Senior Backend Software Engineer, SecurityScorecard
$100-180k
OTE
3 days a week in office
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
Be an early applicant
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-180k
OTE
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SecurityScorecard's mission is to make the world a safer place by transforming the way organizations understand, mitigate, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience working in agile environments (ideally Scrum), collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, product)
- Strong proficiency in server-side development with hands-on experience in building scalable and reliable back-end systems
- Proficient in Node.js and Typescript; experience with Python is a plus
- Advanced experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and distributed systems (CockroachDB, ClickHouse)
- Familiarity with Kafka for building real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures
- Expertise in using Docker for containerization, Jenkins for CI/CD, and Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.) for cloud-based application deployment and management
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating with external services
- Lead code reviews to ensure best practices, maintainability, and continuous improvement of the codebase
- Strong understanding of building scalable and high-performance back-end systems, optimizing for low-latency and high-throughput
- Ability to write and maintain unit and integration tests based on acceptance criteria, ensuring code quality and reliability
- Proficiency with version control tools, particularly Git, for collaborative development and code management
- Strong attention to documentation and maintaining standards across projects
- Ability to present and defend technical decisions with confidence
- Skilled at estimating project complexity based on early documentation and discussions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions clearly
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Back-end Engineer who thrives on building commercial products and plays a key role in delivering reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications
- You will lead projects from start to finish, collaborating with Product Managers, and UX Designers to define requirements, implement solutions, and ensure ongoing success post-deployment
- You’ll focus on simplicity while contributing technical insights to enhance the system's performance, stability, and user experience
- Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle, from design and development to deployment and maintenance
- Follow clean code principles, using best practices to write secure, testable, and well-documented software
- Work closely with a global team, including engineers, product managers, and UX designers, to build a stable, high-performance platform
- Implement comprehensive testing and performance tuning to ensure system stability and uptime
- Translate requirements, estimate effort, and address or escalate blockers as needed
- Own end-to-end projects, understanding and contributing to all aspects (infrastructure, application tiers, and data tiers)
- Write clean, maintainable code that adheres to best practices in readability, design patterns, reusability, and testing
- Continuously monitor performance metrics and recommend improvements or refactors
Our take
Organizations understand the value of data and the value of business partnerships that will help them leverage it. However, involving more companies increases the risk of vulnerabilities, and therefore costly data breaches. SecurityScorecard is a cloud-based enterprise SaaS solution that helps organizations assess and manage cybersecurity risks, offering analyses of potential partner companies using A-F security ratings.
SecurityScorecard looms over its competitors as it covers millions of companies, offering near-instant cybersecurity analyses and an array of capabilities. It has a large, global, and big-name customer base, including 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 9 of the top 10 banking institutions, and it is likely to go public in the next few years.
It has both developed and consolidated an impressive lead in a sector that will continue growing and rewarding cutting-edge security solutions. It looks set to remain an industry leader with demonstrable, accessible, and highly attractive customer offerings. In 2024, this included a supply chain cyber risk management platform - MAX - which is driving record revenue.
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Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2021
$180m
SERIES E
Jun 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $294.4m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- 12 weeks of paid maternity leave / 4 weeks paid paternity leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- 401K
- $3k annual education stipend per employee
- Full access to our learning platform and company professional development events
- Up to $10K referral bonus
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Aleksandr Yampolskiy
(CEO)Worked at Oracle and Goldman Sachs, before serving for 2 years as CISO of Gilt Group. Founded NYC Technology Startup, Meetup, in 2012 and then worked as CTO of Cinchcast.
Sam Kassoumeh
(COO)Progressed from Technology Compliance Manager to Head of Security and Compliance at Gilt Groupe within 4 years, and worked as Cyber Security Advisor for Billy.
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