Software Engineer II (MERN Stack)

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.

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Position Overview:

As a Software Engineer II at Diligent youll take on a hands-on technical role in building secure scalable and high-performing serverless microservices using TypeScript on AWS. Youll contribute meaningfully to our mission of making governance effortless for our customers working in a team that owns its services end to endfrom architecture and implementation to monitoring and continuous improvement.

This role is ideal for a mid-level engineer who writes solid code mentors others and embraces AI-powered tools to work smarter and faster. Youll guide junior engineers shape architectural discussions and help scale modern development practices including responsible use of AI in workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and deliver well-defined stories independently with a clear grasp of team architecture frameworks and tools.
• Actively contribute to code reviews testing practices and maintain service stability.
• Support and guide junior engineers (SE-I) fostering collaboration knowledge sharing and constructive feedback.
• Maintain healthy development flow by adhering to Agile processes and driving iterative enhancements.
• Use AI tools to accelerate coding debugging testing research and code reviews always validating outputs and applying judgment.
• Understand core LLM concepts (e.g. tokens context length hallucinations) recognize safe vs. unsafe use cases and flag ethical privacy or cost concerns.

Required Experience/Skills

• 35 years of professional software engineering experience in an agile fast-paced environment.
• Familiar with core AI concepts (tokens context length embeddings hallucinations) understands high-level LLM behavior and recognizes safe vs. unsafe use cases (privacy security fairness).
• AI Tooling & Practices: Uses AI to boost productivity (e.g. test scenarios architecture drafts research) skilled in prompt engineering (instruction vs. few-shot) and evaluates AI outputs responsibly (bias cost ethics).
• Backend Proficiency: Builds RESTful APIs with works with Docker/container workflows employs Git for version control and has hands-on experience with SQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL).
• Frontend familiarity: Experience using React or Angular for modern web interfaces.
• Cloud & infrastructure basics: Hands-on with AWS services; familiarity with infrastructure as code (CDK Terraform) is a plus.
• CI/CD mindset: Experience or interest in CI/CD pipeline setup and exploring AI-assisted DevOps tooling.
• Collaboration & communication: Comfortable discussing architectural decisions documenting designs (potentially with AI assistance) and presenting technical ideas clearly.

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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