Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven SaaS

Pendo.io, Inc.; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Pendo, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, seeks a Sr. Software Engineer to own complex features end-to-end and drive delivery with product and design partners. You will ship reliable production code, apply safe rollout patterns, and contribute to AI-enabled development in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

Ideal candidates communicate clearly across teams, break ambiguous work into actionable increments, and improve the codebase as you deliver. This hybrid role emphasizes collaboration and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering delivering customer-facing SaaS features.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language: Go/Java/Python/C++.
• Systems architecture, API design, and performance optimization.
• Experience with AWS or GCP and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Ability to break work into deliverable increments and drive execution.
• Experience with tests and safe deployment practices.
• Active use of AI tools in development workflows.
• Excellent communication across teams.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own complex features from problem definition through delivery.
• Write production-quality code and apply safe rollout patterns.
• Respond quickly to production issues and drive fixes.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineers on decisions.
• Document decisions and maintain clear technical notes.

Skills

Backend languages: Go, Java, Python, C

Cloud platforms: AWS or GCP

Databases: SQL and NoSQL

Testing: unit/integration/end-to-end

AI-enabled development

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

GCP

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Pendo, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, seeks a Sr. Software Engineer to own complex features end-to-end and drive delivery with product and design partners. You will ship reliable production code, apply safe rollout patterns, and contribute to AI-enabled development in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

Ideal candidates communicate clearly across teams, break ambiguous work into actionable increments, and improve the codebase as you deliver. This hybrid role emphasizes collaboration and reliability.