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.

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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.

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​.
• Able to set technical direction for the team​.
• Able to spot the biggest pain points of the systems (s)he is 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, able to hire and​ be a dependable team member who takes up complex and challenging tasks and completes them without Manager’s involvement and supervision.​
• Onboard new members to the team.

Required Experience / Skills

Preferred Experience / Skills :

What Diligent Offers You

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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