Staff Software Engineer

A career that’s the whole package!

At Conga, we’ve built a community where our colleagues can thrive. Here you’ll find opportunities to innovate, support for growth through individual and team development, and an environment where all voices can be heard.

Conga crushes complexity within an increasingly complex world. With our revenue lifecycle management solution, we transform your unique complexities for order configuration, execution, fulfillment, and contract renewal processes with a single critical insights data model that adapts to ever-changing business requirements and aligns the understanding and efforts of every team.

Our mission: Empower customers to deliver transformational revenue growth by aligning teams, processes, and technology to maximize customer lifetime value.

Our approach is grounded in the Conga Way, a framework for what we stand for and everything we do as an organization — from hiring to decision making and product development. Developed with direct input from our colleagues, the Conga Way is the foundation for our culture.

A quick snapshot…

We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer (Lead Data Scientist) to help us build the next-gen Conga products. You will act as a subject matter expert as this will pertain to building architecture and working with cross-functional teams to help resolve issues. Working closely with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and help them translate these into technical requirements for the development team. The Platform Services team is a tightly integrated team serving the foundational platform components of Conga products. We architect, build, run, and support all the internal systems and services that run Cloud Revenue Lifecycle Management.

Why it’s a big deal…  

This is one of the critical roles in the project, where you will be an expert in product development, a good team player, and will lead and mentor your team members. We believe in using the best tools for the task at hand so the ability and desire to learn new programming languages and technologies is necessary. All of this adds up to an exciting, challenging, and always interesting place to work, where complex problems are found and solved every day. This role determines the root cause for the most complex software issues and develops practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions.

Are you the person we’re looking for? 

Related Experience. You should have 7+ years of Hands-On experience in the development of AI models, writing codes, building algorithms, and deploying models into production environments. Your experience with NLP, Generative AI, fine-tuned LLM’s and LM models like GPT 4, Llama, BERT etc. and experience in building RAG pipelines is highly desired for this role· you should have experience with deep learning models, recommendation engines. It would be great to have exposure to Agentic AI models like Semantic Kernel/Lang Graph, usage of CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud deployment (Azure/AWS/GCP).

Component and Service Design: You should be able to design and build reusable components, microservices, and APIs that can be leveraged across multiple AI projects within Conga. Developing and maintaining libraries of reusable codes, tools, and templates that accelerate AI development is necessary. You must ensure that all components are built for integration with existing systems, supporting seamless data flow and interoperability and to be able to communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders, ensuring that they understand the capabilities and limitations of AI technologies.

 Deployment Tools. You should possess hands-on experience working with containers and Kubernetes and Demonstrate success executing development work within an Agile environment. 

Agile Development and Planning. You would be a part of the agile team, which includes design, development, testing, planning, backlog grooming, and support during the project lifecycle. You will work with product owners and architects to understand detailed requirements and own the code from design, and development to test automation.

AWS or Azure Cloud. You should be proficient with cloud architecture, cloud design patterns, and AWS or Azure cloud technologies.

Education. A bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.            

Here’s what will give you an edge…

Effective communication and interpersonal skills. You’re comfortable initiating and engaging in collaborative discussions. You are skilled at reading and adapting to different communication styles. When you speak, you are clear and concise. Your strong listening skills help to build trust and foster connections with our clients. They also ensure you collect the right information so you can resolve issues most expediently.

Initiative. You do not wait around for things to happen or for your manager to tell you what to do. You are not only proactive about completing your own work, but when you sense the need to introduce a project that will benefit the team or the organization -- even if it’s outside your scope of work -- you put a proposal together, talk to the team about it, and own it. And that also goes back to having an entrepreneurial spirit.

Passionate Problem Solver. Proactive, self-driven, and enjoys solving complex problems, not just in the primary area of responsibility but across boundaries. Identify and implement best practices for coding as well as development processes and perform as a trusted contributor requiring little to no supervision and demonstrating the ability to meet deadlines, exceed goals, and create benchmarks for success.

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Did we pique your interest?  

If this sounds like the kind of job you would love in the kind of environment where you would thrive, please click apply. We'd love to hear from you! 

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Don’t meet every requirement for the role?   

Studies have shown that women and members of ethnic minorities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Conga we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You just might be the right candidate for this or other roles.  

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