Senior Software Engineer
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About Us
Diligent is the AI leader in governance risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions helping more than 1 million users and 700000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk build greater resilience and make better decisions faster.
Position Overview:
As a Senior Software Engineer at Diligent youll be hands-on in shaping the future of our platform by designing and delivering secure scalable and high-performing microservices that power our SaaS solutions. Youll have the full power of AWS at your disposal and will work primarily in TypeScript to build serverless solutions either from the ground up or by modernizing existing services.
In this role youll lead by example owning services end-to-end from development to deployment and monitoring driving architectural discussions and mentoring others across the team. Youll be a key voice in evolving our engineering practices and will actively champion the use of AI-powered tools to streamline development improve quality and boost team productivity.
Were looking for someone who is not only passionate about building great software but also excited to explore how AI can unlock faster ways of working for themselves and their teammates.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and own secure scalable services guiding technical decisions and evaluating trade-offs (including AI-driven components) to meet reliability performance and cost goals.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate coding debugging testing and prototyping while rigorously validating outputs to ensure quality and safety.
- Advise on appropriate AI use (model concepts prompt patterns ethical/privacy considerations) embed monitoring and compliance checks into workflows and document residual risks and mitigations.
- Coach peers on engineering best practices and AI-augmented approaches; partner with Product Security DevOps and other teams to align on features deployment and compliance.
- Scout and pilot emerging tools or frameworks (including AI toolchains) integrate automated governance checks into pipelines and enhance observability and incident response with an eye on productivity cost and resilience.
Required Experience/Skills
- 5-7 years of professional software engineering in an agile environment delivering secure scalable services.
- Understands high-level LLM concepts (e.g. hallucinations prompt sensitivity) and safe vs. unsafe AI use cases.
- Experienced in using AI tools to accelerate coding debugging testing and prototyping with critical review of outputs.
- Skilled in prompt engineeringdesigning reusable prompts and coaching peers.
- Familiar with ethical/cost risks (bias privacy vendor lock-in) and embeds basic compliance checks into workflows.
- Proficient in for RESTful APIs (OpenAPI) and hands-on AWS serverless patterns.
- Comfortable with infrastructure as code (CDK/Terraform) containerization (Docker) CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools.
What Diligent Offers You
- Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
- We care about our people.Diligent offers a flexible work environment global days of service comprehensive health benefits meeting free days generous time off policy and wellness programsto name a few
- We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City but we have office hubs in Washington D.C. Vancouver London Galway Budapest Munich Bengaluru Singapore and Sydney.
- Diversity is important to us. Growing maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team facilitate dialogue and foster understanding.
Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate smart and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future but who want to make the world a more sustainable equitable and better place.
Headquartered in New York Diligent has offices in Washington D.C. London Galway Budapest Vancouver Bengaluru Munich Singapore and Sydney. To foster strong collaboration and connection this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations you will be expected towork onsite at least 50% of the time.We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation teamwork and a strong sense of community.
We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race color religious creed sex national origin ancestry citizenship status pregnancy childbirth physical disability mental disability age military status protected veteran status marital status registered domestic partner or civil union status gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression) medical condition (including but not limited to cancer related or HIV/AIDS related) genetic information or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal state and local also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements. See alsoDiligents EEO Policy and Know Your are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability you may contact us at .
To all recruitment agencies: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias Diligent employees or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
