Senior Software Development Engineer, Highspot
Training & Coaching
Sales enablement platform
Job no longer available
Sales enablement platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower companies to elevate customer conversations that drive strategic growth.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in building, integrating with, and supporting APIs using a variety of languages, data formats, and data transformations
- 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
- Experience developing software products, scalable internet software, and applications using a range of software models including object-oriented and functional design patterns
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer who will bring their creativity and experience to Highspot to help us build software with a spark of magic
- This is a role that works closely with Product Management, Design, and Frontend Engineering
- While we don’t expect you to be an expert in all of these technologies, some of the languages and tools we use to build Highspot include Ruby, Java, Clojure, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Solr, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Focus on server-side programming while also understanding how features work end-to-end in the web frontend and mobile user experiences
- Rapidly create software that customers love by partnering cross-functionally with a talented team of Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers
- Use your communication skills to represent highly technical concepts to your counterparts on the Frontend, Design, and Product Management teams
- Integrate Highspot with external APIs, including third-party Learning Management Systems (LMS) and other partner applications
- Develop clean, reusable, supportable, and well-tested RESTful APIs and web services
- Design and implement new endpoints for Highspot’s external API to power the Highspot web frontend, mobile applications, and our customers' software
- Write automated tests of your code and collaborate with QA to deliver software at a high level of quality
- Define and meet scalability, uptime, performance, and security goals
- Resolve major customer technical issues in production
- Contribute to internal and external technical documentation
Our take
Highspot is an AI-driven sales enablement platform that enhances sales team performance globally. It offers intelligent content management, training, contextual guidance, and customer engagement in a unified platform. This integration, supported by actionable analytics, helps companies turn strategic plans into effective sales.
Highspot's annual recurring revenue has grown over tenfold in recent years, highlighting the importance of sales enablement in improving sales team performance. The company's innovation and customer satisfaction have led to record new customer acquisitions and revenue growth, with clients like Hootsuite, Twitter, Siemens, and Nestle.
Despite a 10% workforce reduction following its expansion into Canada, Highspot continues to innovate. The Spring ’24 release expands generative AI capabilities, providing personalised, just-in-time coaching and content personalisation at scale. Highspot Discover showcases these innovations, reinforcing Highspot's leadership in sales enablement.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$248m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $642.6m
Company benefits
- Generous PTO
- Free, Immersive Learning Courses
- Flexible Transportation Options
- Equity For Everyone
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible work and holiday schedules
- Competitive compensation
- Work from home opportunities
- Modern Health and Wellness Program
- Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP & DPSP)
Leadership
Robert Wahbe
(CEO)Former Corporate Vice President of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft
Oliver Sharp
(Chief Solution Architect)Former General Manager of Strategy, Server and Tools Division at Microsoft
David Wortendyke
(CPO)Former Partner Architect at Windows Azure for over 20 years
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