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.
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Position Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer, your primary task involves developing resilient, scalable, and well-protected microservices that drive our SaaS platform, simplifying governance for our clients. You'll harness the complete capabilities of AWS and concentrate on constructing Serverless solutions, which may involve creating entirely new services or aiding in the migration of existing ones to a Serverless framework, predominantly using Node.js and TypeScript.
As an integral member of our central governance units, your team assumes complete ownership of their services, spanning the entire lifecycle from coding to deployment and ongoing monitoring. Additionally, you'll consistently showcase your progress to the entire department through regular demonstrations.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing and developing web applications using the MERN stack components.
- Responsible to prepare high-level technical design artifacts for platform-level initiatives
- Develop high-quality code (e.g. adhering to SOLID principles) with plenty of tests and observability baked-in.
- Implement secure and scalable solutions using AWS serverless technology.
- Monitoring application performance and responding to incidents
- Optimize your team’s development, and delivery experience, so you and your team can be as productive as possible and regularly deploy to production.
- Optimizing application performance by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in the codebase.
- Implementing techniques like lazy loading, code splitting, and caching to improve user experience.
- Technical owner of Epics of all sizes, sometimes involving more than one workstream.
- Should be able to lead technical architecture and implementation of platform-level initiatives
- Responsible and dependable to take on challenging tasks with minimal supervision
- Work in a collaborative environment where you regularly pair, plan, and execute tasks as a team and strive to optimize your team’s Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Mean-time-to-recovery, and Change Failure Rate.
- Actively participate in enhancing processes by consistently offering improvement suggestions during team retrospectives.
- Independently manage your deliverables in JIRA without others’ involvement.
What you need to succeed
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Math, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience delivering secure applications in an agile environment.
- Proficiency in developing RESTful APIs using NodeJS and/or TypeScript in Open API specifications.
- Experience in SQL & NoSQL Databases like MySQL, DynamoDB etc. Experience includes data modeling and efficient queries.
- Proficiency in React.js and modern JavaScript to build interactive and responsive user interfaces.
- Experience with AWS services, CDK/Terraform is a must.
- Experience working with Docker in development.
- Understanding of event-driven microservices architecture.
- Experience working in Agile and Kanban/Scrum processes.
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.
We are a drug free workplace. 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 Know Your Rights. 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].
To all recruitment agencies: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Diligent employees or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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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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