Senior Backend Engineer, Consensus
$130-160k
Salary dependent on location
Demo automation platform
Job no longer available
Demo automation platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$130-160k
Salary dependent on location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To lead the world into the new era of Demo Automation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4+ years of related experience with backend engineering
- 2+ years of experience with PHP 7.x
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Spring/Spring Boot
- 2+ years of experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS
- Expert level understanding of Java 1.8+ ○ Other enterprise-level back-end language is an advantage (e.g. Golang, C#, C++)
- Mastery-level understanding of REST and API development with strong skills in building well designed APIs
- Experience with eventing frameworks like Kafka is a plus
- Very strong SQL experience, Clickhouse or other analytic datastore experience is a plus
- Firm grasp of architectural principles for back-end applications
- Good practical experience with OOP, SOLID and KISS principles
- Pragmatic approach to feature development, architectural improvement, and system evolution
- Good understanding of Git and pull request workflows including continuous integration
- Solid understanding and practical experience applying the agile methodology to projects
- Strong skills in the terminal for Unix or Linux-based operating systems including script writing and command-line tools
- Debugging skills and the ability to detect and make performance improvements
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other container-based technologies
- Quality-minded, with the ability to elevate others in areas like effective boundary condition testing and test-driven development
- Good communication skills, strong work ethic, and commitment to being accountable for yourself and your team
- Above all, a desire to build software our customers love!
What the job involves
- This position will be responsible for helping Consensus meet aggressive scale and platform growth challenges
- You will use some of the best technologies available and will have an opportunity to shape the architectural future of a fast-growing, industry-leading company
- Apply your PHP/Java skills to maintain and improve existing APIs
- Reverse-engineer mission-critical backend services in order to implement the equivalent services in Java following a reference architecture
- Work with product managers to flush out requirements and create balanced delivery iterations
- Design analytics systems from client contracts down to the database structure
- Create unit tests and work with both manual and automated QA to ensure new features and services work as expected
- Improve the existing codebase to have better and higher quality test coverage
- Collaborate with architects and DevOps to improve overall system design
- Contribute to our architectural roadmap to ensure we have a scalable, performant, maintainable, and secure application
- Mentor and coach less experienced engineers in best practices and established patterns
- Debug production systems as needed
- Improve the system through better alerting, monitoring, and logging
- Avoid and remove technical debt in our systems
- Engineering at Consensus is where collaboration meets innovation. We operate with transparency and foster a blameless culture—mistakes aren’t something to hide; they’re fuel for growth
- Solving real customer challenges is at the heart of everything we do, and we believe the best software comes from engineers who think like product owners
Our take
Today, many enterprise software companies are turning their focus to doing more with less, which has paved the way for intelligent demo automation to become a necessity to drive growth and efficiency within organizations.
Consensus offers an intelligent demo automation platform that is designed to help sales and technical teams create personalized product demos at a quicker rate in order to reallocate their time more wisely. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning algorithms in order to automate these processes to provide tailored individual demos to each customer's specific needs.
Through its innovative solutions, Consensus has achieved remarkable growth, having witnessed a 30% increase in revenue last year. The company has a large roster of clients too, with big names like Autodesk, Atlassian, and Dell trusting it. And it's in a great position going forward, having recently ranked #1 in G2 Presales Software as a Great Place to Work in 2025.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2023
$110m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jan 2022
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $133.7m
Company benefits
- Generous employer contribution towards multiple health, dental, and vision plans
- 401(k) with company matching contributions
- Flexible/Remote work environment
- Company provided best-in-class WFH setup
- Professional Development program
- Birthdays off
- HSA/FSA programs available to maximize your tax savings
- Guaranteed Stock Options
- Paid parental leave to prioritize your family
- Unlimited PTO
- 2 days off each year to volunteer at a Charity of your choice
Company HQ
Sandy Springs, GA
Leadership
Doug Johnson
(CEO)Doug joined Consensus in 2023 as CEO. Prior to that, they were the CRO and President at G5.
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