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Here you’ll find opportunities to innovate and support growth through individual and team development, all within an environment where every voice is heard.\nConga 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.\nJob Title: Full-Stack Staff Software Engineer\nLocations: Sofia (Hybrid)\nReports to: Manager, Product Development\nA quick snapshot \nWe’relooking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead to provide technical leadership for our Price Optimization and Management solutions team in Sofia. The team develops and evolves a family of enterprise pricing products across both monolithic and microservicesarchitectures. You will be responsible forsetting the technical direction of our products, translateproduct strategy into actionable engineering plans, and helpthe team deliver secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. This is a technical leadership role, not a people-management position. \nHere’s what will give you an edge…\nOwn the technical design and the evolution of product functional areas and services, making pragmatic decisions that balance customer value, delivery cost, maintainability, security, performance, and risk. \nTranslate product strategy and roadmap priorities into clear technical approaches, actionable increments, dependencies, estimates, and delivery plans for the team. \nLead design discussions across application, service, data, and deployment boundaries, build consensus, and document important architectural decisions and trade-offs. \nRemain hands-on by designing and implementing critical Java services, REST APIs, business logic, data-access components, and selected React and TypeScript features. \nDesign and evolve SQL and NoSQL data solutions, covering data modeling, schema evolution, data-access patterns, performance, scalability, and safe migrations. \nGuide the team toward simple, consistent, and secure designs, reinforcing engineering practices through reviews, examples, and constructive technical challenge. \nMentor Senior Software Engineers and other team members through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing. \nDrive engineering quality through automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, observability, production readiness, and continuous improvement. \nLead the technical investigation of complex production incidents, identify root causes through systematic debugging, and drive sustainable corrective and preventative improvements. \nCollaborate proactively with Product, QA, Cloud Operations, Security, Architecture, and adjacent engineering teams to resolve dependencies and deliver cohesive outcomes. \nIdentify technical risks, blockers, and unhealthy patterns early, communicate them clearly, and propose practical alternatives before delivery is at risk. \nAre you the person we’re looking for?\nA proven track record…\n7+ years of related software engineering experience, including cloud technologies and technical leadership within a complex product environment. \nDeep Java backend expertise and strong hands-on experience with object-oriented design, design patterns, SOLID principles, APIs, distributed systems, and microservices architecture. \nFull-stack breadth, with practical experience in modern front-end engineering, preferably React and TypeScript, and the ability to guide decisions across the application stack. \nDeep understanding of automated testing, systematic debugging, production diagnostics, observability, and secure software-engineering practices. \nExperience owning the design and operation of a functional area or service, including monitoring, production readiness, performance, scalability, and operational risk. \nExperience with large relational and NoSQL data stores, data modeling, schema evolution, migrations, and performance optimization. \nStrong analytical judgement and the ability to find answers when they are not obvious, resolve underlying issues rather than symptoms, and make sound decisions amid ambiguity. \nDemonstrated ability to lead through influence, build consensus, facilitate healthy technical debate, and challenge decisions constructively. \nAbility to break down roadmap goals into actionable work, coordinate dependencies and priorities, and help the team deliver predictable outcomes. \nStrong communication and collaboration skills across Engineering, Product, QA, Operations, Security, and senior stakeholders. \nA coaching mindset and proven ability to mentor Senior Software Engineers and help raise engineering standards across a team. \nHands-on experience integrating AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar, into professional software-engineering workflows with appropriate review and judgement. \nNice to have \nExperience with data-intensive business domains. \nExperience modernizing a mature monolithic product while introducing or evolving cloud-native microservices. \nExperience with event-driven architectures, large-scale data processing, or analytical data technologies such as Databricks, SQL Server Analysis Services, OLAP, MDX, or DAX. \nExperience leading improvements in architecture, observability, security, CI/CD, testing, or developer productivity. \nOur technology landscape \nBackend: Java 21, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, JDBI, Hibernate, Liquibase \nFrontend: React, TypeScript \nData and messaging: Microsoft SQL Server, Kafka, Cassandra, Databricks, Redis, TiDB \nAnalytics: OLAP, MDX, DAX, SQL Server Analysis Services \nCloud and deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Azure \nDelivery: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins \nTesting: Cucumber, Selenium, Playwright, JUnit \nDid we pique your interest? \nIf 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!\nPreferred Resume Format \nWe accept resumes in any format, we suggest using PDF or plain text. These formats help ensure that your resume’s formatting remains intact, making it easier for our recruiters to review your application promptly. \nDon’t meet every requirement for the role? \nStudies 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. \nAdditional Information\nConga is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We understand interviewing can be stressful for those with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to allow you to show us your best self, please let your recruiter know as soon as possible. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Conga is not open to third party solicitation or resumes for our posted FTE positions. Resumes received from third party agencies that are unsolicited will be considered complimentary.\nConga's Applicant Privacy Statement \nThe information you provide during the application process will be used in accordance with Conga’s Applicant Privacy Statement (https://conga.com/applicant-privacy-statement). 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