--- title: 'Software Engineer, Backend at Showpad' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-backend-showpad-bucharest-2c02fr6ny5nc' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # Software Engineer, Backend at Showpad - **Company:** Showpad - **Location:** Bucharest, Romania - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/showpad/jobs/8132245 ## Job description 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](https://www.showpad.com/reports/forrester-wave-leader-2024) Wave™ Revenue Enablement Platforms, honored by [Gartner](https://www.showpad.com/reports/gartner-voice-of-the-customer-2024) 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](http://showpad.com/). ## About Showpad ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Showpad provides an AI-native revenue effectiveness platform that unites content management, sales readiness, buyer engagement, and analytics for field-selling organizations. - **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Vector Capital and merged with Bigtincan in 2025) - **Headquarters**: Dual-headquartered in Chicago, Illinois (USA) and Ghent, Belgium - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Not publicly available (founded in Ghent, Belgium) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Revenue Enablement, Sales Technology, Content Management, AI-Powered Sales Platforms - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, field-selling organizations in regulated and complex industries - **Mission or purpose statement**: To empower revenue teams to sell smarter, faster, and together by connecting the human side of field selling with the intelligence of AI. ## Products & Services - **Showpad Platform (GenieAI-powered)**: An AI-native revenue effectiveness platform that combines content management, sales readiness training, buyer engagement tools, and analytics. The platform is designed for field sellers and includes GenieAI, an engine that provides verified content, real-time coaching, and actionable insights. - **Sales Readiness**: Tools for learning, practice, and real-time coaching to prepare sellers for customer conversations. - **Content Management**: A content engine that delivers the right spec sheets, pricing, and proof points to sellers to close deals. - **Buyer Engagement**: Features that bring physical products to life with digital demos and collaborative deal rooms to keep buying committees engaged. - **Analytics & Insights**: Question-based analytics (Analytics AI) that allows users to ask natural language questions to surface data and identify patterns behind top performers and high-converting content. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company, acquired by Vector Capital) - **Key Metric**: Over 2,000 global companies rely on Showpad; customers in 50+ locations; employees in 7 countries - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Vector Capital (acquired Showpad and merged it with Bigtincan in 2025) - **Growth Signals**: Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Revenue Enablement Platforms; recognized as a Customers’ Choice in Revenue Enablement platforms by the Gartner® Peer Insights™ report; named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Sales Readiness and Revenue Enablement Solutions; launched GenieAI and multiple AI features including Showpad Assist (an AI agent for field sales) and Analytics AI. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native platform**: GenieAI is purpose-built for field-selling, using trusted first-party data to provide verified content, real-time coaching, and insights. - **Category creator**: Showpad defined the "revenue effectiveness" category and is positioned as a standard for complex, field-selling organizations. - **Merger with Bigtincan**: The combination of Showpad and Bigtincan (both acquired by Vector Capital) created a larger, more comprehensive platform with a global footprint. - **Focus on regulated industries**: Accuracy and verified content are critical differentiators for companies in regulated sectors. - **75+ pre-configured integrations and open API**: Flexibility to fit into existing workflows. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-first innovation**: Continued investment in AI features like GenieAI, Showpad Assist, and Analytics AI to streamline seller workflows and improve revenue outcomes. - **Field-selling specialization**: Deep focus on the needs of field sellers and complex B2B sales cycles, differentiating from general sales enablement tools. - **Global expansion**: Dual headquarters in Chicago and Ghent, with offices in London, Bucharest, and Pune, India, and a presence in 7 countries. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasizes transparency, inclusion, and innovation. Described as a safe, welcoming, and inspiring environment where employees can realize their full potential. - **Global & diverse team**: 1,675+ employees (Showpadders) representing 50+ nationalities, with offices in the US, Belgium, UK, Romania, India, and Australia. - **Benefits**: Robust medical and mental health resources, transportation benefits, financial savings options, generous leave policy, and equitable reward policies (performance-based and spotlight rewards). - **Learning & development**: Strong focus on growth with learning and development resources. - **Work environment**: Hybrid/office presence across multiple global locations. The company values work-life balance ("We love our work. But there’s more to life."). - **Engineering culture**: Opportunities for engineers to work on a modern AI-native platform with a focus on data intelligence, knowledge graphs, and product management. ## Sources 1. [showpad.com](https://www.showpad.com/) 2. [showpad.com/careers](https://www.showpad.com/careers) 3. [showpad.com/about-us](https://www.showpad.com/about-us) 4. [showpad.com/company/about-us/our-history](https://www.showpad.com/company/about-us/our-history) 5. 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