Position Overview:As a Software Engineer II at Diligent, you'll take on a hands-on technical role in building secure, scalable, and high-performing serverless microservices using TypeScript on AWS. You'll contribute meaningfully to our mission of making governance effortless for our customers, working in a team of passionate and talented individuals that owns its services end to end-from architecture and implementation to monitoring and continuous improvements.
This role is ideal for a mid-level engineer who writes solid code and embraces AI-powered tools to work smarter and faster. You'll help shape architectural discussions, and scale modern development practices, including responsible use of AI in workflows.
Key Responsibilities- Design and implement secure, scalable, high-performing, 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 maintain a healthy development flow by adhering to Agile processes and driving iterative enhancements.
- Use AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, research, and code reviews, always validating outputs and
- applying judgment.
Required Experience/Skills- 3-5 years of professional software engineering experience in an agile, fast-paced environment.
- AI Tooling & Practices: Uses AI to boost productivity, skilled in prompt engineering, and evaluates AI outputs responsibly (bias, cost, ethics).
- Familiar with core AI concepts (tokens, context length, embeddings, hallucinations), understands high-level LLM behavior, and recognizes safe vs. unsafe use cases (privacy, security, fairness).
- Cloud & infrastructure basics: Hands-on with AWS services; familiarity with infrastructure as code (CDK, Terraform).
- CI/CD mindset: Experience or interest in CI/CD pipeline setup and exploring AI-assisted DevOps tooling.
- Backend Proficiency: Builds RESTful APIs with Node.js/TypeScript, employs Git for version control, and has hands-on experience with SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
- Frontend familiarity: Experience using React or Angular for modern web interfaces.
- Collaboration & communication: Comfortable discussing architectural decisions, documenting designs, and presenting technical ideas clearly.
Pay Range
$86,320-$107,900 CAD
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.
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.
