Staff Backend Software Engineer, Optro
AI Governance
$181.6-249.7k
Offers 20% Annual Target Bonus
AI-powered GRC software
Be an early applicant
AI-powered GRC software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$181.6-249.7k
Offers 20% Annual Target Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To redefine GRC through a single, AI-powered system of action.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate is someone who loves to collaborate with others but can also work independently to take an idea from concept to implementation
- 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
Desirable
- 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)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly motivated staff software engineer who can lead large, strategic, and complex projects
- This position demands a high level leadership, mentoring other engineers and helping to design and architect scalable solutions
- In this role, you will face a huge array of challenges - from building scalable systems to designing new product features
- We're a hardworking, energetic team that is passionate about our customers and believes that to be successful we should never stop learning: learning about our customers, our product, and how to build better software
- 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
Our take
Optro (formerly AuditBoard) provides risk and compliance software for large businesses. The company's founders spent years working at the Big Four and other global enterprises, and realized that many audit activities were still taking place in Excel sheets, or using legacy software like IBM's OpenPages, which hadn't kept up to date with the latest reporting requirements.
The result was an end-to-end platform for managing risk, helping enterprises to streamline internal audit, SOX compliance, controls management, risk management, and security compliance. It's a top-rated cloud-based platform and has won numerous awards, with the company being consistently named the market leader in Audit Management.
Now Optro is focused on expanding its AI-powered GRC platform. Following its rebrand from AuditBoard, the company acquired AI-native SOX automation platform Midship to help audit teams automate repetitive work and focus more on strategic risk analysis. And impressively, more than 50% of the Fortune 500 now use Optro's platform as it continues building AI-driven tools for risk, compliance, and cybersecurity teams.
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Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2018
$40m
SERIES B
Apr 2017
$3.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43.6m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness benefits: High quality health plans and access to hormonal and family-building support.
- Time away from work: Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, sick time, bereavement, and more.
- Financial benefits: Beyond a competitive salary, plans are provided to assist in your financial future including retirement and pension plans as well as life and disability insurance.
- Parental leave: Parents are eligible for time off to care for their newborn, adopted child, or foster child. Parental leave benefits and pay vary by location.
- Professional development: Continuously grow through development workshops, mentoring programs, and more.
- Community impact: We partner with communities to provide services in addition to sponsoring our own events.
- Live your best life: Invest in yourself, on us. Our monthly wellness stipend is designed to support your life beyond the screen, giving you the flexibility to fuel your passions and your well-being.
- Mental health: Access to Headspace’s well known meditation support plus coaching and therapy, for you and additional loved ones.
Company HQ
Wilmington, DE
Leadership
Raul Villar Jr.
(CEO)Prior to joining Optro in 2025, Raul was the CEO of Paycor for nearly 6 years. They also spent over 8 years at AdvancedMD and nearly 22 years at ADP.
Jim Sperduto
(CGO)Prior to joining Optro in 2025, Jim spent over 30 years at ADP. While there, they held a number of roles, including President of Small Business, Retirement, and Insurance Services.
Haibei (Happy) Wang
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Prior to joining Optro in 2023, Haibei was the CTO at Everbridge and Skupos. They also held VP roles at Globality, AccelOps and Scripps Network Interactive.
April Crichlow
(CMO)April spent over 17 years at SAP, ultimately as CMO at SAP SuccessFactors. They then spent 3 years at Centrical as CMO before joining Optro in 2025.
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