Description
Role Overview
You’re a hands-on backend engineer who enjoys owning features end to end and working on real products that customers rely on every day. In this Software Engineer II role, you’ll help build and evolve a Third Party Risk Management SaaS platform using Laravel and PHP, designing scalable APIs and services that keep performance and reliability front and center.
You’ll work in a product-focused team that owns its services from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. You’ll mentor junior engineers, influence technical decisions, and use modern AI-powered tools thoughtfully to ship better code faster. If you’re looking for a mid-level role with real ownership, modern tooling, and the chance to grow your impact, this is for you.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff)
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Design, build, and maintain backend features and RESTful APIs in Laravel within a modern TALL stack environment.
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Own well-defined stories from implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration, ensuring performance and reliability.
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Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decisions that shape the Third Party Risk Management platform.
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Review code, improve test coverage, and strengthen CI/CD and engineering standards across the team.
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Mentor Software Engineer I colleagues through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
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Use AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation—while critically validating outputs and ensuring safe, responsible use.
These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview
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3–5 years of professional software engineering experience in an agile, fast-paced environment.
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Strong experience with PHP and Laravel, ideally within the TALL stack (Tailwind, Alpine.js, Laravel, Livewire).
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Solid understanding of relational databases (MySQL or MariaDB), including data modelling and query optimisation.
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Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and working on system integrations.
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Practical experience with AWS or a similar cloud platform, plus comfort working with Docker or other containerised environments.
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Confident debugging production issues using logs, monitoring, and observability tools.
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Clear communication skills and the ability to discuss architecture, document designs, and collaborate effectively with engineers and non-engineers.
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Practical experience using AI tools in your development workflow and awareness of their limitations, privacy, and security implications.
It would be great if you had these too, but we’ll support you if you don’t
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Experience with frontend technologies such as Vue, React, Blade, or Livewire in a Laravel context.
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Prior exposure to building or maintaining SaaS products, especially in risk, security, or governance domains.
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Experience mentoring others, leading technical initiatives, or improving developer experience and team workflows.
About Us
Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.
Learn more at diligent.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook
What Diligent Offers You
- Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
- We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
- We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
- Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.
Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.
Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney. To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.
Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and US EEOC’s Know Your Rights. We are a drug free workplace.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at recruitment@diligent.com.
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