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 based out of our technical center of excellence in Vancouver, you will be working alongside a group of passionate and talented individuals in building Diligent’s foundational platform services. 

You will be creating and owning robust, scalable, and secure microservices that power our SaaS platform, enabling our external and internal customers.  With the full power of AWS at your disposal, you’ll be focused on building Serverless solutions, primarily in NodeJS and TypeScript.  Your team will fully own their services (from code to deployment and monitoring), you’ll present and guide architecture discussions, and regularly demo to the entire department.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Design and implement secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, high-performance, yet simple solutions using AWS Serverless technology. These solutions should strive to be event-driven, highly observable, with infrastructure as code, and tightly leveraging AWS’s ecosystem of services. 
• Optimize your development and delivery experience to maximize your team’s productivity and deploy continuously to production. 
• Lead in a collaborative environment where you regularly pair, plan, and execute tasks as a team and strive to optimize your team’s DORA metrics. 
• Regularly engage related disciplines and departments so you understand our external and internal customer challenges and suggest solutions and improvements. 
• Mentor through constructive code reviews so everyone can grow and learn alongside you. 
• Can lead through uncertainty when needed and help a team navigate through ambiguity to successful delivery. 

Required Experience/Skills 

• 7+ years of professional experience developing and owning high-scale, secure cloud applications in an agile environment. 
• 4+ years of experience with a variety (and depth) of AWS services. 
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases including proficiency in database design and query optimization. 
• Strong ability to develop highly readable and well-tested code that adheres to SOLID principles. 
• Ability to contribute to a high-performing agile team, and to product innovation. 
• Passion for learning and sharing your knowledge with others. 
• Excitement for understanding our customers and their problems, so that we can improve governance all around the world. 
• Experience with AWS CDK (or Terraform, Cloud Formation), TypeScript, and React. 
• Experience with Microservices architecture and Event-driven architecture. 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing on AWS. 

Preferred Experience/Skills 

• Team and/or delivery leadership, comfortable with driving discussions and taking charge. 

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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