Staff Software Engineer, Architecture (Remote)

AuditBoard

1d•Remote

About The Position

Having surpassed $300M ARR and continuing to grow, AuditBoard is the leading audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform on the market. More than 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, leverage our award-winning technology to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. And our customers love us: AuditBoard is top-rated on G2.com and Gartner Peer Insights. At AuditBoard, we inspire each other to innovate and are proud of what we are producing. We spend each day thinking of new ways to help our customers and contribute to the greater good of our company and our surrounding communities. We are all about assisting each other and breaking through barriers to create the most loved audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform by our customers. This is how we have become one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America for the sixth year in a row, as ranked by Deloitte! Ready to define the technical future of an organization where your ideas become reality? Our department is a high-impact, high-visibility powerhouse within engineering—the kind of place where your expertise sets the direction for the entire engineering organization. We’re looking for a proven staff engineer with an exceptional track record of delivering large-scale, complex projects who can embrace cutting-edge AI and agentic workflows, and lead the charge into the future of software development. This position demands outstanding autonomy, the natural ability to lead and direct technical vision across teams, and mentoring engineers at all levels to deliver transformational solutions. You’ll own the most significant technical challenges—from designing enterprise-scale systems to establishing the architectural patterns that will define our platform for years to come. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and exceptional written and oral communication skills to align software solutions with the company’s business objectives. Our ideal candidate is a technical leader who drives consensus across teams, can independently own initiatives from concept to delivery, and is genuinely passionate about elevating the entire engineering organization. We’re a hardworking, energetic team that is passionate about our customers and believes that to be successful we should never stop learning: learning about our customers, our product, and how to build better software. If you have a demonstrated history of success delivering complex projects and want to amplify your impact by leading and mentoring others—we want to hear from you!

Requirements

10+ years of experience developing web-based applications with a proven track record of delivering large-scale, complex projects
Deep expertise in programming languages (e.g., JavaScript/TS, Go, Python) and extensive experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
Extensive experience with SPA frameworks (e.g., Ember.js, React, Vue) and distributed systems architecture.
Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills with demonstrated ability to influence at all levels of the organization
Natural ability to lead and direct technical vision across multiple teams and projects
History of mentoring and developing other engineers
Passion for technical excellence and continuous learning

Nice To Haves

BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
Experience with Workflow Orchestration
Docker or Kubernetes experience
Experience with Grafana, DataDog, or other observability platforms
Track record of building and scaling SaaS web applications
Active contributor to or maintainer of open-source projects
Deep knowledge of security frameworks and data privacy standards
Experience with micro-frontend architectures and frameworks (e.g., Module Federation, Single-SPA, or similar solutions)

Responsibilities

Own and drive technical designs for complex systems, including cloud-native, distributed, and service architectures, setting the standard for the organization.
Establish and evolve best practices and guidelines for software development, integration, testing, and deployment across the engineering organization.
Lead cross-functional collaboration with developers, infrastructure engineers, product owners, and executive stakeholders to ensure consistent implementation of the architecture and alignment with business strategy.
Drive adoption of new technologies and approaches across teams, particularly around scalability, reliability, and security, making strategic technical decisions that impact the entire platform.
Communicate architectural vision, strategies, and the benefits of design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
Lead the development and implementation of large-scale engineering initiatives, from conception to completion, with full ownership of outcomes.
Demonstrate deep expertise with TypeScript, Node.JS, Ember, Python, Go, Docker, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
Lead thorough testing, debugging, and optimization of solutions, establishing quality standards for the organization.
Champion Agile software development practices and drive continuous improvement in team processes.
Explore and innovate on micro-frontend framework solutions to enable modular, scalable, and independently deployable frontend architectures across the platform.
Define the vision for AI-powered tools and agentic workflows, driving organization-wide adoption to accelerate development and improve code quality.
Serve as the primary technical leader and mentor for engineers at all levels, establishing agentic coding practices and knowledge-sharing culture to elevate the entire engineering organization.