Senior Software Engineer (, AWS)

Position Overview

Spend your days making a difference not just working for a living. We do that by creating Security Risk management Compliance and audit software that uncovers fraud waste environmental risk and abuse in their organizations. Our collaborative R&D teams use Serverless AWS technologies to build our SaaS platform and tackle strategic business challenges creating highly impactful solutions for today and for our future to support Modern Governance.

The ideal candidate will have proven ability to apply effective analysis design programming and testing skills to produce and maintain scaled SaaS software solutions. You will work as part of an established team who are used to working together to achieve excellent results. Youll have the chance to take ownership of the features youre working on actively suggest improvements to how we design and build software and support more junior team members by sharing your knowledge and helping the team grow and perform even better over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Design code review and test assigned features and user stories in alignment with Diligents agile development methodology leveraging AI tools where appropriate to enhance development efficiency.

• Produce high-level technical design artifacts for major stories incorporating insights and optimizations informed.

• Influence the future architecture of the product by defining and refining major components and sub-systems including the delivery of back-end prototypespotentially accelerating prototyping with AI-based development tools.

• Collaborate effectively with other development teams production operations and cross-functional technology groups to ensure smooth regular delivery of high-quality software to streamline communication and task coordination.

• Ensure all work is completed and documented according to required standards methods and procedures while adopting AI tools to enhance knowledge sharing and documentation efficiency.

• Manage personal workflow and task prioritization to meet deadlines to support time management and productivity tracking.

• Serve as the technical owner of Epics including complex initiatives that span multiple workstreams in breaking down and organizing work.

• Lead technical architecture and implementation of platform-level initiatives exploring AI-driven design tools where beneficial.

• Demonstrate reliability in handling complex tasks with minimal supervision while knowing when to delegate effectively; ensure completion of work with end-to-end ownership supported by intelligent task management tools.
• Actively participate in continuous process improvement by identifying opportunities and proposing enhancements during retrospectivesencouraging and applying AI-driven insights to refine team workflows.

Required Experience/Skills

• Strong experience in a hands-on development role at a commercial software company

• Demonstrable experience of devising and delivering changes to large/complex products

• Excellent understanding one of (or all) our technologies: NodeJS TypeScript React
  
  
• Experience in API and web development

• Problem-solver attitude - Technology agnostic approach

• Experience of designing and delivering security solutions in an environment that embraces DevOps and IaC concepts and common technologies with a focus on pipeline security automation (DevSecOps)

• Experience with Microservices architecture

• Commitment to producing well tested and documented code

• Good understanding of RESTFul Services

• Strong code review mentoring and refactoring skills

• Creative and innovative problem-solving skills

• Experience working on an agile team providing estimates and reporting progress

• Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams

• Keen to improve processes and share knowledge across the team

• Familiarity with Source Code Control Systems (esp Git GitHub) and common branching models such as GitFlow

• Be passionate about delivering value to our customers

• Good mentoring skills

• Experience using AI-powered tools (e.g. for code generation static analysis or testing) to enhance development speed and reduce manual effort is a plus.

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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.

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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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