2 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, optimize, and maintain high-performance, mission-critical software systems.
- Lead platform modernization, strategic technology changes, code refactoring, and architectural design across complex application layers.
- Use AI coding assistants to generate, review, evaluate, and selectively apply production code.
- Improve product availability, latency, scalability, efficiency, and reliability through advanced system tuning.
- Drive technical story breakdowns, acceptance criteria, code reviews, development standards, and automation frameworks.
- Coach and mentor engineers, close team skill gaps, and accelerate technical growth.
- Influence engineering direction and technical practices across teams and document domain expertise for the broader department.
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 related Master of Science degree.
- Expert coding, scripting, and debugging proficiency in Java, Python, or Go.
- Deep working knowledge of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience influencing technical decisions and engineering practices beyond one team or project.
- Experience using AI coding assistants and evaluating, coaching on, and applying AI-generated code in production.
- Experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining high-volume, mission-critical production services.
- Strong technical communication skills across verbal, visual, and written formats.
- Preferred experience with microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, modern CI/CD pipelines, AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, or ServiceNow.
Benefits
- Remote work from the US.
- High-impact autonomy, ownership of team direction, and participation in broader engineering discussions.
- Robust new-hire orientation, department-specific training, mentorship, and the First-Friend program.
- Dedicated learning time, Appian University training, leadership programs, tuition reimbursement, and sponsored professional technical certifications.
- Benefits may include 401(k) matching, flexible time off, paid parental leave, medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, wellness programs, flexible spending accounts, health savings account contributions, employee referral bonuses, equity eligibility, Employee Assistance Program support, Employee Stock Purchase Program, family-forming benefits, and wellness dollars.
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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.