Software Engineer, Data & Analytics Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Showpad is the leading Sales Acceleration platform. We help sales to be 
more productive and marketing to have insights in sales interactions. We 
are a fast-growing, mobile first, SaaS company with offices in Ghent 
(Belgium), San Francisco (CA) and Portland (OR). More than 500 
businesses worldwide use our technology to accelerate their sales. 

We have been nominated as Ernst & Young's Most Promising Company of the Year 2014! 

Job Description

Showpad is looking for an excellent Data & Analytics Engineer to join the ranks.

We offer you:

  • Development
  • Design
  • Develop and maintain BI/Analytics/Reporting applications for customers and internal use
  • Provide leadership in developing analytical solutions to solve business problems through the design and programming
  • Collaborate on scalability and performance challenges
  • Suggest desired data transformation & sampling for better digestibility by analytics solutions
  • Proactively find ways to make Showpad better
  • Write code in any of Python/node.js/Ruby/PHP/Java
  • Build features with the most appropriate building blocks including MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, MySQ, ElasticSearch
  • Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from product management, interaction designers, and other engineers
  • Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • Bachelor degree or higher in a Computer Science oriented field of study, or equivalent through experience
  • Minimum 3 years of relevant developer experience
  • Minimum 2 years of relevant data mining/analytics/BI experience
  • Experience with web analytics
  • You know SQL and non relational databases inside out
  • You speak at least one of Python/node.js/Ruby/PHP/Java fluently
  • You have an instinct for data architecture and you communicate easily about it
  • You understand quality and how to keep quality standards high (test-driven development)
  • You have a solid understanding of the full web technology stack
  • Experience with or understanding of distributed systems (databases, messaging)
  • Experience with or understanding of an API-driven approach to software architecture


Desired:

  • Speak other system-level languages for tooling
  • Good understanding of OS concepts and internals of Linux, and practical shell scripting skills
  • Good written communication and documentation abilities

Additional Information

What we offer:

  • A competitive salary with extra benefits
  • Working at a great location in the center of Ghent
  • The opportunity to work for an exciting start-up conquering the world
  • A stimulating working environment, bright offices
  • Nice and passionate colleagues
  • Flexible hours
  • Endless supply of snacks, delicious fresh fruit and excellent coffee
  • Regular and fun team activities