Backend Engineer at Gong.io

Want to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Gong’s ecosystem?
As a Backend Engineer at Gong, you will design and build the infrastructure and interfaces that enable Gong to serve as the central hub for revenue teams. Your work will facilitate seamless integrations with third-party products, expanding Gong’s capabilities beyond our internally developed solutions.

This is a unique opportunity to work on impactful projects, leading large-scale integrations with strategic partners. If you excel at building scalable, secure APIs and enjoy collaborating across teams, we’d love to hear from you!

As a  Backend Engineer, you will:

• 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 (Product, GTM, and other R&D groups) 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, thinking beyond short-term tactical solutions.

You should apply if you have:

• 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- you'll work closely with partners, product teams, and developers across multiple organizations.
• Ability to take ownership and drive projects forward independently.

What makes Engineering at Gong unique? 

Here at Gong, we trust and empower our employees with ownership to solve complex problems, make the right decisions, and build the best products that create radical impact. We call this “Own. Solve. Impact.”  For our engineers, it means it's not just about writing code. You are involved and able to influence the entire process to create the best product.

About us 

Gong empowers everyone in revenue teams to improve productivity, increase predictability, and drive revenue growth by deeply understanding customers and business trends; driving impactful decisions and actions. The Gong Revenue AI Platform captures and contextualizes customer interactions, surfaces insights and predictions, and powers actions and workflows that are essential for business success. More than 4,500 companies around the world rely on Gong to unlock their revenue potential. For more information, visit www.gong.io.