# Backend Engineer, Communications Capture

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

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## Description

As a Backend Engineer, Communications Capture at Gong, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Gong's ecosystem. You will work with a team in our Dublin R&D hub on the Comms Capture team, which is responsible for Gong's core data pipeline that ingests and captures customer's interactions from external communication systems.

Responsibilities:

- Dive into core, complex, large-scale backend systems

- Implement new features, enhance existing capabilities, and resolve issues within a live, massive system without negatively impacting customers

- 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 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

Requirements:

- 5+ 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

- Ability to take ownership and drive projects forward independently

Perks & Benefits:

- Private health insurance plans

- Wellbeing Fund with flexible wellness stipend

- Mental Health benefits with covered therapy and coaching

- Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development

- Flexible vacation time

- Paid parental leave

- Company-wide recharge days each quarter

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- cloud technologies
- scalable SaaS solutions
- secure API design
- kafka
- SQS
- cloud platforms
- microservices architectures

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