# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company**: Gong
**Location**: Dublin
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Gong, you will join a company built on innovative products, ambitious goals, and passionate people.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll dive into complex technical challenges, craft innovative solutions, and play a pivotal role in Gong's mission to revolutionize the way companies understand their customer interactions.

## You'll Own:

- System Architecture: Leading the design and implementation of complex, scalable, and high-performance backend services and APIs.

- Feature Lifecycle: Taking end-to-end ownership of major product initiatives, from initial design to coordinating delivery across Backend, Frontend, and Product teams.

- Engineering Standards: Establishing and driving team-level best practices for code quality, testing strategies, and CI/CD processes.

## You'll Solve:

- Technical Complexity: Analyzing and debugging intricate challenges across the stack to ensure long-term system reliability.

- Cross-Functional Friction: Managing risks and coordinating dependencies between multiple teams to ensure seamless feature delivery.

- Scalability Bottlenecks: Implementing preventive measures and high-performance solutions to keep services running smoothly under load.

## You'll Impact:

- System Integrity: Building the foundation for high-performance services that directly affect the stability and speed of the entire product.

- Operational Excellence: Elevating the team's technical bar through the implementation of robust CI/CD and quality processes.

- Strategic Delivery: Shaping how major initiatives are executed, ensuring technical excellence is balanced with business milestones.

## How You'll Succeed Here:

- 7+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale backend development, with a strong emphasis on Java programming (a must).

- Proven experience in mentoring engineers.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug and resolve complex technical issues efficiently.

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and building scalable microservices architectures.

- Advantageous experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and building data-oriented applications and APIs.

- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to articulate technical ideas clearly and collaborate effectively within a team environment.

- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

*We operate in a flexible hybrid work model. You must be eligible to work in Ireland.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- cloud platforms
- microservices architectures
- infrastructure as code
- CI/CD pipelines

### Nice to have
- data-oriented applications
- APIs
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

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