Senior Software Engineer (NodeJS, React)

You’re a hands‑on engineer who likes solving real problems at scale. You’ll design and build new features in a flagship SaaS product, modernise legacy systems, and shape the future architecture using microservices, REST APIs, SQL, and cloud‑native patterns on AWS. You enjoy breaking things down, running experiments, building POCs, and collaborating closely with product managers to ship clean, well‑tested solutions. You take ownership of your work, mentor others, and constantly look for smarter, more elegant ways to build software.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, review, and test new features in one of the flagship products

• Break down and refactor legacy software components

• Participate in the largescale design of the future state of the product, run experiments and create POCs for validation and refinement

• Collaborate with product managers and other teams to specify technical requirements, deliverables, and optimized solutions

• Assist and mentor team members

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a hands-on development role at a commercial software company

• Strong experience with SQL / RDBMS

• Experience with microservices, REST APIs

• Experience with cloud tools, cloud native development, preferably AWS

• Problem-solver attitude, technology agnostic approach

• Successfully manage own workload, take ownership, and stay pro-active

• Keen to improve processes and share knowledge across the team

• Experience with SQL stored procedures

• Worked with both backend and frontend, experience with NodeJS

• CI/CD experience, containers, cloud deployments, GitHub actions

• Familiarity with event-driven architecture

• Experience with data visualisation / reporting tools, like Lookr, QuickSight, etc

• 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.

What Diligent Offers You

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be done 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, a generous time off policy and wellness programs.
• 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.

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.

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.