Software Engineer II

About Us

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, 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. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

Learn more at diligent.com.

Position Overview: 

Diligent is looking for someone who has a strong knowledge of development to join our Centre for Global Product Innovation in Budapest and together build our new comprehensive Data Platform. We collect information from tens of thousands of sources and process this large amount of data with various tools including ML classification, NLP, and tagging to provide input for our Data Science team and deliver invaluable insights tailored to our clients, all built on native AWS. 

The ideal candidate will have proven ability to apply effective analysis, design, programming, and testing skills to produce and maintain scaled SaaS software solutions. They will be driven, resourceful and not feel intimidated by significant technical challenges. They will want to take ownership of the features they are working on, proactively drive improvements in software design and development practices, and might work with more junior members of the team to help develop their skills and optimize the performance of the team over time. 

 
Key Responsibilities  

• In addition to core development activities for core modules and integration projects, you will be required to: 

• Design, code, review and test assigned features and user stories, in accordance with the agile methodology employed by Diligent. 

• Influence the design of the future state of the product, including separating out major components and sub-systems, designing and delivering prototypes, especially for back-end components. 

• Collaborate with the product owner and engineering manager in the analysis and documentation of technical requirements and user stories for assigned features. 

• Assist with production of high quality operational and system documentation as required. 

• Communicate effectively with other development teams, production operations, and several other technology groups, to ensure regular smooth delivery of working software to production. 

 

Required Experience/Skills 

 

• 2+ years’ experience in a hands-on development role at a commercial software company 

• Experience (2+ years) with Python 

• Experience with cloud tools, cloud native development, IaC, preferably AWS. 

• Problem-solver attitude - Technology agnostic approach 

• Good written and oral communications 

• Solid troubleshooting ability and skills 

• Ability to contribute to the effectiveness of a high-performing agile team, and to the product innovation. 

• Successfully manage own workload, and take personal responsibility and ownership for delivery, behaviours, and self-improvement 
• Keen to improve processes and share knowledge across the team. 

 

Preferred Experience/Skills 

 

• Experience with Django framework. 

• Experience with PostgreSQL and/or ElasticSearch. 

• Experience with Microservices architecture. 

• Experience with REST API 

• Test Driven Development experience. 

• CI/CD experience, containers, cloud deployments, GitHub actions 

• Experience with AWS CDK, TypeScript 

• Experience with Agile/SCRUM/Lean software development. 

• Keen to learn more about new languages and frameworks. 
• Familiarity with Git/GitHub and Gitflow. 

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 programs to 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., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney. 

 

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