2 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, optimize, and maintain high-performance enterprise software systems.
- Lead platform modernization, code refactoring, architectural design, and delivery across complex application layers.
- Use, review, and evaluate AI-assisted code in production engineering workflows.
- Improve product availability, latency, scalability, efficiency, and reliability through advanced system tuning.
- Drive engineering best practices, code reviews, and automation frameworks across the department.
- Coach and mentor engineers, close skill gaps, and accelerate technical growth.
- Share technical expertise through documentation and department-wide knowledge dissemination.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical or analytical discipline; equivalent experience is not accepted in lieu of a degree.
- 10+ years of relevant software development experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 8+ years with a relevant Master of Science degree.
- Expert coding, scripting, and debugging proficiency in Java, Python, or Go.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, with senior individual-contributor experience.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions and engineering practices across teams.
- Experience using AI coding assistants and evaluating, coaching on, and selectively applying AI-generated production code.
- Experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining high-volume, mission-critical production services.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical architectures to diverse engineering audiences.
- Preferred experience with microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, or ServiceNow.
Benefits
- The role is based in McLean, Virginia, and requires working in the office five days per week.
- Benefits may include a 401(k) with company match, flexible time off, paid parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, wellness programs, flexible spending accounts, health savings account contributions, referral bonuses, and learning resources.
- Appian provides sponsored professional technical certifications, onboarding, mentorship, dedicated learning time, leadership development, Appian University training, and tuition reimbursement.
- Additional benefits may include an Employee Assistance Program, Employee Stock Purchase Program, retirement or pension plans, wellness dollars, and family-forming benefits.
- Certain positions may be eligible for equity awards.
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About Appian
Appian builds a low-code platform for process automation, case management, and data orchestration, used by large enterprises and government agencies to design and run mission-critical workflows. It sells subscriptions and services for cloud and on-premise deployments, spanning BPM, RPA, process mining, and AI-enabled capabilities. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Appian is a public company listed on NASDAQ.