Engineering Architect, Foundation Group

Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world's most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph, AI-powered intelligence, specialized agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 5,000 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical sales workflows, and close more deals with less effort. For more information, visit www.gong.io.

At Gong, you will join a company built on innovative products, ambitious goals, and passionate people. We are shaping the future of revenue intelligence and we want people who are excited to build what comes next. You will work with a team that dreams big, moves fast, and cares deeply about the craft and about each other. Here, transparency and trust are core to how we operate, and every person has the opportunity to make a visible impact. If you want to grow, stretch, and do work that truly matters, Gong is the place to do the best work of your career.

As an Architect in the Foundation group at Gong, you will play a central role in shaping the technical direction across some of our most critical domains, including Mobile, User Journey, Conversation Management, and Shared Components.

This is a highly hands-on role that combines deep technical contribution with broad architectural influence. You will work closely with multiple teams, embedding yourself where needed to understand real challenges, guide design decisions, and help build scalable, extensible systems.

You'll Own:
Group-Wide Technical Leadership: Act as a central technical leader across the Foundation group, partnering with multiple teams to shape architecture and execution.
Hands-On Engineering Across Domains: Embed within different teams as needed, contributing directly to design and implementation to deeply understand system constraints and opportunities.
Scalable & Extensible Architecture: Guide teams in designing systems that are scalable, maintainable, and built for long-term evolution, ensuring alignment across domains.
Technical Mentorship & Standards: Mentor engineers across the group, promoting best practices, improving design quality, and raising the overall engineering bar.
AI Development Enablement: Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development practices, helping teams integrate modern tooling to improve velocity and quality.
Cross-Team Alignment Without Authority: Influence technical direction across teams through strong communication, credibility, and collaboration rather than formal ownership.
You'll Solve:
Ambiguous, Cross-Team Challenges: Navigate and bring clarity to loosely defined problems that span multiple teams and domains, helping teams converge on effective solutions.
Scalability & System Evolution: Identify and address architectural gaps early, ensuring systems can scale and evolve without creating long-term friction or rework.
Inconsistent Patterns Across Teams: Recognize divergence in design and implementation approaches, and guide teams toward aligned, reusable, and maintainable solutions.
Technical Blind Spots: Proactively uncover risks, inefficiencies, or design flaws by embedding within teams and understanding their systems in depth.
Developer Productivity & Velocity: Help teams remove bottlenecks, adopt better development practices, and leverage AI-assisted tools to improve efficiency and code quality.
Balancing Speed vs. Quality: Support teams in making pragmatic decisions that balance immediate delivery needs with long-term architectural health.
You'll Impact:
Engineering Excellence Across the Group: Elevate the technical bar across all teams by improving design quality, development practices, and engineering standards.
Stronger, More Independent Teams: Help engineers grow through hands-on mentorship and guidance, enabling teams to make better technical decisions autonomously.
Consistency at Scale: Drive alignment in architecture and development approaches across teams, reducing duplication and enabling faster, more reliable delivery.
Faster, Smarter Execution: Improve development velocity by helping teams adopt better workflows, modern tooling, and AI-assisted development practices.
Long-Term System Health: Ensure that short-term decisions do not compromise the long-term scalability and maintainability of the platform.
How You'll Succeed:
Extensive Backend Experience: 10+ years of backend software development, with strong expertise in Java and modern backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot).
Proven Staff+ Experience: Demonstrated success operating as a Staff / Principal Engineer or equivalent, working across multiple teams and influencing technical direction beyond direct ownership.
Hands-On and Versatile: Comfortable diving into different codebases and domains, contributing directly where needed while maintaining a high-level architectural perspective.
Deep System Design Expertise: Strong experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Influence Without Authority: Exceptional ability to lead through collaboration, communication, and credibility, driving alignment across teams with different priorities.
Mentorship & Technical Leadership: Passion for mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and promoting best practices across teams.
Adaptability & Context Switching: Ability to operate effectively across multiple teams and problem spaces, quickly building context and identifying high-impact opportunities.
Forward-Thinking Mindset: Interest in exploring and driving adoption of modern development practices, including AI-assisted development and productivity tools.
Strong Communication Skills: Ability to clearly articulate complex technical ideas and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders

*We operate in a flexible hybrid work model.

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.

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