Staff Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power Pendo's integrations platform.
• Develop and maintain distributed, event-driven data pipelines that process and sync high volumes of behavioral and product analytics data.
• Contribute to frontend applications that allow customers to configure, manage, and monitor integrations and data workflows.
• Lead technical initiatives from design through implementation, testing, and production rollout.
• Integrate with third-party APIs and enterprise platforms using technologies such as REST, webhooks, and OAuth.
• Collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and partner teams to translate business needs into high-quality technical solutions.
• Use modern development workflows and AI-powered tools to improve developer productivity and streamline engineering processes.
• Participate in design reviews and promote best practices in testing, observability, performance, and system reliability.
• Contribute to improving platform scalability, availability, and operational excellence.

Requirements:

• Experience building backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
• Experience developing modern web applications using frameworks such as Vue, React, or Angular.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Java, Python, or C++.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput data pipelines.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience building integration platforms or working with third-party APIs.
• Familiarity with authentication models such as OAuth and enterprise SaaS integrations.
• Experience working with analytics or behavioral event data.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools or working with modern AI workflows.

Technologies:

• Frontend: Vue, Vuex, React, Angular, Highcharts, Jest, Cypress.
• Backend: Go, Java, Python, C++.
• Cloud and Data: AWS, GCP, Redis, Pub/Sub, SQL/NoSQL.
• AI / ML: GenAI, LLMs, LangChain, MLOps.

Skills

APIs, Agentic AI, Java, LLMs, backend, distributed systems