Engineering Manager
•Sezzle· 26m
💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal💰 $70k-125k🇲🇽 Mexico
26m ago
Diligentcorporation·3 months ago
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.
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We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help define and build the next generation of our enterprise SaaS platform. This role blends deep hands-on engineering with high-impact technical leadership, offering the opportunity to influence architecture, guide platform evolution, and mentor senior engineers across the organization.
A core focus of this role is designing and building secure, scalable, serverless systems on AWS using TypeScript, Node.js, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), while modernizing critical platform components. You will also play a pivotal role in integrating AI capabilities across the product ecosystem, ensuring responsible, transparent, and compliant use of AI technologies.
If you thrive on system-level thinking, complex technical challenges, and shaping AI-enabled, cloud-native products with company-wide impact, this role is for you.
Define and influence long-term engineering and architectural strategy.
Lead platform modernization and evolution, identifying scalable and reusable solutions.
Review and guide architectural decisions with a strong focus on performance, security, resilience, and maintainability.
Act as a trusted technical advisor across multiple teams, influencing large-scale technical decisions.
Shape AI-related architecture and design decisions across the platform.
Build or integrate AI-enabled systems with a focus on transparency, observability, and governance.
Ensure AI solutions meet regulatory, compliance, and responsible AI standards.
Mentor engineering teams on AI fundamentals, model behavior, prompt engineering, and safe AI adoption.
Serve as an internal thought leader on AI best practices and emerging trends.
Architect and build secure, scalable, serverless applications on AWS using TypeScript.
Design and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
Build and operate distributed systems leveraging AWS services including Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, and EventBridge.
Develop high-quality RESTful APIs using Node.js / TypeScript and collaborate on modern front-end frameworks (Angular or React).
Optimize SQL queries and improve database performance at scale.
Promote automation, reliability, observability, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.
Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
15+ years of experience building secure, production-grade software systems.
Proven experience architecting and delivering cloud-native, serverless applications on AWS.
Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, REST API design, and modern UI frameworks (Angular/React).
Deep understanding of distributed systems, including data stores such as Aurora, DynamoDB, and S3.
Strong knowledge of event-driven architectures.
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation).
Experience with Docker and modern CI/CD practices.
Strong SQL skills with demonstrated experience in database tuning and performance optimization.
Solid understanding of AI concepts, including model behavior, prompt engineering, AI safety, and governance.
Experience building or integrating AI-powered systems with monitoring, transparency, and compliance considerations.
Ability to mentor teams and lead AI adoption responsibly across an organization.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
Proven ability to work across teams and influence large-scale technical initiatives.
What Diligent Offers You
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., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney. To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.
We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and Know Your Rights. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
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