Engineering Team Lead - Data Platform

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.

Gong is looking for a highly motivated Engineering Team Lead to join our exceptional R&D organization within the Data Platform group. This group manages Gong’s data layer and serves as the backbone of our data applications, analytics, and semantic layer, powering the most data-intensive aspects of Gong’s platform.

You’ll Own

Team Evolution & Mentorship: Leading and expanding a growing squad of backend and frontend engineers, while coaching and mentoring individuals to reach their full potential.

• Roadmap Partnership: Collaborating closely with Product Management to shape the team’s roadmap, ensuring the right balance between product milestones and engineering health.
• Hiring & Talent: Driving the hiring process to bring in top-tier talent and ensuring the successful onboarding and growth of new team members.
  
  

• Architectural Complexity: Designing and architecting long-term technical solutions that meet the demands of a large-scale enterprise platform.
• Priority Balancing: Navigating the tension between high-velocity product delivery and continuous optimization of the core application infrastructure.
• Process Bottlenecks: Leading by example to identify and resolve inefficiencies in the development lifecycle, driving continuous improvement across the team.
  
  

• Platform & Customer Success: Delivering high-impact technical solutions that directly improve the experience for Gong’s global customer base.
• Engineering Excellence: Setting the bar for coding standards, architectural integrity, and infrastructure reliability across the organization.
• Cultural Growth: Building a high-performing, empowered team culture that scales alongside the company’s ambitious growth goals.
  
  

• An experienced team leader (4+ years managing people) with a hands-on approach.
• A software development veteran with 10+ years of industry experience, focused on large-scale, cloud-based technologies.
• Proficiency in Java and related frameworks (an advantage).
• Experience with user-facing products and UI development (an advantage).
• A degree in computer science or a related field (preferred).
• Most importantly, a passion for motivating, mentoring, and developing team members.