Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineer

Role Overview Build reliable software services that power products, platforms, and business decisions. As a Senior Software Developer, you’ll design and deliver scalable applications, backend services, and integrations that perform well in production and evolve with changing business needs.

You’ll apply strong software engineering practices across APIs, data-intensive applications, cloud services, AI-enabled solutions, and deployment pipelines. You’ll help shape technical solutions, improve system reliability, and contribute to a high-quality engineering culture.

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff)

• Design and develop scalable backend services and applications using Python or TypeScript.
• Lead the development of APIs, integrations, reusable software components, and AI-enabled features.
• Build reliable solutions for data ingestion, manipulation, service-to-service communication, and intelligent automation.
• Apply AI technologies and modern software engineering practices to improve product capabilities, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
• Make sound technical decisions around architecture, performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Deploy and operate applications using AWS services and CI/CD practices while improving testing, monitoring, documentation, and delivery standards.

These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview

• 5+ years of professional experience developing and delivering production software.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python; TypeScript or similar languages is also valuable.
• Proven experience building backend services, APIs, integrations, and service-oriented applications.
• Experience applying AI technologies, such as generative AI, machine learning services, intelligent automation, or AI-enabled application features.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, testing, debugging, performance optimization, and secure development.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and familiarity with Git-based CI/CD practices.
• Clear communication and the ability to collaborate on technical direction and delivery.

It would be great if you had these too, but we’ll support you if you don’t

• Experience building data-intensive applications, ingestion services, or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with containers, infrastructure as code, observability, workflow orchestration, or MLOps.
• Experience with streaming technologies, automated quality practices, or modern AI application patterns such as LLM integrations, prompt engineering, or retrieval-augmented generation.

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.

At Diligent, we’re building the future with people who think boldly and move fast. Whether you’re designing systems that leverage large language models or part of a team reimaging workflows with AI, you’ll help us unlock entirely new ways of working and thinking. Curiosity is in our DNA, we look for individuals willing to ask the big questions and experiment fearlessly - those who embrace change not as a challenge, but as an opportunity. The future belongs to those who keep learning, and we are building it together. At Diligent, you’re not just building the future - you’re an agent of positive change, joining a global community on a mission to make an impact.

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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.
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