Senior Back-end Developer

As a Senior Backend Developer at Donna youll be a vital part of our team working together to build the AI copilot for sales teams and to empower them to focus on what they do best selling.

Expect to tackle a variety of challenges in backend engineering and integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into our products. Your objective will be to ensure our product remains scalable and performant contributing to an optimal user experience.

Youll join our ambitious Donna team as one of the first hires. This means youll have the opportunity to be part of an early stage startup and to learn from experienced serial entrepreneurs.

If youre ready to embark on an exciting journey from the early days and make a significant impact in a growing team with global ambitions Donna is the place for you!

Tasks

A nonexhaustive list of features we could use your help with:

• Design and implement the overall architecture of our web applications ensuring they are responsive and maintain highquality code standards.
• Building integration with LLM APIs and assisting in prompting to get the most out of our AI features.
• Implement logging and user tracking where we can we are hyperfocused on our users and we want to track as much as possible.
• Adding support for new data source ingestion and assisting in maintaining clarity in our data layer.
• Experiment with new technologies to get the most out of our stack.

We believe in shipping fast to gather feedback quickly from our customers. We focus more on building the right product than building the product right.

We like to keep things simple so we leverage as much as possible the services offered by key vendors.

Youll report directly to our cofounder & CTO but youll work together with other departments (and customers) in detailing the requirements of features and make tradeoffs together in order to maximize value while minimizing complexity.

Requirements

• Were looking for someone with at least 4 years of experience building full stack applications. You are fluent in Typescript Node.js and SQL. Experience with metaframeworks like Remix or Next.js is a plus.
• We have dataheavy backend so a good data affinity is important. Any experience with data pipelines and data architectures will be a big help.
• Having worked in another startup or scaleup is a plus. It is important you can embrace the startup culture. While we try to keep technical debt in check there are times we need to ship quickly and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Youre able to slice big initiatives in small chunks so we can reprioritize along the way in case important opportunities arise.
• You have strong problemsolving abilities and a gogetter mentality that embraces challenges.
• Collaboration is key for us so were looking for people that are fun to work with have a lot of expertise and are open to other peoples opinions.
• We have global ambitions so fluency in English is a must.

Benefits

• You will be able to work with super cool AI based and other state of the art tech that will change the world of SalesTech!
• As one of the first hires of Donna youll be able to witness our growth from the first row.
• As a part of the Donna team youll become a part of the Ghent tech ecosystem and a member of the StarApps ecosystem.

Next to the above very awesome perks we offer a competitive salary with the following benefits:

• Macbook Pro
• Fully paid phone subscription
• Healthcare benefits plan
• Meal vouchers
• Annual company retreat
• Free office snacks
• Team drinks and events

So...

Ready to join our rocket ship Get in touch with us via the application form!

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