Senior Software Engineer (Python AND AWS And Big Data)

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:

Diligent are looking for someone who has a strong knowledge of development to join our Centre for Global Product Innovation in Budapest and together build our new comprehensive Data Platform. We collect information from tens of thousands of sources and process this large amount of data with various tools including ML classification, NLP, and tagging to provide input for the Data Science team and a wide range of reports for our clients, all built on native AWS.

The ideal candidate will have proven ability to apply effective analysis, design, programming, and testing skills to produce and maintain scaled SaaS software solutions. They will be driven, resourceful and not feel intimidated by significant technical challenges. They will want to take ownership of the features they are working on, proactively drive improvements in software design and development practices, and might work with more junior members of the team to help develop their skills and optimize the performance of the team over time

Key Responsibilities

• In addition to core development activities for core modules and integration projects, you will be required to:
• Design, code, review and test assigned features and user stories, in accordance with the agile methodology employed by Diligent
• Influence the design of the future state of the product, including separating out major components and sub-systems, designing and delivering prototypes, especially for back-end components
• Collaborate with the product owner and engineering manager in the analysis and documentation of technical requirements and user stories for assigned features
• Assist with production of high quality operational and system documentation as required
• Communicate effectively with other development teams, production operations, and a number of other technology groups, to ensure regular smooth delivery of working software to production

Required Experience/Skills

• 5+ years experience in a hands-on development role at a commercial software company
• Strong experience with Python and common libs (NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch, etc)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with could tools, could native development, IaC, preferably AWS
• Experience with REST API
• Problem-solver attitude - Technology agnostic approach
• Good written and oral communications
• Solid troubleshooting ability and skills
• Ability to contribute to the effectiveness of a high-performing agile team, and to the product innovation
• Successfully manage own workload, and take personal responsibility and ownership for delivery, behaviours, and self-improvement
• Keen to improve processes and share knowledge across the team

Preferred Experience/Skills

• Worked with Big Data tools, data warehouse, event driven architecture
• Experience with Airflow, Spark, dbt, Iceberg, Kafka
• Experience with CDK, Terraform
• CI/CD experience, containers, cloud deployments, GitHub actions
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM/Lean software development
• Keen to learn more about new languages and frameworks
• Familiarity with Git/GitHub and Gitflow

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.
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