Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Backend engineering roles that sit at the integration layer are increasingly central in SaaS, where product value often depends on how well a platform connects to the rest of a customer’s stack. This position focuses on the Engage platform’s infrastructure and interfaces, placing it in the part of the ecosystem where API design, reliability, and partner connectivity directly shape adoption across revenue teams.
For a SaaS career, the work maps closely to durable platform skills: designing modular APIs, building integration infrastructure, and treating security as a first-class product constraint. The remit spans feature delivery and foundational systems, offering experience that transfers across SaaS companies building extensible products—particularly those operating with microservices, cloud services, and event-driven components.
This role tends to suit engineers who prefer ownership from design through production and who like collaborating across product, go-to-market, and external partners without losing depth in backend craft. It’s a strong match for professionals who want their technical decisions to influence how other teams—and third-party developers—build on top of a SaaS platform, in a hybrid working model anchored in Dublin.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Want to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Gong’s Engage ecosystem?
As a Backend Engineer at Gong for our Engage platform, you will design and build the infrastructure & interfaces that enable Engage to serve as the central hub for revenue teams. You will work on new product features, seamless integrations with third-party products and expand Gong’s capabilities.
This is a unique opportunity to work on impactful projects, leading large-scale integrations with a collaborative and skilled team. Your colleagues in other teams are also your end users! If you excel at building Scalable products, Secure APIs from the ground up and enjoy collaborating across teams (hybrid & flexible 3 days in our Dame St. office), we’d love to hear from you!
NOTE: This position is a hybrid-based role (Dublin office 3 days a week and remote 2 days)
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.
Perks & Benefits
- We offer Gongsters a variety of private health insurance plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs.
- Wellbeing Fund - flexible wellness stipend to support a healthy lifestyle.
- Mental Health benefits with covered therapy and coaching.
- Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development.
- Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend.
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family.
- Company-wide recharge days each quarter.
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, visitwww.gong.io.
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