Senior Software Engineer (Mern Stack)

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 organizations 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 thesoftware companyof 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 Senior Software Engineer, you will be building robust, scalable, and secure microservices that power our SaaS platform and make governance easy for our customers. Youll have the full power of AWS at your disposal to build Serverless solutions (either brand new, or assisting in migrating services to Serverless), in .Net. You will be collaborating with a team of highly talented developers, mentor and guide them to new highs. Your team will fully own their services (from code to deployment and monitoring), youll participate in architecture discussion, and regularly demo to the entire department. Also, you will be working closely with staff and principal engineers who can help you solve architectural problems optimally and provide new perspectives.

You will take ownership of the features you are working on, proactively drive improvements in software design and development practices, and work with more junior members of the team to help develop their skills and optimize the performance of the team over time.

Key Responsibilities
 Assist with analysis and documentation of technical requirements and user stories for assigned features, in accordance with the agile methodology employed by Diligent.
 To a reasonable degree of accuracy, definition, and estimation of development tasks for assigned features and user stories.
 Design, code, review, and test assigned features and user stories, in accordance with the agile methodology employed by Diligent.
 Assisting with creation and maintenance of databases, environments, processes, standards, and tools supporting development and release activities, as required

Required Experience/Skills:
 5+ years experience in a hands-on development role at a commercial software company
 Developed skills in appropriate software development languages, frameworks, and technologies (e.g., .NET/C#, SQL, React) as relevant for the team
 Experience with could tools, could native development, preferably AWS.
 Good written and oral communications in English
 Solidtroubleshooting ability and skills
 Experience with Agile/SCRUM software development

Preferred But Not Essential.
 Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
 Experience with Docker image build
 CI/CD experience: cloud deployments, GitHub actions.

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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