data improvements. This is a role for someone who is technical enough to dive into APIs and data, and commercial enough to sit with senior stakeholders and keep projects moving.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with enterprise customers on pilots and early deployments
• Lead technical discovery, solution design, and integration planning
• Translate messy partner data needs into concrete API and data feed requirements
• Support implementation work across APIs, data feeds, and CRM connections
• Coordinate with product, engineering, and data teams on requirements and scope
• Translate customer needs into clear tickets, specs, and follow ups
• Build and maintain demo environments, sample data sets, and playbooks
• Help design and track pilot success metrics and reporting views
• Collect structured feedback from users and stakeholders during pilots
• Troubleshoot issues across data, configuration, and integrations
• Provide input into roadmap based on real customer use and impact

You Might Be a Fit If...

• 3–6 years in a customer facing technical role
• Experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or similar role
• Worked with API integrations, data operations, and automation through scripting or SQL
• Comfortable debugging APIs, security, and data flows
• Strong communicator with both technical and non technical partners
• Able to run discovery, ask good questions, and map needs to solutions
• Experience with B2B SaaS, data products, or analytics platforms
• Enjoy working on pilots, proof of concepts, and first of kind projects
• Comfortable owning timelines and keeping multiple teams in sync
• Bias to ship, learn from usage, and refine quickly
• Motivated by solving real customer problems and seeing impact in the field

Why BoamAI

• Work directly with top tier partners like Uber Eats and Toast
• Join a no politics, high trust, low ego, high talent team
• Sit close to founders, product, and engineering on critical deals
• High autonomy, clear ownership, and visible impact from day one
• Operate at the intersection of AI, data, and enterprise workflows
• Top tier compensation with meaningful equity participation
• Help shape how we sell, implement, and expand our largest accounts

Our hiring process

Our process is fast, structured, and transparent — built to respect your time and surface real mutual fit

1. Brief call to meet and outline the role
2. Walk through past customer facing and technical work
3. Work through a Boam-style pilot and integration case
4. Align on values, ambition, and how we work together