Senior Software Engineer (Node.js, TypeScript) London, England, United Kingdom

Role Summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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), 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.

Desired Additional Skills

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, e.g., 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.

Benefits and Working Conditions

• Hybrid work model: if you are within commuting distance to a Diligent office location, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time.
• Drug‑free workplace.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Diligent is 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. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.