Senior Software Engineer, Platform Reporting

at  Diligent Corporation

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 Senior Software Engineer based out of our technical center of excellence in Vancouver, you will be working alongside a group of passionate and talented individuals in building Diligent’s next generation Reporting Platform.
You will be creating robust, scalable, and secure microservices that power and unify our SaaS platform, enabling our customers to derive insights from their governance data. With the full power of AWS and QuickSight at your disposal, you’ll be focused on building Serverless solutions and data integrations, primarily in TypeScript. Your team will fully own your services, from coding to deployment and monitoring; you’ll participate in architecture discussions, and regularly demo to the entire department.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS

• 6+ years of professional experience developing and owning large-scale, high-availability, secure cloud applications in an agile environment.
• 3+ years of experience in AWS.
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases including proficiency in database design and query optimization.
• Strong ability to develop highly-readable and well-tested code that adheres to SOLID principles.
• Ability to contribute to a high-performing agile team, and to product innovation.
• Passion for learning and sharing your knowledge with others.
• Excitement for understanding our customers and their problems, so that we can improve and modernize governance all around the world.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS

• Experience with AWS CDK, TypeScript and React
• Experience with Microservices architecture and Event-driven architecture
• Experience CI/CD pipelines and automated testing on AWS
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools, such as AWS QuickSight, Tableau or Power BI

• Design and implement secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, high-performance, yet simple solutions using AWS Serverless technology. These solutions should strive to be event-driven, highly observable, with infrastructure as code, and tightly leveraging AWS’s ecosystem of services.
• Optimize your development and delivery experience in order to maximize your team’s productivity and deploy continuously to production.
• Work in a collaborative environment where you regularly pair, plan, and execute tasks as a team and strive to optimize your team’s DORA metrics.
• Participate in product design so you understand our customer problems and suggest solutions to solve those problems.
• Provide constructive code reviews so everyone can grow and learn alongside you.