Senior Backend Engineer (Java/ML/AI) - AskGartner

Hiring near our US Centers of Excellence.

Irving, TX

Stamford, CT

Gartner offers a flexible environment, with remote work that allows associates great flexibility to work from home, and opportunities to connect with colleagues for moments that matter on-site. Candidates that apply should be located within a reasonable proximity to one of Gartner’s Centers of Excellence office locations.

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 this role:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who serves as a technical anchor for the team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading medium-sized initiatives, providing sound technical guidance, and ensuring our web services are built for scale and reliability. You are an engineer who balances hands-on development with the ability to influence technical direction and mentor peers.

What you’ll do:

• Provide leadership and guidance for medium-sized initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable and incorporate strategic considerations.

• Contribute actively to architectural discussions and design sound, maintainable web services using Java or Python.

• Promote organizational values within the team and ensure technical decisions align with broader team goals and best practices.

• Design and implement robust ETL/ELT pipelines and ML Engineering workflows that meet performance and reliability requirements.

• Develop strong communication skills to articulate technical concepts to various stakeholders and influence technical direction at the Business Unit level.

• Actively seek opportunities to mentor junior and peer engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growt h

Must have:

• 5 years of professional experience in the IT industry.

• Experience and strong knowledge about REST APIs, API performance / scaling and best practices

• Strong command of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Design Patterns to build moderately complex and efficient systems.

• Significant experience developing and maintaining production-scale, customer-facing web services.

• Hands-on exposure to OpenSearch or ElasticSearch and a solid understanding of different storage engines (SQL and NoSQL).

• Familiarity with AWS environments and a working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
  

Nice to have:

• Practical experience managing the data lifecycle through ETL/ELT processes and deploying ML models into production.

• Experience with Agentic Workflows or AI-driven automation.

• Proven track record of improving team velocity through better tooling or process improvements.

Who you are:

• Excellent communication skills.

• Attitude and aptitude to learn, collaborate, and work towards common goals of the team. Must be a team player.

• Able to work independently or within but interact with a team proactively collaboratively in a fast-paced AGILE-SCRUM environment.

• Owns success – Takes responsibility for the successful delivery

• Feels strongly about the importance of Master Data and will do your best to improve its quality and trust across the organization

• 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 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 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.

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.

The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.

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