1 day ago
Richmond, VA, USA +2 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and architecture for production applications and establish architectural direction for long-term growth.
- Serve as the senior technical authority across backend, frontend, data, infrastructure, and system design.
- Build and operate scalable web applications and services across multiple services and systems.
- Use AI and manage AI agents across software development, testing, CI/CD, and operations.
- Oversee tradeoffs involving performance, scalability, reliability, quality, and time to market.
- Maintain production monitoring, alerting, observability, recovery, deployments, testing, and cost optimization.
- Support Engineering Managers and Product Managers with prioritization, execution, and delivery.
- Mentor other engineers and drive the maintainability and operational health of mission-critical systems.
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Significant experience designing, building, and operating complex backend systems or data-intensive applications.
- Experience as a technical lead or senior engineer responsible for architecture, technical direction, and the health of a scaled enterprise application.
- Strong system design skills across application, data, infrastructure, reliability, and operations.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience with mission-critical, API-first SaaS systems.
- Experience working at a rapidly evolving, private-equity-backed growth startup.
- Passion for data, analytics, and using technology to uncover meaningful insights.
- Experience in an air-gapped FedRAMP or DoD IL environment is preferred.
Benefits
- Discretionary time off with no maximum limits.
- Health, vision, and dental benefits.
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement; the posting states two days per week in the office and separately describes 1–2 office days per week, with listed locations including McLean, New York, Richmond, and Loveland, Ohio.
- Wellness stipends and dedicated wellness programming.
- Career development programs with reimbursement for educational certifications.
- Full-time employment opportunity.
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About Exiger
Exiger builds AI- and data-driven software for supply chain, third‑party risk, and compliance management, used by corporations, banks, and government agencies. Its 1Exiger platform provides supplier visibility, risk detection, and due diligence, delivered as SaaS with supporting analytics and advisory services. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Exiger is FedRAMP authorized for U.S. public‑sector use and is majority‑owned by The Carlyle Group.