Senior Software Engineer

Bankrate is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain the scalable, secure systems behind its digital experiences. The role shapes technical architecture and engineering practices, improves delivery and reliability, and partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver customer and business outcomes.

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
• Evaluate tools, techniques, and technologies that could improve team and business outcomes, and bring relevant insights back to the team

Requirements:

• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and deep expertise in at least one technology domain
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and the 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
• Consistent track record of delivering end-to-end solutions independently, from design through production
• Effective communicator who can influence decisions and translate complex technical concepts clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Deep fluency in TypeScript across API services and full-stack web applications, including strong typing practices that enforce correctness across API boundaries
• Strong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation
• Proven track record of applying observability and APM tooling, performance monitoring, and CDN/edge delivery practices to improve system reliability and speed, and contributing to code quality, design consistency, and operational reliability across the team
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt AI coding tools (such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot) to raise team throughput and reduce toil, while maintaining a high review and quality bar