Job Description

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, 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

• Implement secure and scalable solutions using AWS serverless technology.
• Help break down initiatives to deliver increments of the requirements to each stage.
• Develop high quality code (e.g. adhering to SOLID principles) with plenty of tests and observability baked-in.
• Experience with PHP development – ability to write clean and efficient PHP code.
• Optimize your team’s development, and delivery experience, so you and your team can be as productive as possible and regularly deploy to production.\
• As is necessary, develop infrastructure as code using Terraform so you can use more of AWS.
• Work in a collaborative environment where you regularly pair, plan, and execute tasks as a team and strive to optimize your team’s Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Mean-time-to-recovery, and Change Failure Rate
• Independently manage your tasks in JIRA without others involvement.

What You Need To Succeed

• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience delivering large-scale, high availability, 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.
• Care deeply about code quality and writing great tests at multiple layers.
• Passion for learning, sharing your knowledge and continuous improvement.
• Excitement for understanding our customers and their problems, so that we can improve governance all around the world.
• Experience working with Agile and Kanban / Scrum processes and following strong development and testing processes.
• Experience with good security practices in enterprise application development.
• Knowledge of SQL and NOSQL databases.
• Experience with AWS serverless services, Terraform is a plus.