Senior Software Engineer

Bankrate, a Red Ventures business, provides financial comparison products and data to help consumers make informed decisions. The Senior Software Engineer will design and deliver scalable, secure software systems, contribute to architecture, improve delivery reliability, partner across functions, and mentor engineers while connecting technical work to business value.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable systems within a team or product area
• Contribute to the evolution of technical architecture and engineering patterns in alignment with organizational standards
• Build and optimize continuous delivery pipelines, improving deployment speed and reliability
• Partner with product and design peers to translate business objectives into actionable technical work
• Scope, estimate, and deliver medium-to-large initiatives with minimal oversight
• Collaborate across teams to resolve technical challenges, dependencies, and integration issues
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, design discussions, and collaborative problem-solving
• Contribute to the definition and improvement of team-level engineering practices and technical standards
• Demonstrate curiosity and continuous learning — evaluating tools, techniques, and technologies that could improve team and business outcomes

Requirements:

• • Proficiency in multiple programming languages and deep expertise in at least one technology domain
• • Strong understanding of software architecture principles and ability to apply them effectively within team scope
• • Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-based services
• • Proven ability to make informed tradeoffs balancing cost, scalability, security, and maintainability
• • Effective communicator, able to influence decisions and share complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• • Consistently delivers end-to-end solutions independently, from design through production
• • Contributes to improving code quality, design consistency, and operational reliability across the team
• • Models accountability, technical rigor, and collaborative problem-solving
• • Naturally curious and growth-minded - stays current with industry trends and applies relevant insights to the team's work
• • Deep fluency in our primarily TypeScript-based stack across API services and full-stack web applications
• • Strong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation
• • Applies observability/APM, performance monitoring, and CDN/edge delivery practices to improve reliability and speed
• • Evaluates and adopts AI tooling thoughtfully within their domain, helping shape team-level norms for where it adds the most value
• • Fluent with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or Microsoft Copilot, and able to use them to raise team throughput and reduce toil while holding the review and quality bar
• Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours
• *This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East Coast preference), with hybrid being central to our New York, NY or Charlotte area offices