Location Qualifications:
Ghent (hybrid, 2 days in the office)

About the position

As a Staff Data/Backend Engineer on the Data Fabric team, you will be instrumental in building and evolving our customer-facing analytics and reporting platform. You'll architect the data infrastructure that powers embedded reporting dashboards used by thousands of customers globally—ensuring multi-tenant isolation, low-latency queries, and enterprise-grade reliability.

You will work across our data mesh ecosystem, designing event-driven ingestion pipelines, building dimensional data models with dbt, and enabling self-service analytics through modern visualization tools like Luzmo and QuickSight. Your work will directly impact how our customers understand and optimize their sales enablement programs.

What You’ll Do

• Build Customer-Facing Data Infrastructure: Design and implement the backend services that power embedded analytics dashboards, ensuring tenant isolation, query performance, and SLA compliance for customer-facing workloads.
• Architect Data Pipelines: Own the data flow from activity capturing through bronze/silver/gold layers using dbt-athena and dbt-clickhouse, implementing star schemas and dimensional models optimized for analytical queries.
• Develop Serverless Backend Services: Build and maintain TypeScript Lambda functions that handle analytics APIs, reporting endpoints, and event-driven data processing workflows.
• Drive Platform Evolution: Contribute to the transition toward Apache Iceberg table formats and high-performance analytics engines (Clickhouse), ensuring cost-efficiency and query performance at scale.
• Enable Team Autonomy: Create reusable dbt models, data contracts, and documentation that empower product teams to build their own gold-tier analytics models with confidence.
• Ensure Data Quality & Governance: Implement data contracts, schema evolution strategies, and lineage tracking to maintain our data as a trusted source of truth.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Product, Frontend, and Platform teams to translate business requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years developing production backend systems with 3+ years focused on data engineering or analytics infrastructure
• Strong TypeScript/Node.js or Python proficiency with experience building serverless, event-driven systems on AWS (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge)
• Data modeling expertise: Good knowledge of Kimball star-schema and dimensional modeling; you know when to denormalize for performance
• dbt experience: Hands-on experience with dbt for data transformation, testing, and documentation
• SQL mastery: Expert-level SQL skills with experience optimizing queries for analytical workloads (Athena, Clickhouse, or similar)
• Multi-tenant architecture experience: Understanding of tenant isolation patterns, row-level security, and customer-facing data systems
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience with CDK, CloudFormation (or Terraform) for defining cloud infrastructure
• DataOps mindset: Strong advocate for CI/CD, automated testing, data quality checks, and observability in data pipelines
• Communication skills: Ability to explain complex data architecture trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Experience with Apache Iceberg or comparable table formats (e.g. Delta Table)
• Clickhouse optimization and query tuning
• Embedded analytics BI platforms (Luzmo, QuickSight, Sisense)
• Lake Formation and fine-grained access control of data lakes
• Event capturing and streaming experience at scale (Kinesis, Kafka)

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.

What you can expect from Showpad

We welcome every voice and are committed to building a truly inclusive environment where your differences are not just welcomed, they are celebrated. We’re building a best-in-class experience for our employees and are always identifying opportunities to encourage our team to be their authentic selves. Whether that’s paid parental leave, paid holidays (including Juneteenth and paid time off to vote), paid time off to volunteer at non-profit organizations, personal development opportunities or professional stretch assignments, you can expect Showpad to support you.

Showpad’s Commitment

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organization and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other dimensions of identity.

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