Job Description

• India - Hyderabad

About Highspot

Highspot is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity. On a mission to transform the way millions of people work with sales enablement, Highspot is committed to building breakthrough software with a spark of magic. We believe a great place to work is about more than the work – it’s about what the company stands for, and how it authentically represents its values in the real world. To this end, we have put intentional focus on creating equitable workspaces for each of our employees. Our goal is to create a culture where everyone feels a deep sense of belonging and is empowered to be an agent of change, with the ability to transform themselves, their workplace, and their world.

About the Role 

We’re very proud of our customer loyalty and our rapid growth. Concurrent with this growth is the need to scale our platform and deliver high-quality features in a fast-paced environment with the challenge to solve complex technical problems. We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help build our Training & Coaching product. 

Our ideal candidate should have strong technical skills as an engineer and architect; understands how to build high quality customer-facing software; is a team player who enjoys working collaboratively with Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers; is values-driven and cares deeply about culture, is self-managed, curious, and resourceful

What You'll Do

• • Build “Highspot Everywhere” that is used by revenue leaders and revenue enablement professionals to be able to use Highspot’s platform wherever they are working every day
  • Focus on web frontend programming while also understanding how features work end-to-end in the Highspot RESTful API and in other backend services
  • Rapidly create software that customers love by partnering cross-functionally with a talented team of Engineers, Designers, QA, and Product Managers 
  • Use your communication skills to represent highly technical concepts to your counterparts on the Backend, Product Management, and Design teams
  • Integrate the web frontend with Highspot's external RESTful API and other partner APIs
  • Integrate Highspot with external APIs, including third-party systems of record like Google, CRM systems like Salesforce and Dynamics365, and more
  • Develop clean, reusable, supportable, and well-tested code
  • Implement responsive, accessible, and pixel-perfect web frontend UIs based on comps created by our designers
  • Write automated tests of your Javascript code and collaborate with QA to deliver software at a high level of quality
  • Define and meet performance, accessibility, and security goals
  • Resolve major customer technical issues in production
  • Create architecture and design documents
  • Contribute to internal and external technical documentation

Your Background

• • 6+ years’ experience developing software products, scalable internet software, and applications using a range of software models including object-oriented and functional design patterns
  • Strong proficiency in building cross-browser, highly interactive web applications using frontend web technologies
  • Expert knowledge of SaaS-type web application architecture and delivery
  • Expert with consuming RESTful APIs
  • An entrepreneurial spirit: you’re agile, creative, resourceful, and tenacious as you solve problems and achieve team and company goals
  • Comfortable with modern open source technologies and tools