Staff Software Engineer

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:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be creating robust, scalable, and secure microservices that power our SaaS platform and make governance easy for our customers. Your expertise in software development best practices, programming languages, and system design will be critical in driving innovation and excellence within the organization.

You’ll have the full power of AWS at your disposal, and you’ll be focused on building serverless solutions (either brand new, or assisting in migrating services to serverless), typically in TypeScript. As part of our core governance teams, your team will fully own their services (from code to deployment and monitoring), you’ll participate in architecture discussion, and regularly demo to the entire department.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrates strong technical leadership, typically across multiple teams​ by delivering high-quality software solutions ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, product managers, designers, and stakeholders to define project requirements and deliver solutions that meet business goals.
• Able to spot the biggest pain points of the systems you’re working with and propose solutions to improve​.
• Able to influence the engineering culture and practices of the teams, works with self-confidence with stakeholders outside of own team as well​.
• Experienced mentor providing technical guidance and inspiring the team to achieve goals, helping them to grow and develop skills.
• Individual Contributor who takes up complex and challenging tasks and completes them without Manager’s involvement and supervision.​
• Conduct constructive code reviews, ensure code quality, and promote best practices in software development so everyone can go and learn alongside you.

Required Experience/Skills 

• 7-10 years of professional experience delivering secure applications in an agile environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Math, or related field.
• Expertise in Python and Typescript\JavaScript programming languages with pytest automation framework.
• Experienced in dealing with of Web Technologies (Web Applications, REST APIs, Web/API Security) using Python and related technologies.
• Deep understanding of SOLID principles, design patterns, data structure and test-driven development, OWASP Top 10 security risks
• Proficient in designing and managing scalable, high-performance relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB). Strong Database Design Fundamentals understanding normalization, indexing techniques, ACID properties and query optimization techniques etc.
• Proficiency in AWS cloud provider, particularly strong understanding of Core AWS services such as EC2, ECS, Fargate, S3, Lambda, Event Bridge, SQS, SNS, IAM roles and policies. Fundamentals of networking in AWS like VPC, AZs etc.
• Understanding of DevOps tools and processes, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, code build & code pipeline, CDK.
• Extensive experience with serverless technologies and microservices architectures.

Preferred Experience/Skills:

• Experience with AWS AI services like SageMaker, Rekognition, Textract, Comprehend.
• Experience with AWS Glue, Datawarehouse with RedShift and QuickSight.
• Experience with data processing (ETL processing tools)
• Proven track record of leading and delivering complex projects.
• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Experience working with Agile and Kanban / Scrum processes and agile methodologies.

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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