Senior Software Engineer

Introduction to Demandbase: 

Demandbase is the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands. We help B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. How? By aligning their sales and marketing teams around a combination of their data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what we call Account Intelligence — so they can identify, engage, and focus their time and money on the accounts most likely to buy. 

As a company, we’re as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class technology. We invest heavily in people, our culture, and the community around us. We have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and India, as well as a team in the UK. We have also been continuously recognized as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area including, “Best Workplaces for Millennials” and “Best Workplaces for Parents”!

We're committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce. By ensuring that every Demandbase employee is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we're increasingly capable of living out our mission to transform how B2B goes to market. We encourage people from historically underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at Demandbase!

What you'll be doing:

• Be a role model for your team by embodying core values, driving productivity, accountability, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Drive continuous business impact independently across your team, product capabilities, or technical roadmaps
• Collaborate closely with Product Management to understand customer needs and convert them into technical solutions.
• Take ownership of defining and delivering technical roadmaps and strategies for team initiatives, including medium-to-long term plans.
• Work closely with Global Teams to develop/scale/maintain the Demandbase Products
• Lead projects, manage dependencies, and deliver on milestones with a focus on engineering velocity and software quality.
• Responsible for improving the performance and maintaining existing software.
• Conduct technical training, and code reviews in the department apart from mentoring and guiding the team members.
• Supervising and overseeing the technical aspects of projects.
• Work with experienced ICs to improve the architecture using the latest technologies, libraries, and AWS.
• Define methods for measuring product success, evaluate performance, and implement automated feedback mechanisms to enhance features.
• Contribute to organization standards, best practices, and automation improvements in our CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive & Champion operational excellence by owning alerts, runbooks, and other enhancements to improve system reliability and team efficiency.

What we are looking for:

• 8 - 11 years of experience preferably in software product companies
• 4+ years of experience in designing & developing scalable web applications
• Keen interest in learning new skill sets and ability to learn new technologies, software, and concepts quickly
• Strong knowledge of:
• REST APIs and Microservices Architecture.
• Java (11+), Spring, Hibernate, and relational databases (DBMS).
• Testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles.
• NoSQL databases and their applications.
• Excellent communication skills, and a team-oriented mindset to work effectively in small, high-performing teams
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant/equivalent technical discipline

Nice to have:

• Experience designing and implementing large distributed systems.
• Hands-on knowledge of AWS services such as CloudFront, EKS, Athena, Elastic Cache, ECS, and others.
• Experience using Docker containers.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Familiarity with observability tools and practices for monitoring and logging.
• Interest in emerging technologies and a passion for staying updated with industry trends.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Demandbase

At Demandbase, we believe in creating a workplace culture that values and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We recognize that everyone brings unique experiences, perspectives, and identities to the table, and we are committed to building a community where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. Discrimination of any kind is not tolerated, and we strive to ensure that every individual has an equal opportunity to succeed and grow, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity, background, marital status, genetic information, education level, veteran status, national origin, or any other protected status. We do not automatically disqualify applicants with criminal records and will consider each applicant on a case-by-case basis.

We recognize that not all candidates will have every skill or qualification listed in this job description. If you feel you have the level of experience to be successful in the role, we encourage you to apply!

We acknowledge that true diversity and inclusion require ongoing effort, and we are committed to doing the work required to make our workplace a safe and equitable space for all. Join us in building a community where we can learn from each other, celebrate our differences, and work together.