Lead Product Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 11 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to in-demand skills required, potential for growth within the company, and commitment to employee development.
- Focus on high-impact backend systems development
- Opportunities to engage with modern technologies
- Suitable for versatile developers excited about growth
Pros
- Strong focus on innovative backend systems and tools
- Opportunity to work on high-impact projects
- Engagement with a variety of modern technologies
Cons
- High expectations in terms of output
- Candidates need to be versatile across various platforms
- Limited information about salary package
Who it's for
Senior • Hybrid with remote flexibility
Good fit
- Experienced backend engineers
- Tech-savvy developers open to innovations
- Individuals interested in solving complex problems
Not recommended for
- Novice developers without relevant experience
- Candidates preferring strictly frontend roles
- Those not open to rapidly changing tech landscapes
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Sprinklr is a leading enterprise software company for all customer-facing functions. With advanced AI, Sprinklr's unified customer experience management (Unified-CXM) platform helps companies deliver human experiences to every customer, every time, across any modern channel. Headquartered in New York City with employees around the world, Sprinklr works with more than 1,000 of the world’s most valuable enterprises — global brands like Microsoft, P&G, Samsung and more than 50% of the Fortune 100.
Learn more about our culture and how we make our employees happier through The Sprinklr Way.
Job Description
What Does Success Look Like?
We are hiring a Lead Backend Engineer to drive the design and development of backend services and APIs that power our CPaaS platform. You’ll work on high-throughput, event- driven systems supporting voice routing, provisioning, billing, analytics, and more. This role demands a strong foundation in distributed systems, API design, and real-time architecture.
Seniority Level: Seniority Level: Backend Lead / Tech Owner
What You’ll Do:
- Design and implement scalable RESTful APIs and backend services for CPaaS workflows (number provisioning, SIP trunking, user auth, call logs, etc.).
- Work closely with VoIP team to expose APIs for call control, diagnostics, and session tracking.
- Build asynchronous workflows using message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS).
- Own database models, caching strategies, retry logic, and service reliability patterns.
- Ensure system observability with structured logging, metrics, tracing, alerts.
- Partner with QA to build automated tests, mocks, and integration coverage.
- Contribute to internal documentation, runbooks, and deployment playbooks.
What Makes You Qualified?
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development in distributed systems.
- Strong systems programming and debugging skills in Java.
- Solid expertise in REST APIs and micro service architecture.
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and API rate limiting strategies.
- Understanding of distributed systems patterns — retries, idempotency, circuit breakers.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps, containerization, and cloud deployment (AWS preferred).
Why You'll Love Sprinklr:
We're committed to creating a culture where you feel like you belong, are happier today than you were yesterday, and your contributions matter. At Sprinklr, we passionately, genuinely care. For full-time employees, we provide a range of comprehensive health plans, leading well-being programs, and financial protection for you and your family through a range of global and localized plans throughout the world.
For more information on Sprinklr Benefits around the world, head to https://sprinklrbenefits.com/ to browse our country-specific benefits guides.
We focus on our mission: We founded Sprinklr with one mission: to enable every organization on the planet to make their customers happier. Our vision is to be the world’s most loved enterprise software company, ever.
We believe in our product: Sprinklr was built from the ground up to enable a brand’s digital transformation. Its platform provides every customer-facing team with the ability to reach, engage, and listen to customers around the world. At Sprinklr, we have many of the world's largest brands as our clients, and our employees have the opportunity to work closely alongside them.
We invest in our people: At Sprinklr, we believe every human has the potential to be amazing. We empower each Sprinklrite in the journey toward achieving their personal and professional best. For wellbeing, this includes daily meditation breaks, virtual fitness, and access to Headspace. We have continuous learning opportunities available with LinkedIn Learning and more.
EEO - Our philosophy: Our goal is to ensure every employee feels like they belong and are operating in a judgment-free zone regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age, and lifestyle preference, among others. We value and celebrate diversity and fervently believe every employee matters and should be respected and heard. We believe we are stronger when we belong because collectively, we’re more innovative, creative, and successful.
Sprinklr is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative-action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. See also Sprinklr’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.
