Sr Software Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Software Engineer is a core individual contributor on one of three Scrum teams in Gartner’s Peer Community product organization within Digital Product Technology. The role owns feature delivery end-to-end, contributes to technical design, and helps improve the team’s quality and capabilities. Gartner Peer Community is a peer-driven platform where verified enterprise leaders connect to share knowledge, ask questions, and provide feedback that informs technology and business decisions. The engineer designs, builds, and maintains features across web and backend platforms, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and maintainability. The role collaborates with Product, Design, engineering leaders, and DevOps to refine requirements, deliver stories and epics, support production systems, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools. The position is based near Gartner’s Irving, Texas or Stamford, Connecticut Centers of Excellence in a flexible, hybrid work environment.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience building production systems, including substantial end-to-end system design and delivery experience.
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) for backend development and React/Next.js for UI development, with hands-on full-stack engineering experience.
- Significant experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
- Solid understanding of software design principles, testing practices, and delivery fundamentals.
- Experience contributing to production systems involving observability, incident response, and on-call practices.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills for working with teammates, product managers, and stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
- Ability to work independently and proactively as part of a team in a fast-paced Agile-Scrum environment.
- Takes responsibility for successful delivery of solutions.
- Strong desire to improve skills in tools and technologies.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in distributed systems, high-traffic services, or data-intensive platforms.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery models.
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-quality features end-to-end across web and backend platforms, focusing on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Own stories and epics from refinement through delivery, clarifying scope and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architecture and implementation decisions.
- Write tested and documented code and maintain a high standard in code review.
- Contribute to observability, alerting, and on-call practices to maintain healthy production systems.
- Support other engineers by sharing knowledge and helping them grow.
- Collaborate with Product and Design to refine requirements and identify technical constraints early.
- Work with principal and lead software engineers and engineering managers to define technical tasks for user stories and support efficient refinement and delivery.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve engineering tools and processes.
- Work with DevOps to design, provision, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based uncapped sales incentive plan, as applicable.
- Growth and learning opportunities, including mentorship, apprenticeship, leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, and certification opportunities.
- Flexible hybrid work environment, with the option to work virtually when productive and collaborate with colleagues in offices.
- More than 20 PTO days, plus holidays and floating holidays in the first year.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) with corporate match and immediate vesting; match up to $7,200 per year.
- Health and wellness allowance programs.
- Parental leave.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan and the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Gartner Gives Charity Match.
- Collaborative and inclusive workplace culture.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
