Sr Software Engineer

Hiring near our Irving, TX and Stamford, CT Centers of Excellence with a flexible environment.

About Gartner IT:

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:

This Senior Software Engineer role is a core individual contributor on one of three Scrum teams within the Peer Community product organization in Digital Product Technology (DPT). You will own feature delivery end-to-end, contribute to technical design, and help raise the overall quality and capability of your team. Gartner Peer Community is a peer-driven platform where thousands of verified enterprise leaders connect to share knowledge, ask questions, and provide peer feedback that helps inform technology and business decisions.

What you will do:

• Design and build high-quality features end-to-end across web, and backend platforms with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Take ownership of stories and epics from refinement through delivery, driving clarity on scope and acceptance criteria.
• Participate actively in technical design discussions and contribute meaningful input on architecture and implementation approaches.
• Write well-tested, well-documented code and hold a high bar in code review.
• Contribute to observability, alerting, and on-call practices to keep production systems healthy.
• Support engineers on the team, sharing knowledge and helping others grow.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to refine requirements and surface technical constraints early.
• Collaborate with principal and lead software engineers and engineering managers to define technical tasks for user stories leading to efficient technical refinement and delivery.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve engineering tooling and processes.
• Work closely with DevOps to design, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools.

What you'll need:

Must have:

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems, including rich experience in end-to-end system design and delivery.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) for backend development and React/Next.js for UI development; must have hands-on full stack engineering experience.
• Significant working experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, testing practices, and delivery fundamentals.
• Experience contributing to production systems with observability, incident response, and on-call practices.
• Clear written and verbal communication with teammates, product managers, and stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Prior experience in distributed systems, high-traffic services, or data-intensive platforms.
• Familiarity with agile/scrum delivery models.

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field required
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to work independently or within a team proactively in a fast-paced AGILE-SCRUM environment.
• Owns success – Takes responsibility for the successful delivery of the solutions.
• Strong desire to improve upon their skills in tools and technologies

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

What you will get:

• Competitive compensation.
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
• Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship; Leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities and more!
• A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
• A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.
• Enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
• 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
• Parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Gartner Gives Charity Match.
  And much more!

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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 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 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.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.

It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.

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.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 100,000 USD - 154,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

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