Lead Software Engineer - Tech Lead, Backend, System Design and Architecture (6-8 yrs)

Overview

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 Lead Software Engineer to join our growing team. In 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 doesn't just write code but understands the "why" behind every architectural decision—from choosing the right storage engine to optimizing search indexing and scaling machine learning solutions.

What you’ll do:

• Technical Vision: Define and communicate a clear technical vision for the engineering function, ensuring it aligns with organizational goals and scales with the business.
• Team Leadership: Lead and develop a team of engineers with moderate effectiveness, providing the mentorship and technical oversight needed to deliver high-quality web services.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain productive relationships with key stakeholders across the business to ensure engineering efforts are prioritized and understood.
• Architecture & Strategy: Drive the design of complex, customer-facing web services using Java or Python, ensuring sound architectural decisions across storage, search, and data processing.
• Operational Excellence: Oversee the implementation of ETL/ELT pipelines and ML Engineering workflows, ensuring the team delivers reliable, production-ready solutions.
• Culture & Values: Actively promote core organizational values within the team and across functions, fostering a collaborative and ethical engineering environment.
  
  

• Experience: 6+ years of professional experience in the IT industry.
• Core Engineering: Expert-level understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) and SOLID design principles.
• Backend Mastery: Proven track record and knowledge about REST APIs, API performance / scaling and best practices
• Data & ML: Practical experience with ETL/ELT processes and rolling out solutions with integrated ML
• Cloud & DevOps: Familiarity with AWS environments and a working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Storage: Hands-on exposure and solid understanding of different storage engines (SQL and NoSQL, Search Engines).
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the "big picture" and align team deliverables with the business roadmap.
• Conflict Resolution: Effectively navigating technical disagreements and stakeholder requirements to reach the best outcome for the product.
• Mentorship: A proven ability to grow the technical and professional skills of mid-level and senior engineers.
  
  

• Experience with Machine Learning or Agentic Workflows or AI-driven automation.
  
  

Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or other roles.

Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer?

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

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