Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Driven, Scalable SaaS

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

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-heavy coverage

401(k) match

Equity

Flexible time off

Job summary

Pendo is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer to own complex features for the Core team in Raleigh. You will break work into increments, write reliable production code, and apply AI tools to improve coding, debugging, and testing workflows.

You will collaborate with product and design, maintain high quality standards, and drive improvements in engineering processes. This hybrid Raleigh role offers strong compensation and equity, with a focus on scalable, reliable systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering customer-facing SaaS product features.
• Proficient in at least one backend language: Go, Java, Python, or C++.
• Experience with AWS or GCP cloud platforms and both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to independently structure ambiguous technical work into small, deliverable increments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end features from problem definition through delivery.
• Write production-quality code with appropriate testing strategies.
• Respond to production issues and drive root-cause resolutions.
• Integrate AI tools into daily development workflows.

Skills

Backend expertise

Cloud platforms

Testing practices

AI tools adoption

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

AWS/GCP

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Pendo is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer to own complex features for the Core team in Raleigh. You will break work into increments, write reliable production code, and apply AI tools to improve coding, debugging, and testing workflows.

You will collaborate with product and design, maintain high quality standards, and drive improvements in engineering processes. This hybrid Raleigh role offers strong compensation and equity, with a focus on scalable, reliable systems.