Senior Software Engineer (Python)

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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.

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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 backend services that power our SaaS solutions. Youll work extensively with Python to build cloud-native and serverless solutions on AWSeither from the ground up or by modernizing existing systems.

In this role youll own services end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and monitoring. Youll lead by example in architectural discussions mentor engineers across the team and help evolve our engineering standards. Youll also actively champion the use of AI-powered development tools to streamline workflows improve quality and increase team productivity.

Were looking for someone who is passionate about building great software in Python and excited about how AI-augmented engineering can unlock faster safer and more effective ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Design build and own secure scalable Python services making informed technical trade-offs to meet reliability performance and cost objectives.

• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and event-driven services using Python frameworks (e.g. FastAPI Flask Django) and AWS-native patterns.

• Leverage AI tools to accelerate coding debugging testing and prototyping while critically validating outputs to ensure correctness security and maintainability.

• Advise on appropriate AI usage including LLM concepts prompt patterns and ethical/privacy considerations; embed monitoring logging and compliance checks into workflows.

• Lead and participate in architectural discussions; document designs decisions residual risks and mitigations.

• Coach and mentor peers on Python best practices cloud-native design and AI-augmented development approaches.

• Partner closely with Product Security DevOps and Data teams to align on features deployment strategies and compliance requirements.

• Scout evaluate and pilot emerging tools frameworks and AI toolchains; integrate automated governance and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines.

• Improve observability incident response and operational resilience with a focus on reliability productivity and cost efficiency.

Required Experience & Skills

• 57 years of professional software engineering experience primarily using Python delivering secure and scalable backend services in an agile environment.

• Strong proficiency in Python and backend frameworks (e.g. FastAPI Flask Django) for building production-grade APIs and services.

• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs (OpenAPI/Swagger) and asynchronous or event-driven systems.

• Solid understanding of AWS (e.g. Lambda ECS/EKS S3 RDS DynamoDB API Gateway) and cloud-native or serverless architectures.

• Comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform AWS CDK or similar) containerization (Docker) and modern CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and/or NoSQL stores; able to design optimize and troubleshoot schemas and queries.

• Applies security best practices in code and cloud environments (IAM secrets management least privilege secure API design).

• Working knowledge of LLM concepts (e.g. hallucinations prompt sensitivity model limitations) and safe vs. unsafe AI use cases.

• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools with a critical eye toward accuracy safety and maintainability.

• Skilled in prompt engineering including designing reusable prompts and coaching peers on effective usage.

• Familiar with ethical privacy and cost risks (bias data leakage vendor lock-in) and able to embed basic compliance checks into workflows.

• Strong communication skills able to explain technical and AI-related concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven ability to mentor or guide peers and influence engineering best practices.

• Familiarity with frontend frameworks (e.g. React or Angular) to collaborate effectively on end-to-end features.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related fieldor equivalent practical experience.

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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.

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