Sr. Software Development Engineer

Job Description

About the role:

The Sr. Software Development Engineer on the Duro Design team builds and ships product experiences that hardware engineers rely on every day. You’ll work across our modern stack—from frontend interfaces to backend architecture—to deliver elegant, performant, and scalable solutions. This role partners closely with product, design, and engineering teammates in a fast-moving, highly autonomous environment.

We’re looking for engineers who think end-to-end, embrace experimentation, and leverage modern AI-powered workflows to move with speed and precision. This is a hybrid role based in Los Angeles, CA (3 days per week in office).

A day in the life of our Sr. Software Development Engineer:

Feature Ownership: Decompose product requirements into well-structured tasks and own delivery from concept through production release.

Full Stack Development: Build across our stack (TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, React, Apollo GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS) to deliver scalable, high-quality software.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product and design teams to translate user needs into thoughtful, intuitive, and performant experiences.

End-to-End Thinking: Architect, implement, test, deploy, and measure features with a focus on long-term maintainability and system integrity.

Experimentation & Analytics: Instrument features using PostHog, run experiments, analyze real user data, and iterate based on measurable outcomes.

AI-Driven Engineering: Leverage modern AI development workflows to increase velocity, structure context effectively, and deliver production-ready systems.

Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to refine architecture, improve performance, and scale systems while maintaining engineering excellence.

Qualifications

Who We’re Looking For

Required:

5–12 years of professional software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of shipping production-grade products

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Strong foundation in TypeScript and React

Experience working with design systems such as Ant Design, Material UI, or similar

Backend experience with Node.js, NestJS, and GraphQL

Experience working with PostgreSQL and ORMs such as TypeORM or Prisma

Strong architectural thinking and ability to design scalable systems

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Comfort operating in autonomous, fast-paced environments

A product mindset with the ability to navigate the full feature lifecycle

Nice to Have:

Experience building PLM, PDM, or hardware/manufacturing industry software

Background with AWS infrastructure

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform

Familiarity with event-driven systems (NATS, Redis, Kafka)

Testing experience using Vitest, Jest, or Playwright

Experience working in AI-augmented development environments

How We Build

We don’t hire coders. We hire engineers who shape software.

At Duro, AI is integrated into our engineering workflows. Engineers leverage AI-powered development environments to orchestrate tasks, structure context, and accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards of craftsmanship.

We value:

Architectural intuition — understanding systems before implementing them

Precision in communication — clear requirements produce strong outcomes

Pattern recognition — knowing when to abstract, reuse, or experiment

Product taste — recognizing quality and refining toward excellence

Intellectual curiosity — continuously improving how we build

We optimize for engineers who can take ambiguous requirements and transform them into measurable, high-impact product outcomes.

Additional Information

The expected annual pay range for this position is $164,000-$178,000. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

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