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Diligent

Staff Software Engineer

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In-Office
Vancouver, BC
Mid level
In-Office
Vancouver, BC
Mid level
The Development Productivity Lead will evaluate and implement AI-driven tools for developers, advocate for solutions, provide training, and build global collaboration while measuring success metrics.
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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.

Learn more at diligent.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

Position Overview 
As a Staff 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 foundational platform services. 
You will be creating and owning robust, scalable, and secure microservices that power our SaaS platform, enabling our external and internal customers.  With the full power of AWS at your disposal, you’ll be focused on building Serverless solutions, primarily in NodeJS and TypeScript.  Your team will fully own their services (from code to deployment and monitoring), you’ll present and guide architecture discussions and regularly demo to the entire department.  
 
Key Responsibilities 
  • 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 to maximize your team’s productivity and deploy continuously to production. 
  • Lead in a collaborative environment where you regularly pair, plan, and execute tasks as a team and strive to optimize your team’s DORA metrics. 
  • Regularly engage related disciplines and departments so you understand our external and internal customer challenges and suggest solutions and improvements. 
  • Mentor through constructive code reviews so everyone can grow and learn alongside you. 
  • Can lead through uncertainty when needed and help a team navigate through ambiguity to successful delivery. 
Required Experience/Skills 
  • 7+ years of professional experience developing and owning high-scale, secure cloud applications in an agile environment. 
  • 4+ years of experience with a variety (and depth) of AWS services. 
  • 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 governance all around the world. 
  • Experience with AWS CDK (or Terraform, Cloud Formation), TypeScript, and React. 
  • Experience with Microservices architecture and Event-driven architecture. 
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing on AWS. 
Preferred Experience/Skills 
  • Team and/or delivery leadership, comfortable with driving discussions and taking charge. 
Pay Range
$110,000$139,000 CAD

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.
  • 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.

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].

To all recruitment agencies: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Diligent employees or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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