Principal Software Engineer (Reactjs & Golang)

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 role owns technical leadership for the Peer Community product within Digital Product Technology (DPT), partnering with three Scrum teams to deliver web and backend platforms and to drive discovery and the architectural runway.

About Gartner Peer Community 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:

• Lead system architecture, run technical reviews, and own cross-team integration and interfaces across three Scrum teams.

• Participate and lead discovery, prototyping, and the architectural runway to ensure delivery readiness and technical alignment.

• Design and evolve client-side architecture for web and mobile while ensuring consistency across platforms.

• Design and build effective, observable, and scalable backend services in Go.

• Define and drive non-functional requirements: scalability, availability, security, observability, and performance.

• Coach and mentor senior engineers; influence hiring, on-call practices, and engineering standards.

• Work closely with Product and Design to translate customer problems into technical solutions and measurable outcomes.

• Improve engineering processes and tooling to reduce cycle time and increase reliability.

What you will need:

Must have:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.

• Demonstrated experience leading architecture and delivery across multiple teams.

• Strong proficiency with at least two of: React, Next.js, Go.

• Hands-on experience with observability, incident response, and performance tuning.

• Proven track record delivering systems with strong UX, maintainability, and operational quality.

• Excellent written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have / opportunity to learn

• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Scalr).

• Experience with Next.js and server-side rendering patterns.

• Prior experience in distributed systems, high-traffic services, or data-intensive platforms.

• Experience with data science platforms

How we work:

• We work with a focus on continuous, iterative delivery.

• We rely on clear documentation and asynchronous communication to coordinate across our multi-regional teams.

• We test heavily to rapidly deliver changes with minimal risk.

• We operate with a clear leadership structure and career framework while empowering teams with autonomy, strong mentorship, and cross-team collaboration.

How we measure success:

• We work with a focus on continuous, iterative delivery.

• Delivery of cross-team initiatives and architectural runway items

• Reduced time-to-merge and improved release stability

• Adoption and performance of new platform features

Who you are:

• Excellent communication and prioritization skills.

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

• Strong desire to improve upon their skills in software development, frameworks, 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.
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