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Build and automate infrastructure while supporting migration to AWS. Develop internal engineering and AI-agent tooling, architect secure and highly available applications, modernize WordPress systems, troubleshoot complex environments, and provide rotating 24/7 on-call support. The role also requires designing AWS multi-account strategies, developing CI/CD pipelines, applying specification-driven development, monitoring systems, forecasting cloud costs, and supporting scalable web applications.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of payment systems, oversee key subsystems, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality code and architectural standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead technical direction and delivery for order management systems supporting checkout, order lifecycles, fulfillment orchestration, and partner integrations. Design reliable distributed services and workflows, make architectural tradeoffs, and improve scalability, correctness, observability, testing, and operational readiness. Partner cross-functionally to define scope and outcomes, lead incidents and remediation, manage launches, and mentor engineers. Work across Go, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kafka, Temporal, Datadog, and AI-assisted development tools.

Technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and scaling the developer portal and PaaS. Drive architectural direction, write and review code, mentor engineering teams, collaborate with SRE and stakeholders, evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot complex issues, and improve engineering processes and platform reliability.

Build, maintain, and operate Ookla’s globally distributed infrastructure platform at massive scale. Responsibilities include managing cloud instances, containers, serverless applications, databases, streaming systems, and big-data tooling; supporting 24/7 production operations and on-call rotations; implementing security programs; improving deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, and reliability; and guiding software and data engineering teams on operational best practices and troubleshooting.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

Design and build web applications supporting member enrollment, including eligibility verification, benefit matching, signup, and activation. Write tested, maintainable code; design scalable APIs; participate in architecture and technical decisions; use AI coding agents throughout development; collaborate with Product and Marketing; monitor system reliability; and participate in on-call support for the enrollment pipeline.

Leads architects and defines enterprise architecture strategy across consumer banking platforms. Provides technical direction, mentorship, and oversight; aligns technology solutions with business objectives; presents to architecture boards and executives; and drives product, solution, modernization, cloud, integration, resilience, and investment strategies across the organization.

Lead architecture and delivery across Rails backends and React frontends, build Node.js and NestJS platform integrations, establish testing and code-quality standards, mentor engineers, review code, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience. The role requires technical ownership across multiple backend technologies and leadership in AI-assisted development practices.

Build and maintain full-stack features across Ruby on Rails, React, and Flutter. Own work from architecture through production deployment, translate user needs into pragmatic solutions, make architectural decisions, improve reliability and performance, address technical debt, resolve production issues, mentor teammates, and help establish engineering standards in a remote-first startup.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. Manage priorities and deliverables, participate in design reviews, perform code reviews, triage and debug issues, contribute documentation, and collaborate in cross-functional agile teams to build scalable web applications.

Lead and grow a DevOps team responsible for AWS/Azure infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability, observability, incident response, and FinOps. Set technical direction for IaC, pipelines, and service management while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Security and participating in on-call rotation.

The Staff Engineer will lead cross-functional teams, focus on AI development practices, ensure scalable engineering, and evolve system architecture at ParentSquare.

The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.

The Staff Engineer will lead the Systems team, design scalable cloud infrastructure, optimize data pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and security.

Lead architecture and design of full-stack, cross-pod systems; set engineering standards for quality, security, performance, and observability; mentor and grow engineers; partner with Product and Partners on technical strategy; own incident response and reliability; participate in on-call rotation and hiring/onboarding.

Lead the Lister engineering domain, owning roadmap, delivery, technical health, partner data quality, and team growth. Manage three pods via team leads, stay hands-on with architecture and code reviews, partner cross-functionally, own intake and reliability, and hire/mentor engineers to scale backend services and data pipelines that integrate messy third-party partner systems.

Build and maintain resilient backend systems, participate across the product development lifecycle, collaborate with product and design, raise engineering standards, think through system lifecycles and failure modes, and contribute broadly at an early-stage fintech. Work primarily with backend technologies (Go preferred) and cloud/datastore tools.

Lead Shopify projects, oversee development and integrations, guide engineers and ensure high-quality execution for clients' commerce needs.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop backend systems and APIs, mentor other engineers, and resolve complex integration challenges in healthcare technology.

The role involves designing CLI and backend services, maintaining code quality, collaborating on technical issues, and writing documentation.

Develop and maintain LabArchives electronic laboratory notebook, inventory, and scheduler products. Collaborate with product, operations, and support teams to design, build, test, release, and improve software features across front-end, back-end, and database layers. Create unit tests and expand automation frameworks, participate in code reviews, security audits, and accessibility evaluations, and contribute to continuous improvement in a remote environment.

Lead the Lister engineering domain end-to-end: set roadmap and technical vision across three pods, ensure partner data quality and system reliability, develop team leads and engineers, drive architecture and code review, manage incident/on-call processes, and partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and Partner Success to translate ambiguous partner needs into scoped engineering work.

Own and evolve Fieldwire's cloud production infrastructure and tooling: design and automate SDLC and IaC, ensure reliability and security, lead incident response and observability, mentor engineers, and drive platform architecture and process improvements.