Lead Software Engineer, Backend

🕒 May 12

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Varicent

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501 - 1000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💸 Finance

SaaS • Artificial Intelligence • Finance

Varicent is a leading provider of sales performance management and incentive compensation solutions. The company empowers organizations to drive revenue growth through optimized sales plans, incentive strategies, and data insights. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Varicent enhances decision-making and offers integrated solutions tailored for industries such as financial services, telecommunications, and media. Their platform supports dynamic sales planning, system integrations, and provides essential resources to manage sales performance effectively. Varicent is committed to protecting customer data and fostering growth with a strong focus on technology and strategy.

📋 Description

• Own critical components end-to-end and deliver measurable improvements in system quality, scalability, and reliability. • Own delivery for significant features or systems: clarify requirements, design solutions, execute, ship, and iterate. • Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that support core product functionality. • Drive system design decisions, balancing scalability, performance, reliability, and cost. • Define how quality is measured for your area (success metrics, testing strategy, observability) and automate it wherever possible. • Lead structured experimentation: define hypotheses, evaluate results, and translate insights into product and system improvements. • Improve operational readiness: deployment automation, monitoring/alerting, incident response, and performance optimization. • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on technical guidance. • Influence engineering best practices, architecture decisions, and long-term technical direction.

🎯 Requirements

• Overall: 6+ years in software engineering • Relevant: 3+ years building and shipping production systems in product teams • Technical (hands-on coding): 5+ years • Strong software engineering fundamentals and advanced system design experience • Hands-on coding in Python and/or TypeScript (or similar), building APIs, services, and data pipelines • Experience designing and scaling distributed systems in production environments • Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD, automated testing, and observability • Proven ability to own systems end-to-end, from design through production and iteration • Experience working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with evolving requirements • Strong experimentation mindset: define metrics, build evaluation approaches, and iterate quickly.

🏖️ Benefits

• Innovate with Purpose: Build impactful solutions for customers worldwide. • Join Excellence: Work in a diverse, collaborative, and innovative team. • Shape the Future: Lead in redefining revenue optimization. • Grow Together: Unlock your potential in a supportive environment.