Senior Backend Engineer

Gong Gong · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland · Engineering

Senior Backend Engineer role at Gong, a company focused on AI for revenue intelligence. The role involves designing and implementing scalable backend services and APIs, owning the feature lifecycle, and establishing engineering standards. It requires strong Java experience, cloud platform knowledge, and problem-solving skills. The company emphasizes ownership, impact, and innovation in its engineering culture.

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.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale backend development
  • Java programming
  • Mentoring engineers
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Debugging complex technical issues
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
  • Building scalable microservices architectures
  • Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • Java programming (a must)