Senior Backend Engineer

Gong Gong · Enterprise · Tel Aviv, Israel · Engineering

Gong is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs for their AI Operating System. The role involves end-to-end ownership of product initiatives, establishing engineering best practices, and ensuring system reliability and scalability. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of Java experience, cloud platform knowledge, and strong problem-solving skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leading the design and implementation of complex, scalable, and high-performance backend services and APIs.
  2. Taking end-to-end ownership of major product initiatives, from initial design to coordinating delivery across Backend, Frontend, and Product teams.
  3. Establishing and driving team-level best practices for code quality, testing strategies, and CI/CD processes.
  4. Analyzing and debugging intricate challenges across the stack to ensure long-term system reliability.
  5. Managing risks and coordinating dependencies between multiple teams to ensure seamless feature delivery.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale backend development
  • Java programming
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
  • building scalable microservices architectures

Nice to have

  • infrastructure as code
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • building data-oriented applications and APIs

What the JD emphasized

  • Java programming (a must)