Software Engineer, Backend

Location Qualifications: This role is available for hybrid work (2 days in office) from our office in Bucharest. About the position As a Backend Engineer, you’ll be pivotal in crafting innovative solutions that transform the creation, organization, and distribution of sales content. Catering to Sales Enablement specialists and Marketing Content Owners, you’ll harness cutting-edge technologies to continuously elevate our platform, maximizing its impact on our users. Your role will involve not just expanding and refining our codebase, but also driving innovation for new features. You’ll take full ownership, writing functional, automated, and scalable code that operates seamlessly within our cloud infrastructure and is efficiently monitored. Key Responsibilities Develop high-throughput, maintainable backend services and API integrations using Node.js, TypeScript , or Go. Design cloud-native microservices and serverless workflows optimized for resilience, speed, and cost efficiency. Take features from design and technical RFCs through development, automated testing, CI/CD, and production deployment. Lead impactful code reviews, mentor teammates, and refine operational standards like observability, telemetry, and alerting. Identify bottlenecks across storage, databases, and network layers to keep platform latency minimal as we scale. Required Skills 3+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade backend systems. Strong proficiency in at least one modern language/runtime: TypeScript, Node.js, or Go. Experience architecting and deploying services on AWS (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, RDS). Practical understanding of distributed systems, API design (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), caching strategies, and telemetry (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.). Strong commitment to automated testing (unit, integration, e2e) and continuous deployment practices. Excellent asynchronous communication skills and a preference for building iteratively in agile environments. Company Highlights: Welcome to the new era of revenue effectiveness. The merger of Showpad and Bigtincan is creating the first AI-powered platform to strengthen the entire field selling motion. By unifying two industry-acclaimed solutions for content, readiness, engagement, and intelligence into a single operating system, we are delivering unrivaled scale and accelerated growth for our 2,000+ combined customers worldwide, including leaders in manufacturing (Dow, Dupont), healthcare (Fujifilm, Kaiser Permanente, Johnson&Johnson), CPG (Smucker’s, Mitsubishi, Stanley Black & Decker), and enterprise tech (HID, CultureAmp, LastPass). Acclaimed by analysts and adored by customers, we’re recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ Revenue Enablement Platforms, honored by Gartner as a Customers’ Choice in Revenue Enablement Platforms, and, together, endorsed by nearly 3,000 5-star customer reviews on G2. United, we’re focused on powering the next generation of field selling success through a more holistic engine that creates lasting value for our customers and a new vision for our category. Discover the revenue team outcomes we’re driving together at showpad.com.