Senior Backend Engineer - Collective

Want to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Gong’s ecosystem?
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Gong, you will design and build the infrastructure and interfaces that enable Gong to serve as the central hub for revenue teams. Your work will facilitate seamless integrations with third-party products, expanding Gong’s capabilities beyond our internally developed solutions.

This is a unique opportunity to work on impactful projects, leading large-scale integrations with strategic partners. If you excel at building scalable, secure APIs and enjoy collaborating across teams, we’d love to hear from you!

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud technologies.
• Develop and maintain integration infrastructure, enabling third-party applications to seamlessly connect with Gong and extend its functionality.
• Build generic, modular API interfaces that support a wide range of future use cases, ensuring flexibility and reusability.
• Enhance system security, ensuring that Gong’s external-facing capabilities are both powerful and secure.
• Collaborate with internal teams (Product, GTM, and other R&D groups) and external partners to develop solutions that align with business and customer needs.
• Take full ownership of features from design to production, ensuring reliability, maintainability, and performance.
• Contribute to the strategic vision for Gong’s integration ecosystem, thinking beyond short-term tactical solutions.

You should apply if you have:

• 10+ years of backend software development experience, with a strong foundation in Java and modern cloud-based architectures.
• Experience in both application and infrastructure development, with a deep understanding of scalable SaaS solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Java (Spring, etc.) and designing robust, maintainable APIs.
• Experience developing durable systems and using relevant technologies and techniques (kafka, SQS, etc.)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and building scalable microservices architectures.
• A solid understanding of secure API design and best practices for external integrations.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills- you'll work closely with partners, product teams, and developers across multiple organizations.
• Ability to take ownership and drive projects forward independently.

*We operate in a flexible hybrid work model.

What makes Engineering at Gong unique? 

Here at Gong, we trust and empower our employees with ownership to solve complex problems, make the right decisions, and build the best products that create radical impact. We call this “Own. Solve. Impact.”  For our engineers, it means it's not just about writing code. You are involved and able to influence the entire process to create the best product.

If you are curious to discover Gong's wonderful and challenging world, what are you waiting for? Don’t delay - fill in your application details. Who knows, maybe there’s a Gongster in you!

About us 

Gong transforms revenue organizations by driving business efficiency, revenue growth, and improved decision-making. The Revenue Intelligence Platform uses proprietary artificial intelligence technology to enable teams to capture, understand, and act on all customer interactions in a single, integrated platform. Thousands of companies around the world rely on Gong to support their go-to-market strategies and grow revenue efficiently.

Here at Gong, we encourage our employees to express their personality and identity (whether gender, ethnic, religious, or sexual), and we ensure fairness and equal opportunities. We follow a hybrid working model that combines working from home, on the go, or at the office. This allows us: flexibility, autonomy, positive work relationships, and effective work habits.

If these considerations are important to you when choosing a work place, we'd love to see you with us.

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