Senior Software Engineer

Location: USA - NY - New York City, CAN - ON Work from Home

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Datasite and its associated businesses are the global center for facilitating economic value creation for companies across the globe. From data rooms to AI deal sourcing

and more. Here you’ll find the finest technological pioneers: Datasite, Blueflame AI, Grata, and Sherpany. They all, collectively, define the future for business growth.

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Job Description:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are a trusted technical contributor who helps lead the design and delivery of complex features and systems within a domain. Deep expertise allows you to set direction for the team, mentor others through code reviews, pairing, and project leadership, and influence both team processes and technical outcomes. You promote engineering excellence and partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our technical decisions align with product and business goals.

How We Work Together:

Strategic Technical Leadership

• Technical decision-making is led with attention to both immediate customer impact and long-term business needs.
• Roadmaps are developed in collaboration with product, the team, and leadership to guide future direction.
• Architectural improvements are defined to reduce operational overhead and strengthen scalability and reliability.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Influence

• Cross-team improvements are identified and advocated for, optimizing workflows and enhancing tools with broad organizational impact.
• Collaboration is fostered through active feedback, shared learning, and a commitment to technical excellence.
• Communication is clear and engaging, introducing challenging ideas thoughtfully and translating complex concepts into accessible insights.

Problem Solving & Overcoming Obstacles

• Trade-offs between business priorities, technical constraints, and customer needs are carefully balanced to make data-driven decisions.
• Systems are simplified where possible, reducing technical debt and improving long-term maintainability and scalability.

Mentorship & Growth

• Mentorship is offered through coaching, feedback, and participation in technical hiring, ensuring culture and mission are well represented.
• Continuous feedback is sought and shared, supporting both personal development and the growth of the team.

Ownership & Accountability

• End-to-end system design and execution for high-impact features or systems is owned with an emphasis on quality and reliability.
• Monitoring, logging, and failure-domain strategies are built in to ensure resilience and performance.
• Project progress is tracked, risks are assessed, and plans are adapted while maintaining a long-term perspective.

Qualifications:

• Backend engineer with a preference toward Java/Kotlin
• Deep expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale systems, focusing on clean, scalable, and performant code.
• Proven SME in modern programming paradigms and languages, with rapid adaptability to new ones.
• Strong mastery of testing practices like unit, integration, end-to-end, and high code quality standards.
• Expertise in current dev tools: version control, CI/CD, IaC, containers, cloud architectures. Eager to adopt best-fit solutions.
• Passion for tracking industry trends, evaluating new tech, and driving sustainable adoptions aligned with business goals.
• Openness to incorporating AI into the dev workflow
• Bonus for Marketplace or Apps development
• Bonus for exposure to Kong or similar
• Bonus for Full Stack capabilities

The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end for this position based on a good faith assessment of the role and market data at the time of posting. Consistent with applicable law, each candidate’s compensation offer may vary and will be determined based on but not limited to, your geographic region, skills, qualifications, and experience along with the requirements of the position. This position may be eligible for bonuses, commissions, or overtime if applicable. Benefits include health insurance (medical, dental, vision), a retirement savings plan, paid time off, and other employee benefits. Specific details will be provided during the interview process. Datasite reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Our company is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce where all individuals are respected and valued. We are an equal opportunity employer and make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are dedicated to building teams that reflect the diversity of our communities.