Backend Engineer

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 a Backend Engineer, you’ll work on meaningful technical challenges and contribute to products that help companies better understand their customer interactions. You’ll join an experienced engineering team, develop your backend skills, and build reliable services using Java and modern software development practices.

You’ll Own

• Backend Development: Developing and maintaining backend services and features using Java within a microservices-based architecture.
• Feature Delivery: Working on well-defined tasks and features, from understanding requirements through implementation, testing, and delivery, with guidance from experienced engineers.
• Code Quality: Writing clean, maintainable, and reliable code while following team standards and best practices.
• Learning and Growth: Continuously developing your technical skills and gaining experience with new technologies, concepts, and products.
  
  

• Technical Challenges: Investigating, debugging, and resolving technical issues with support from experienced Software Engineers.
• Software Development: Applying software development fundamentals to build, test, and improve backend services.
• Collaborative Development: Working closely with Software Engineers and Product Managers to understand requirements and deliver high-quality product experiences.
  
  

• Product Development: Contributing to products that help companies better understand their customer interactions.
• System Reliability: Helping build backend services that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
• Team Success: Collaborating with talented engineers, sharing knowledge, asking questions, and contributing to a positive and high-performing engineering environment.
  
  

• BSc in Computer Science or Software Engineering – a must.
• 1–2 years of hands-on experience in Java development – an advantage.
• A solid understanding of software development fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and debugging.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability and motivation to learn new concepts and technologies quickly.
• A strong sense of responsibility and ownership over assigned tasks.
• Ability to work collaboratively with Software Engineers and Product Managers.
• We operate in a flexible hybrid work model.