Staff Software Engineer (Backend), AI Governance (Remote USA)

Optro is a leading audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform that has surpassed $300M ARR and continues to grow. They are seeking a highly motivated staff software engineer to lead large, strategic projects, mentor fellow engineers, and design scalable solutions while collaborating with a dedicated team.

Responsibilities:

• Build and ship product features end-to-end
• Ability to write clear and well defined design documentation
• Mentor fellow engineers
• Lead application architecture decisions
• Troubleshoot, debug and resolve software bugs
• Implement back-end APIs in Python/FastAPI
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers
• Participate in an Agile software development life cycle
• Write well-designed, maintainable & testable code
• Be product-minded and think about the customer
• Work with Python, Docker, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, etc
• Contribute to open-source projects

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience developing web-based applications and platforms
• Expertise in writing REST / JSON APIs
• Experience working with B2B integrations
• Experience writing software tests
• Experience with ETL pipelines or data engineering
• Ability to solve technical problems independently
• Motivation to work hard and always be learning
• Experience using agentic software development tools and processes
• Build and ship product features end-to-end
• Ability to write clear and well defined design documentation
• Mentor fellow engineers
• Lead application architecture decisions
• Troubleshoot, debug and resolve software bugs
• Implement back-end APIs in Python/FastAPI
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers
• Participate in an Agile software development life cycle
• Write well-designed, maintainable & testable code
• Be product-minded and think about the customer
• Work with Python, Docker, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, etc
• Contribute to open-source projects
• Experience working on SaaS web applications/platforms
• Experience creating developer documentation
• Bonus: Docker or Kubernetes experience
• Bonus: GRC or CyberSecurity domain experience
• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)