Sr Software Engineer (4-6 yrs in BE dev- DSA & design patterns)

About Gartner IT:

Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients. We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner. Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation an outcome-driven approach to success and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team.

About the role:

Gartner is seeking a talented and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our growing this role you will be responsible for building the foundational data and services our AI Products and Insights Team. You will closely collaborate with Product Managers Data Scientists and Cloud teams to expand the reach and accuracy of our Agentic and Search Solutions.

You are someone who doesnt just write code but understands the why behind every architectural decisionfrom choosing the right storage engine to optimizing search indexing and scaling machine learning solutions.

What youll do:

• Technical Leadership: Provide leadership and guidance for medium-sized initiatives ensuring solutions are scalable and incorporate strategic considerations.

• System Architecture: Contribute actively to architectural discussions and design sound maintainable web services using Java or Python.

• Engineering Standards: Promote organizational values within the team and ensure technical decisions align with broader team goals and best practices.

• API Development: Build and performance tune highly scalable APIs

• Data & ML Integration: Design and implement robust ETL/ELT pipelines and ML Engineering workflows that meet performance and reliability requirements.

• Strategic Communication: Develop strong communication skills to articulate technical concepts to various stakeholders and influence technical direction at the Business Unit level.

• Mentorship: Actively seek opportunities to mentor junior and peer engineers fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.

What youll need:

Must have:

• Experience: 4-6 years of professional experience in the IT industry.

• API Development: Experience and strong knowledge about REST APIs API performance / scaling and best practices

• Advanced Engineering: Strong command of Data Structures Algorithms and Design Patterns to build complex and efficient systems.

• Backend Mastery: Significant experience developing and maintaining production-scale customer-facing web services.

• Search & Storage: Hands-on exposure and solid understanding of different storage engines (SQL and NoSQL Search Engines).

• Cloud & DevOps: Familiarity with AWS environments and a working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Nice to have/opportunity to learn:

• Data Engineering: Practical experience managing the data lifecycle through ETL/ELT processes and deploying ML models into production.

• Experience with Agentic Workflows or AI-driven automation.

• Proven track record of improving team velocity through better tooling or process improvements.

Dont meet every single requirement We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

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