Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Drift Buyer Experience 

Location: Remote - Poland

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Although we’re proud of our history, we’re just as excited about the future.  We want to create a world-class culture and company that attracts, develops, engages and retains elite tech talent.  

Salesloft recently acquired Drift to bolster our platform offering and continue building world-class solutions. This specific role will support Drift’s Buyer Experience team, focused on revolutionizing how businesses communicate with buyers through conversational commerce.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Salesloft Drift team, you’ll be creating meaningful innovations that transform the global buying experience. You will have the opportunity to tackle some of the most meaningful problems in the industry—from building adaptive AI for bot-supported conversations to next-generation chat experiences. You will have the opportunity to make a difference.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

We are seeking individuals who are passionate about building conversational AI tools and can work across the frontend, backend, or full stack. You’ll play a key role in helping Drift redefine conversational commerce, driving change in how buyers interact with sellers in real-time.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for:

• Leading in planning and grooming sessions
• Coding and developing new features
• Reviewing code from your teammates
• Providing ongoing support for the product in production
• Creating infrastructure that processes billions of messages to help identify buyer intent and prioritize conversations.

If you’re passionate about cutting-edge technology and thrive in a fast-paced environment focused on transforming the buyer experience, this role is for you!

THE TEAM:

Our Drift Buyer Experience product team is a close-knit group of engineers, PMs, and designers who focus on real-time interactions, adaptive AI, and innovative messaging tools that drive success for our customers. The product teams working on Drift are designed to feel like small garage bands—fostering autonomy, innovation, and rapid releases. You will work in an environment that celebrates transparency, collaboration, and continuous learning.

As part of the Buyer Experience team, you'll collaborate with colleagues from sales, customer success, and marketing to ensure our products deliver value and connect buyers with sellers instantly.

The team is also the epitome of our core values and every day they… Lead with humility and respect, Earn customer trust, Put team over self, Redefine what’s possible and Deliver big results. 

THE SKILL SET:

• 5+ years of experience building large scale web applications
• Proficiency in Java and React, with a strong focus on Dropwizard (90%) and some experience with Spring Boot
• Experience in an environment like AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres (Citus), Elastic Search, and Kafka

WITHIN ONE MONTH, YOU’LL:

• Attend Salesloft’s New Hire Orientation, where you will learn our Salesloft story and understand what makes our “Lofters” unique 
• Attend the half day introduction to Salesloft Engineering, where you will get a high level introduction to the architecture of the platform and learn the basic processes of the Engineering Team
• Begin 1:1’s with your manager, understand your 30-60-90 plan, and be assigned to a development team.
• Set your OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) with your manager and develop an action plan to achieve them
• Regularly commit production code

WITHIN THREE MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Be very knowledgeable of your team’s surface area
• Be able to take significant ownership for developing a new feature  

WITHIN SIX MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Be a lead contributor to team planning and execution
• Be mentoring engineers on engineering practices and coding standards
• Achieve the results defined in your first set of OKRs 

IS THIS ROLE NOT AN EXACT FIT? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!

WHY YOU’LL LOVE SALESLOFT: 

At Salesloft, we're not just a company, we're a community built on shared values. 

• Lead With Humility and Respect
• Earn Customer Trust
• Put Team Over Self
• Redefine What’s Possible
• Deliver Big Results.

Since our founding in 2011, we have grown into a global, award-winning organization with Lofters based all over the world. As a testament to our organizational health, we have been named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2021, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2022 Healthiest Employers, three times by Deloitte as a ‘Fastest-Growing Technology Company in North America,’ and have been recognized as a top workplace by Fortune, Glassdoor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Inc Magazine. 

In addition to our stand-out organizational health: 

• 2024 Best Places to Work Certified for a fourth consecutive year
• Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Revenue Orchestration Platforms for B2B, Q3 2024 ● G2 Enterprise Sales Engagement Leader 15 consecutive quarters
• Recognized by Gartner Peer Insights as a Customer’s Choice in 2023 Voice of the Customer for Sales Engagement Applications
• G2 recently ranked us #1 in Enterprise Sales Engagement and we were named a leader in the 2022 Forrester Wave for Sales Engagement. We received the highest possible score in 26 out of 30 criteria, more than any other vendor evaluated in our category.

Salesloft delivers a performance force multiplier for the world’s most demanding companies. Salesloft’s Revenue Orchestration Platform, delivering the first AI-powered durable revenue engagement model, keeps market-facing teams on top of all buyer signals, with outcomes-driven prioritization so they always act first on what matters most. Thousands of the world’s most successful sales teams, like those at Google, 3M, IBM, Shopify, Square, and Cisco, drive more revenue with Salesloft. 

IS THIS ROLE NOT AN EXACT FIT? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!

WHY SHOULD YOU WORK AT SALESLOFT:

• You will become part of an amazing culture with a supportive CEO and smart teammates who actually care
• You will work with an amazing team you can learn from and teach
• You will experience joining a high-growth/high-trajectory organization
• You will hear “Yes, let’s do that!” and then have the opportunity to successfully execute on your ideas
• You will build community with Lofters of many cultures and backgrounds through ERGs and DEI initiatives
• We have a vibrant, open office that utilizes modern technology
• You will grow more here than you would anywhere else, that is a promise
  

Salesloft is committed to creating a sense of belonging for all Lofters. We integrate representation and inclusion into Salesloft’s core by establishing and meeting specific, time-bound objectives for fair hiring and career growth. We prioritize actionable steps over terminology, and showcase how a genuinely diverse and inclusive culture enhances our financial success and overall performance. 

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

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