Senior Software Development Engineer
Highspot
Job Summary
Highspot is a leading sales enablement software company that uses AI and GenAI in its SaaS platform to transform how millions work. The platform offers intelligent content management, training, guidance, customer engagement, meeting intelligence, and analytics. Highspot has offices worldwide, including India. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and development of core frontend features. The ideal candidate is a skilled communicator, collaborative, self-managed, curious, and resourceful, with experience building customer-facing web applications. Responsibilities include partnering with cross-functional teams, developing RESTful APIs and web services, optimizing data services, integrating with external APIs, collaborating with Data Science on AI features, building scalable methodologies, and mentoring junior engineers.
Must Have
- 6-10 years experience in distributed systems, databases, and production features
- Proficiency in building, integrating, and supporting APIs/web services
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Entrepreneurial spirit: agile, creative, resourceful, tenacious
- Comfortable with modern open source technologies
- Experience developing scalable internet software
- Experience with object-oriented and functional design patterns
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Good to Have
- Hands-on experience in Ruby
- Full-stack or frontend development experience for modern web apps
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Partner with UX, Product Management, Data Science, and other teams to create software that customers love
- Develop clean, reusable, supportable, and well-tested RESTful APIs and web services, including Highspot’s external API
- Optimize and perform enhancements to large-scale data services built on top of MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, and other technologies
- Integrate Highspot with external APIs, including third-party Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, Content Management Systems (CMS), and other partner applications
- Collaborate with the Data Science team to integrate advanced machine learning models into the application to deliver cutting edge AI features and help solve complex business problems for customers
- Build scalable methodologies, tools, and techniques accompanied by excellent technical documentation
- Stay abreast of new technologies and practices to further enhance team capabilities and your own skill
- Act as a mentor and source for direction, training, and guidance for more junior engineers
Required Qualifications
- 6-10 years of experience building distributed systems, working with databases, and implementing production-ready high quality features
- Proficiency in building, integrating with, and supporting APIs and web services using a variety of languages, data formats, and data transformations
- Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and other developers, to develop and deliver high-quality applications
- An entrepreneurial spirit: you’re agile, creative, resourceful, and tenacious as you solve problems and achieve team and company goals
- Comfortable with modern open source technologies and tools
- Experience developing software products, scalable internet software, and applications using a range of software models including object-oriented and functional design patterns
- Hands on experience in Ruby is an added advantage
- Experience in full-stack or frontend development for modern web applications is a plus
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience