Workflow Platform Engineer – Temporal

Location: Zwijnaarde, East Flanders, Belgium

Department: Product

• Design, build and operate durable workflows in Temporal that execute business-critical sagas across the Miles and SOFICO AI Cloud ecosystems.
• Make workflows resilient through idempotency, retries, back-off strategies, compensating transactions and reliable failure recovery.
• Ensure every execution is traceable and auditable by implementing strong workflow logging, observability, security and operational controls.
• Build reliable integrations between Temporal, the AI Cloud components and the Miles environments they control, across disparate topologies (SaaS, Private Cloud, On-Prem). 
• Define engineering standards and testing practices for durable execution while sharing your expertise with engineers across the Data & AI team.

• Strong senior-level backend or distributed-systems engineering experience in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with a durable workflow or orchestration engine such as Temporal, Camunda, Conductor, Azure Durable Functions or a comparable technology.
• A solid understanding of saga patterns, compensating transactions, idempotency, retry mechanisms and event-driven architectures.
• Strong development skills in Java and/or Python, combined with experience testing and observing long-running, stateful workflows.

• Production experience with Temporal.
• Experience with Java, Quarkus, Python or agentic frameworks such as LangGraph.
• Experience operating workflow platforms in enterprise, regulated, client-hosted or on-premise environments.

• Competitive salary package;
• Meal allowance provided per working day;
• Company car or mobility budget
• Fully covered private health insurance, so you can focus on what matters most;
• Hybrid working and flexible hours, giving you the freedom to shape your workday;
• A modern co-working space offering a comfortable working environment;
• From day one, you’ll be supported through a structured onboarding program, with guidance from a dedicated coach to help you get up to speed and grow in your role;
• And because strong teams go beyond day-to-day work, we regularly create opportunities to connect — from casual drinks to team activities and company-wide events.