At Varicent, we're not just transforming the Sales Performance Management (SPM) market—we're redefining how organizations achieve revenue success. Our cutting-edge SaaS solutions empower revenue leaders globally to design smarter go-to-market strategies, maximize seller performance, and unlock untapped potential. Varicent stands at the forefront of innovation, celebrated as a market leader in the 2025 Forrester Wave Report for SPM, 2023 Ventana Research Revenue Performance Management (RPM) Value Index, Gartner Peer Insights, 2024 Gartner SPM Market Guide, and G2. Our solutions are trusted by a diverse range of global industry leaders like T-Mobile, ServiceNow, Wawanesa Bank, Shaw Industries, Moody's, Stryker and hundreds more. Here's why you'll thrive at Varicent:
- Innovate with Purpose: Build impactful solutions for customers worldwide.
- Join Excellence: Work in a diverse, collaborative, and innovative team.
- Shape the Future: Lead in redefining revenue optimization.
- Grow Together: Unlock your potential in a supportive environment.
Join us at Varicent—where your talent and ambition meet limitless opportunities for success!
We're building scalable, data-driven product systems and looking for a Lead Software Developer with strong engineering skills and a track record of designing and delivering complex, production-grade systems. You'll lead the design and delivery of critical product components, collaborate closely with technical leads and senior stakeholders, and play a key role in driving technical quality, scalability, and engineering standards across a core product area.
- Own critical components end-to-end and deliver measurable improvements in system quality, scalability, and reliability. You operate independently, drive design decisions, and elevate engineering standards through technical leadership and mentorship.
- Design, build, and scale new features for REST APIs and large-scale data processing pipelines that handle high-volume datasets across distributed systems.
- Architect and optimize backend services for high throughput and low-latency performance.
- Develop data-intensive and event-driven applications using Python, Typescript, C#, and AWS-native services.
- Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability across microservices and cloud infrastructure.
- Partner with senior engineers, architects, DevOps, and QA throughout the full development lifecycle.
- Mentor developers, guide code reviews, and raise engineering quality standards.
- Strong system design skills with the ability to break down ambiguous problems into scalable technical solutions.
- Ability to evaluate new technologies, tools, and approaches, and recommend solutions based on trade-offs, impact, and ROI.
- Builds systems that are secure, reliable, and compliant by design, partnering with cross-functional teams when needed.
- Drives technical alignment across teams and contributes to improving engineering standards and processes.
- We balance exploration with delivery — test ideas quickly, then productionize what works.
- "Done" means quality goals are met, followed by continuous improvement in scalability, performance, and reliability.
- The team owns systems end-to-end (build, release, reliability).
- 6+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
- 3+ years working with Typescript / Node.js / C#.
- Advanced experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Step Functions, etc.).
- Proven experience working with large datasets, distributed computing, and batch or stream processing using Spark, Dask, EMR, Glue, Kafka, etc.
- Solid understanding of system design, distributed systems, scalability patterns, and cloud architecture.
- Experience building data-driven or ML-enabled systems
- Familiarity with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing, or performance optimization
- Experience with event-driven architectures, streaming systems, or large-scale data processing
- Exposure to modern AI tools or integrations (not required)
- Contributions to open source, technical blogs, or conference talks
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
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