Engineering Team Lead - Email Processing & Smart Trackers

Ready to lead one of Gong’s most impactful platform teams?

Join us as an Engineering Team Lead in our AI Platform division — the force behind intelligent email processing, AI-powered conversation insights, and robust data compliance systems that power applications used by thousands of companies.

In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of scalable infrastructure, machine learning innovation, and privacy-first engineering — leading a high-performing team to tackle complex challenges in communication intelligence and data governance. If you’re passionate about driving technical excellence and building the foundation for Gong’s core experiences, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

As The Engineering Team Lead, You Will

• Lead and expand a growing team of backend and frontend engineers.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Manager to shape the team’s roadmap, balancing both product goals and engineering priorities.
• Lead by example, driving continuous improvement and optimization of our core application infrastructure.
• Design and architect long-term technical solutions that deliver a significant impact on both our wide platform and customers.
• Own a critical, high-load system at the heart of Gong’s operations — combining advanced AI capabilities with exceptional speed and efficiency.
• Coach, mentor, hire, and grow individuals on the team to reach their full potential.
  
  

You Should Apply If You Are

• An experienced team leader (3+ years managing people) with a hands-on approach.
• A software developer with 8+ years of industry experience, focusing on large-scale, cloud-based technologies.
• Proficiency in Java and Spring framework.
• Experience with user-facing products and UI development (advantage).
• Experience with ElasticSearch or OpenSearch (advantage).
• Experience with relational databases (advantage).
• Experience with queue systems like SQS or Kafka (advantage).
• Holding a degree in computer science or a similar field (preferred).
• A passion for motivating, mentoring, and developing team members.
  
  

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.

If you are curious to discover Gong's wonderful and challenging world, what are you waiting for? Don’t delay - fill in your application details. Who knows, maybe there’s a Gongster in you!

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.

Here at Gong, we encourage our employees to express their personality and identity (whether gender, ethnic, religious, or sexual), and we ensure fairness and equal opportunities. We follow a hybrid working model that combines working from home, on the go, or at the office. This allows us: flexibility, autonomy, positive work relationships, and effective work habits.

If these considerations are important to you when choosing a work place, we'd love to see you with us.

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