Staff Backend Developer

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<div class="content-intro"><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="p-rich_text_section">At Varicent, we’re not just transforming the Sales Performance Management (SPM) market—we’re redefining how organizations achieve revenue success. Our cutting-edge SaaS solutions empower revenue leaders globally to design smarter go-to-market strategies, maximize seller performance, and unlock untapped potential. Varicent stands at the forefront of innovation, celebrated as a market leader in the&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">2025 Forrester Wave Report for SPM</em>,&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">2023 Ventana Research Revenue Performance Management (RPM) Value Index</em>,&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">Gartner Peer Insights</em>,&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">2024 Gartner SPM Market Guide</em>, and&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">G2.&nbsp;</em>Our solutions are trusted by a diverse range of global industry leaders like T-Mobile, ServiceNow, Wawanesa Bank, Shaw Industries, Moody's, Stryker and hundreds more. Here’s why you’ll thrive at Varicent:</div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Innovate with Purpose: Build impactful solutions for customers worldwide.</strong></li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Join Excellence: Work in a diverse, collaborative, and innovative team.</strong></li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Shape the Future: Lead in redefining revenue optimization.</strong></li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Grow Together: Unlock your potential in a supportive environment.</strong></li> </ul> <div class="p-rich_text_section">Join us at Varicent—where your talent and ambition meet limitless opportunities for success!</div></div><h3 data-section-id="az7vk7" data-start="324" data-end="345">Job Description</h3> <p data-start="347" data-end="808">We’re building scalable, data-driven product systems and looking for a Staff Software Developer with strong engineering skills and a track record of designing and delivering complex, production-grade systems. You’ll lead the design and delivery of critical product components, collaborate closely with technical leads and senior stakeholders, and play a key role in driving technical quality, scalability, and engineering standards across a core product area.</p> <hr data-start="810" data-end="813"> <h3 data-section-id="1ji0kqt" data-start="815" data-end="829">Overview</h3> <p data-start="830" data-end="1083">• Own critical components end-to-end and deliver measurable improvements in system quality, scalability, and reliability. You operate independently, drive design decisions, and elevate engineering standards through technical leadership and mentorship.</p> <hr data-start="1085" data-end="1088"> <h3 data-section-id="1822xnh" data-start="1090" data-end="1110">What you’ll do</h3> <p data-start="1111" data-end="2031">• Own delivery for significant features or systems: clarify requirements, design solutions, execute, ship, and iterate.<br data-start="1230" data-end="1233">• Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that support core product functionality.<br data-start="1344" data-end="1347">• Drive system design decisions, balancing scalability, performance, reliability, and cost.<br data-start="1438" data-end="1441">• Define how quality is measured for your area (success metrics, testing strategy, observability) and automate it wherever possible.<br data-start="1573" data-end="1576">• Lead structured experimentation: define hypotheses, evaluate results, and translate insights into product and system improvements.<br data-start="1708" data-end="1711">• Improve operational readiness: deployment automation, monitoring/alerting, incident response, and performance optimization.<br data-start="1836" data-end="1839">• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on technical guidance.<br data-start="1928" data-end="1931">• Influence engineering best practices, architecture decisions, and long-term technical direction.</p> <hr data-start="2033" data-end="2036"> <h3 data-section-id="17cdoq6" data-start="2038" data-end="2068">Engineering Expectations</h3> <p data-start="2069" data-end="2545">• Strong system design skills with the ability to break down ambiguous problems into scalable technical solutions.<br data-start="2183" data-end="2186">• Ability to evaluate new technologies, tools, and approaches, and recommend solutions based on trade-offs, impact, and ROI.<br data-start="2310" data-end="2313">• Builds systems that are secure, reliable, and compliant by design, partnering with cross-functional teams when needed.<br data-start="2433" data-end="2436">• Drives technical alignment across teams and contributes to improving engineering standards and processes.</p> <hr data-start="2547" data-end="2550"> <h3 data-section-id="1v55a3p" data-start="2552" data-end="2569">How we work</h3> <p data-start="2570" data-end="2852">• We balance exploration with delivery — test ideas quickly, then productionize what works.<br data-start="2661" data-end="2664">• “Done” means quality goals are met, followed by continuous improvement in scalability, performance, and reliability.<br data-start="2782" data-end="2785">• The team owns systems end-to-end (build, release, reliability).</p> <hr data-start="2854" data-end="2857"> <h3 data-section-id="1df55zh" data-start="2859" data-end="2884">Years of experience</h3> <p data-start="2885" data-end="3053">• Overall: 6+ years in software engineering<br data-start="2928" data-end="2931">• Relevant: 3+ years building and shipping production systems in product teams<br data-start="