Staff Software Engineer

The posting, as Conga wrote it

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 and support growth through individual and team development, all within an environment where every voice is heard.

Conga lines up commercial operations so companies run as connected, smarter businesses. By unifying the people and processes that drive commerce, Conga aligns pricing, quoting, contracting, rebates, and communications so teams stay in sync and buyers keep moving forward. The result is trusted decisions, consistent buyer experiences, and profitable growth. More than 10,000 customers worldwide, including over 50% of the Fortune 100®, trust Conga when commercial complexity is high and global impact is on the line.

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer

Location: Houston, Tx, Boston, MA Hybrid

Reports To: Product Development Manager

A Quick Snapshot...

The Staff Software Engineer is a hands-on backend role focused on building the Java services that power real-time pricing across Conga's platform. This position is responsible for designing and delivering cloud-native, microservices-based capabilities that are scalable, performant, resilient, and maintainable.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work with Cassandra, Redis, Azure, and event-driven patterns to deliver high-throughput backend solutions. You will collaborate with an international team of engineers, product managers, and architects, contribute to architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers along the way.

This role is ideal for experienced Java engineers who thrive on distributed systems, care deeply about clean code and quality, and want their work to have a direct impact on how enterprise customers price and sell.

Why It's a Big Deal...

• Design and develop backend services in Java for a cloud-native, microservices-based platform with a strong focus on scalability, performance, resiliency, and maintainability.
• Build reusable backend services and distributed system capabilities that support real-time pricing and related business operations.
• Work with Cassandra, Redis, Azure, and event-driven patterns to deliver reliable, high-throughput backend solutions.
• Collaborate with an international team of engineers, product managers, and architects to define system functionality and plan future sprints.
• Partner with tech leads and architects to align implementations with industry best practices and company standards across the backend layer.
• Contribute to backend architecture decisions, service design, and data handling patterns.
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing across the engineering team.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers, guiding them in best practices, design decisions, and professional growth.
• Conduct technical research to solve complex problems and drive continuous improvement across backend technologies.
• Develop unit, integration, and serv

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Additional Information

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