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# Sr. Software Engineer, Backend at Pendo

- **Company:** Pendo
- **Location:** Raleigh, NC
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pendo/jobs/8929128002

## Job description

The Team + The Role

The Core team builds features and platform capabilities that power critical areas of the Pendo product experience. Our work supports high-stakes customer use cases, drives how our systems evolve, and creates a consistent experience across the platform. We operate in complex product areas where delivery speed, system reliability, and long-term maintainability are equally important.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you own complex technical challenges and drive solutions independently. You apply sound engineering judgment, partner with product and design, and take accountability for outcomes, not just output. You break ambiguous work into small, continuously shippable increments, bring others along, and improve the codebase as you deliver.

This role is based in our Raleigh office.

What this looks like day-to-day

- End-to-end feature ownership: Own complex, ambiguous features from problem definition through delivery. Break work into small, independently shippable increments to maintain consistent progress and deliver customer value.
- Production-quality engineering: Write reliable, maintainable production code and select testing approaches based on risk and system impact. Apply safe rollout patterns, including feature flags and incremental deployments, to reduce delivery risk.
- Production reliability: Respond quickly to production issues within your area of ownership and drive them to resolution. Identify root causes and implement improvements that prevent recurring problems.
- AI-enabled development: Integrate AI tools into daily engineering workflows for code generation, debugging, test writing, and task decomposition. Share effective practices that improve how the team uses AI to build and deliver software.
- Technical collaboration: Provide actionable code reviews and contribute constructively to engineering discussions and planning. Partner with product, design, and fellow engineers to align technical decisions with product outcomes.
- Continuous improvement: Identify recurring friction in code, tests, tooling, and development processes. Proactively implement improvements that strengthen engineering quality and team efficiency.
- Clear technical communication: Create documentation, commit messages, and technical notes that make decisions and implementation details easy to understand. Maintain enough written context for teammates to continue work without requiring verbal handoffs.

## Who You Are

Beyond the qualifications, we hire through a specific lens. These aren't buzzwords; they're the things we'll actually look for in how you talk about your work.

You're a builder, not a maintainer.

You're most energized when there isn't a clear path yet, and you get to define it. You don't wait for direction; you identify gaps, shape solutions, and drive them forward. At Pendo, great Sr. Software Engineers don't just follow instructions; they operate as strategic advisors, influencing decisions, guiding stakeholders, and elevating how we work.

You're AI-curious - genuinely.

You're not using AI tools occasionally. You're rewiring how you work around them. You're faster, sharper, and more prolific because of it, and you bring that energy to everything — how you approach your work, how you prep, how you communicate, how you think. We want someone who sees AI as a multiplier, not a shortcut.

Must-haves

- 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering customer-facing SaaS product features in production environments.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language: Go, Java, Python, or C++.
- Deep understanding of scalable web architecture, API design, and performance optimization.
- Experience with AWS or GCP cloud platforms and both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Demonstrated ability to independently structure ambiguous technical work into small, deliverable increments and drive execution through completion.
- Experience designing and implementing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, with sound judgment about when to apply each approach.
- Familiarity with safe deployment and rollout practices, including feature flags, canary releases, or comparable approaches.
- Active use of AI tools in software development workflows.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design teams.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice-to-haves

- Experience improving team-level engineering tooling, development processes, or developer workflows beyond individual feature delivery.
- Experience mentoring engineers and strengthening team capabilities through technical documentation, constructive code reviews, or knowledge sharing.
- Experience contributing to shared platform capabilities that support multiple product areas.

## About Pendo

Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers, who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers: a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success. Our mission is to improve society's experience with software. Come join one of the fastest-growing startups, supported by best-in-class institutions like Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Meritech.

Pendo Core Values: Bias to Act, Hone Your Craft, The Team is Pendo, and Maniacal Focus.

Location: Pendo is a hybrid culture. In-office 3 days per week unless designated remote.

Compensation: The expected salary range for this role to be performed in Raleigh, NC is $135,000 - $150,000.

Benefits: Highly competitive, employer-heavy coverage (including $0 premium options), strong 401(k) match, equity, and flexible time off.

EEOC: We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams where everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome all people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Accessibility: Pendo is committed to working with, and providing access and reasonable accommodation to, applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you think you may require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send a request to: accommodation@pendo.io. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.

## About Pendo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pendo provides a comprehensive product experience platform that uses AI-powered analytics, in-app guidance, and user feedback to help companies improve software adoption and user experience.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Unicorn, Secondary Market)
- **Headquarters**: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- **Founded**: October 2013
- **Founders**: Eric Boduch, Erik Troan, Rahul Jain, Todd Olson

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Product Experience & Analytics Software, SaaS
- **Target customers**: B2B; serves a wide range from SMB and mid-market to large enterprises (Fortune 500, B2B tech, education, healthcare). Over 14,000 companies use Pendo across 115 different industries.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To elevate the world's experiences with software." [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/about/)

## Products & Services
- **[Pendo Platform]**: The core all-in-one product experience platform combining powerful software usage analytics, in-app guidance (walkthroughs, tooltips), and user feedback capabilities. It enables both technical and non-technical teams to deliver better product experiences. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/)
- **[Pendo Listen]**: An AI product launched in 2024 to help product teams take action on customer feedback and deliver returns on R&D investments. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pendo-io)
- **Mind the Product & Customer Communities**: Provides education, events, and training to support product and digital leaders globally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (Private Unicorn status).
- **Key Metric**: Surpassed **$200 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)** as of May 2024, with a record number of new products released during that fiscal year. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pendo-io)
- **Total Funding**: $469.5M raised. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pendo-io)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Thoma Bravo, Tiger Global Management. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pendo-io)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Processes over **20 billion daily events** and serves **1 billion+ monthly users**. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/about/)
  - Has collected **35 trillion events** to power its AI. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/)
  - Customers include major names like Verizon, Morgan Stanley, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pendo-io)
  - 850+ employees across 10 global offices. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/about/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive Proprietary Data Set**: The largest product data set in the world (35 trillion events), which powers a uniquely smart, real-time AI for products and agents. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/)
- **Comprehensive Platform**: Combines analytics, in-app guidance, and feedback in one platform, enabling non-technical teams (e.g., product managers, marketers) to act on data without engineering support.
- **Strong Community Moat**: Through "Mind the Product," Pendo has built a large, loyal community of product professionals, creating a powerful network effect and brand loyalty.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-First Innovation**: Heavily investing in AI, with a Chief AI Officer and new AI products like "Pendo Listen" to close the gap between AI spend and AI adoption. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/careers/)
- **Product-Led Growth**: Continuing to put "product at the center of everything," helping companies innovate at the speed of changing user needs.
- **Global Expansion**: Operating in 10 offices worldwide (Raleigh, San Francisco, New York, Herzliya, Tokyo, Sydney, London, Sheffield) with a clear focus on scaling international sales and engineering teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a blend of "startup thrill with grown-up responsibility." Values include "Maniacal Focus on the Customer," "Bias to Act," and "The TEAM is Pendo." The culture is ambitious, caring, and direct. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/careers/)
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Offers flexible work hours and a flexible time off policy. Many roles are available in specific offices (Raleigh, NYC, San Francisco, London, etc.) with some remote options (especially for EST-based roles). [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pendo)
- **Notable Perks**: 
  - Up to **16 weeks of paid parental leave** with a flexible return schedule. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/careers/)
  - Generous health and wellness plans (medical, dental, vision, mental health).
  - In-house management development classes, guest speaker lunch & learns, and conference attendance.
  - Fun workplace culture including board game nights, team karaoke, ping pong, weekly catered lunch, and local brews on the rooftop deck. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/careers/)
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to building teams that represent the communities they operate in, valuing diverse backgrounds and lived experiences. [pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/careers/)

## Sources
1. [Pendo Careers Page](https://www.pendo.io/careers/)
2. [Pendo About Page](https://www.pendo.io/about/)
3. [Pendo Product Page](https://www.pendo.io/)
4. [Pendo Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pendo)
5. [Pendo Crunchbase Profile](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pendo-io)

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