Senior Software Engineer

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 Senior Software Engineer your primary task involves developing resilient scalable and well-protected microservices that drive our SaaS platform simplifying governance for our clients. Youll harness the complete capabilities of AWS and concentrate on constructing Serverless solutions which may involve creating entirely new services or aiding in the migration of existing ones to a Serverless framework predominantly using and TypeScript.

As an integral member of our central governance units your team assumes complete ownership of their services spanning the entire lifecycle from coding to deployment and ongoing monitoring. Additionally youll consistently showcase your progress to the entire department through regular demonstrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and developing web applications using the MERN stack components.

• Responsible to prepare high-level technical design artifacts for platform-level initiatives

• Develop high-quality code (e.g. adhering to SOLID principles) with plenty of tests and observability baked-in.

• Implement secure and scalable solutions using AWS serverless technology.

• Monitoring application performance and responding to incidents

• Optimize your teams development and delivery experience so you and your team can be as productive as possible and regularly deploy to production.

• Optimizing application performance by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in the codebase.

• Implementing techniques like lazy loading code splitting and caching to improve user experience.

• Technical owner of Epics of all sizes sometimes involving more than one workstream.

• Should be able to lead technical architecture and implementation of platform-level initiatives

• Responsible and dependable to take on challenging tasks with minimal supervision

• Work in a collaborative environment where you regularly pair plan and execute tasks as a team and strive to optimize your teams Lead Time Deployment Frequency Mean-time-to-recovery and Change Failure Rate.

• Actively participate in enhancing processes by consistently offering improvement suggestions during team retrospectives.

• Independently manage your deliverables in JIRA without others involvement.

What you need to succeed

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Math or a related field.

• 5 years of professional experience delivering secure applications in an agile environment.

• Proficiency in developing RESTful APIs using NodeJS and/or TypeScript in Open API specifications.

• Experience in SQL & NoSQL Databases like MySQL DynamoDB etc. Experience includes data modeling and efficient queries.

• Proficiency and modern JavaScript to build interactive and responsive user interfaces.

• Experience with AWS services CDK/Terraform is a must.

• Experience working with Docker in development.

• Understanding of event-driven microservices architecture.

• Experience working in Agile and Kanban/Scrum processes.

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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