Software Engineer II

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 Software Engineer II, 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 capabilities with solid experience in working in at least one domain.
•   Ability to complete well defined stories independently, understands the technology, framework, and codebase/tools (depending on the role) the team is using
•   Able to contribute to others' work, e.g., code or test reviews.
•   Understand the process and keep the Flow healthy.
•   Monitors and improves the stability of the codebase owned by the team.
•    Mentor SE-I and contribute to team knowledge.

Required Experience/Skills

•   3-5 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, visually stunning user interfaces using Angular/React.
•   Strong Experience with Docker and containerization technologies.
•    Advance knowledge of Git and experience with branching, merging strategies.
•   Experience on SQL databases. Preferred Experience/Skills:
•   Significant experience with AWS and familiarity with cloud architecture.
•    Proficiency with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or similar infrastructure as code tools.
•   Demonstrated experience in CI/CD pipeline setup and maintenance.
•  Experience in leading development projects and mentoring junior team members

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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