Senior Backend Engineer

The role

You will lead the design and implementation of complex, scalable backend services and APIs. You will take end-to-end ownership of major product initiatives and establish engineering best practices.

What you will do

• Lead the design and implementation of complex, scalable, and high-performance backend services and APIs.
• Take end-to-end ownership of major product initiatives.
• Coordinate delivery across Backend, Frontend, and Product teams.
• Establish and drive team-level best practices for code quality, testing strategies, and CI/CD processes.
• Analyze and debug intricate challenges across the stack.
• Manage risks and coordinate dependencies between multiple teams.
• Implement preventive measures and high-performance solutions for scalability.
• Build the foundation for high-performance services.
• Elevate the team's technical bar through CI/CD and quality processes.
• Shape how major initiatives are executed.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale backend development.
• Strong emphasis on Java programming.
• Proven experience in mentoring engineers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Experience building scalable microservices architectures.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Nice to have

• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and building data-oriented applications and APIs.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Before you apply

• You must be eligible to work in Ireland.

About the company

Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system.