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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
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of software engineers in building scalable, reliable, and efficient web applications and microservices in the for “News and Competitive Data Analysis Platform”. You will drive technical excellence, system architecture, and best practices while fostering a high-performance engineering culture. You’ll be responsible for managing engineering execution, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
Your expertise in Python , Django, React, Apache Solr, RabbitMQ, and Postges and other NoSQL cloud databases will help shape the technical strategy of our SaaS platform. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and DevOps teams to align engineering efforts with business goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Demonstrates strong technical leadership, typically across multiple teams by delivering high-quality software solutions ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, product managers, designers, and stakeholders to define project requirements and deliver solutions that meet business goals.
- Able to spot the biggest pain points of the systems you’re working with and propose solutions to improve.
- Able to influence the engineering culture and practices of the teams, works with self-confidence with stakeholders outside of own team as well.
- Experienced mentor providing technical guidance and inspiring the team to achieve goals, helping them to grow and develop skills.
- Conduct constructive code reviews, ensure code quality, and promote best practices in software development so everyone can go and learn alongside you.
What you need to succeed
- Technical Leadership: Provide architectural guidance, ensuring best practices in Django-based backend development and React-based frontends.
- Engineering Execution: Own the technical roadmap, working with teams on key components like Python framework for task management, RabbitMQ for messaging, and Google Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL for data storage.
- System Scalability & Performance: Optimize & redisgn Backend worker nodes efficiency for tasks like crawling and notifications, ensuring smooth distributed task execution.
- Database & Search Optimization: Drive performance improvements in PostgreSQL (self-hosted and GCP-managed CloudSQL) and Apache Solr for indexed content retrieval.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Oversee the transition to GCP-managed CloudSQL, replacing Google Data Store and PostgreSQL for metadata.
- Cloud Migration : Stragegise and drive product migration from GCP to AWS
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure reliable deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
- Mentorship & Growth: Coach and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
Preferred Experience/Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2+ years in an engineering leadership role.
- Strong expertise in Python (Django, Celery) and JavaScript (React, frontend development).
- Deep understanding of message brokers (RabbitMQ) and task orchestration.
- Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, Apache Solr, and Google Cloud SQL.
- Experience with scalable architectures, distributed systems, and event-driven designs.
- Knowledge of NLP and Semantic Search
- Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
- Strong background in code quality, security best practices, and performance tuning.
- Ability to influence stakeholders, manage engineering teams, and drive technical innovation.
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., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney.
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 recruitment@diligent.com.
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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