Senior Software Engineer (Node.js, TypeScript) in London

Here’s a summary of the role:

Build software that matters, take real technical ownership, and use modern AI tooling to do your best work. This is a hands‑on senior engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex product problems, shaping robust solutions, and helping teams deliver reliable services at scale.

You’ll work on secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript, AWS, and modern engineering practices. You’ll play a leading role within a collaborative product engineering team, owning complex features end to end, contributing to design and architectural decisions, supporting production systems, and helping raise the bar across backend, cloud, and AI‑assisted development workflows.

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do, not all of it, just the important stuff:

• Own and deliver complex backend services and APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS, from technical design through release and production support.
• Contribute to design and architecture discussions, making pragmatic decisions that balance delivery speed, maintainability, scalability, and security.
• Mentor and support less experienced engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance, and day‑to‑day collaboration.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across the team to turn requirements into practical, reliable solutions.
• Use AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, research, and documentation, while validating outputs carefully and applying sound judgment.
• Strengthen service reliability, observability, and engineering quality by improving monitoring, incident response, testing, and development practices.

These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:

• 5 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems in an agile environment.
• Strong backend development skills with Node.js and TypeScript, including experience designing and building APIs or microservices.
• Comfort contributing to technical design discussions and taking ownership of complex features or services end to end.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS or other cloud‑native development, automated testing, and deployment practices that support reliable delivery.
• Comfort working with SQL databases, Git, Docker‑based workflows, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical understanding of AI‑assisted engineering tools and broader LLM concepts, with the judgment to use them responsibly with privacy, security, cost, and quality in mind.
• Clear communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and experience supporting or mentoring other engineers within a product engineering team.

It would be great if you had these too, but we’ll support you if you don’t:

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, for example CDK or Terraform.
• Exposure to observability tooling, incident response, or production monitoring practices.
• Experience working with React or Angular when contributing to end‑to‑end product delivery.

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C‑Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.

At Diligent, we’re building the future with people who think boldly and move fast. Whether you’re designing systems that leverage large language models or part of a team reimagining workflows with AI, you’ll help us unlock entirely new ways of working and thinking. Curiosity is in our DNA, we look for individuals willing to ask the big questions and experiment fearlessly - those who embrace change not as a challenge, but as an opportunity. The future belongs to those who keep learning, and we are building it together.

At Diligent, you’re not just building the future - you’re an agent of positive change, joining a global community on a mission to make an impact. 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.

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.

We are a drug-free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, 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.

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 Diligent, we recognize the value of a diverse global workforce. Visa sponsorship may be available for select positions based on business needs and specific role requirements. Sponsorship decisions are evaluated on a case‑by‑case basis, and eligibility should not be assumed for all opportunities.