Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

At Varicent, we’re not just transforming the Sales Performance Management (SPM) market—we’re redefining how organizations achieve revenue success. Our cutting-edge SaaS solutions empower revenue leaders globally to design smarter go-to-market strategies, maximize seller performance, and unlock untapped potential. Varicent stands at the forefront of innovation, celebrated as a market leader in the 2025 Forrester Wave Report for SPM , 2023 Ventana Research Revenue Performance Management (RPM) Value Index , Gartner Peer Insights , 2024 Gartner SPM Market Guide , and G2. Our solutions are trusted by a diverse range of global industry leaders like T-Mobile, ServiceNow, Wawanesa Bank, Shaw Industries, Moody's, Stryker and hundreds more. Here’s why you’ll thrive at Varicent: Innovate with Purpose: Build impactful solutions for customers worldwide. Join Excellence: Work in a diverse, collaborative, and innovative team. Shape the Future: Lead in redefining revenue optimization. Grow Together: Unlock your potential in a supportive environment. Join us at Varicent—where your talent and ambition meet limitless opportunities for success! Job Description We’re building scalable, data-driven product systems and looking for a Lead Software Developer with strong engineering skills and a track record of designing and delivering complex, production-grade systems. You’ll lead the design and delivery of critical product components, collaborate closely with technical leads and senior stakeholders, and play a key role in driving technical quality, scalability, and engineering standards across a core product area. Overview • Own critical components end-to-end and deliver measurable improvements in system quality, scalability, and reliability. You operate independently, drive design decisions, and elevate engineering standards through technical leadership and mentorship. What you’ll do • Own delivery for significant features or systems: clarify requirements, design solutions, execute, ship, and iterate. • Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that support core product functionality. • Drive system design decisions, balancing scalability, performance, reliability, and cost. • Define how quality is measured for your area (success metrics, testing strategy, observability) and automate it wherever possible. • Lead structured experimentation: define hypotheses, evaluate results, and translate insights into product and system improvements. • Improve operational readiness: deployment automation, monitoring/alerting, incident response, and performance optimization. • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on technical guidance. • Influence engineering best practices, architecture decisions, and long-term technical direction. Engineering Expectations • Strong system design skills with the ability to break down ambiguous problems into scalable technical solutions. • Ability to evaluate new technologies, tools, and approaches, and recommend solutions based on trade-offs, impact, and ROI. • Builds systems that are secure, reliable, and compliant by design, partnering with cross-functional teams when needed. • Drives technical alignment across teams and contributes to improving engineering standards and processes. How we work • We balance exploration with delivery — test ideas quickly, then productionize what works. • “Done” means quality goals are met, followed by continuous improvement in scalability, performance, and reliability. • The team owns systems end-to-end (build, release, reliability). Years of experience • Overall: 6+ years in software engineering • Relevant: 3+ years building and shipping production systems in product teams • Technical (hands-on coding): 5+ years Required skills & knowledge • Strong software engineering fundamentals and advanced system design experience • Hands-on coding in Python and/or TypeScript (or similar), building APIs, services, and data pipelines • Experience designing