Role Overview
Build reliable software services that power products, platforms, and business decisions. As a Senior Software Developer, you’ll design and deliver scalable applications, backend services, and integrations that perform well in production and evolve with changing business needs.
You’ll apply strong software engineering practices across APIs, data-intensive applications, cloud services, AI-enabled solutions, and deployment pipelines. You’ll help shape technical solutions, improve system reliability, and contribute to a high-quality engineering culture.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff)- Design and develop scalable backend services and applications using Python or TypeScript.
- Lead the development of APIs, integrations, reusable software components, and AI-enabled features.
- Build reliable solutions for data ingestion, manipulation, service-to-service communication, and intelligent automation.
- Apply AI technologies and modern software engineering practices to improve product capabilities, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
- Make sound technical decisions around architecture, performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
- Deploy and operate applications using AWS services and CI/CD practices while improving testing, monitoring, documentation, and delivery standards.
- 5+ years of professional experience developing and delivering production software.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python; TypeScript or similar languages is also valuable.
- Proven experience building backend services, APIs, integrations, and service-oriented applications.
- Experience applying AI technologies, such as generative AI, machine learning services, intelligent automation, or AI-enabled application features.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, testing, debugging, performance optimization, and secure development.
- Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and familiarity with Git-based CI/CD practices.
- Clear communication and the ability to collaborate on technical direction and delivery.
- Experience building data-intensive applications, ingestion services, or distributed systems.
- Familiarity with containers, infrastructure as code, observability, workflow orchestration, or MLOps.
- Experience with streaming technologies, automated quality practices, or modern AI application patterns such as LLM integrations, prompt engineering, or retrieval-augmented generation.
About Us
Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 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.
Learn more at diligent.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook
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., 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 to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.
Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and US EEOC’s Know Your Rights. We are a drug free workplace.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional experience developing and delivering production software
- Strong hands-on experience with Python
- Experience with TypeScript or similar languages
- Experience building backend services, APIs, integrations, and service-oriented applications
- Experience applying AI technologies, including generative AI, machine learning services, intelligent automation, or AI-enabled application features
- Understanding of software design principles, testing, debugging, performance optimization, and secure development
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
- Familiarity with Git-based CI/CD practices
- Clear communication and ability to collaborate on technical direction and delivery
- Experience building data-intensive applications, ingestion services, or distributed systems
- Familiarity with containers, infrastructure as code, observability, workflow orchestration, or MLOps
- Experience with streaming technologies, automated quality practices, LLM integrations, prompt engineering, or retrieval-augmented generation
Diligent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Diligent and has not been reviewed or approved by Diligent.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options. Wellness programs are also highlighted as part of the package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer match in the U.S. and regional plans internationally. This structure underscores support for long-term savings.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is framed as flexible with “unlimited PTO” and periodic recharge weeks in some areas. Parental leave is also promoted within the global package.
Diligent Insights
What We Do
Diligent is the leading GRC SaaS provider, serving nearly 1 million users from 25,000 organizations around the world. Our software enables holistic and informed conversations about governance, risk and compliance and ensures CEOs, CFOs and the board have an integrated view of audit, risk, information security, ethics and compliance from across the organization. Our world-changing idea is to bring technology, insights and confidence to leaders so they can build more effective, equitable, and successful organizations – and create lasting, positive impact on the world. We seek to empower organizations to be better for their stakeholders and communities, for their customers and employees, for their bottom line. Headquartered in New York, Diligent also has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney.
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