Staff Software Engineer - Backend, AI Governance Location: United States Remote Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote Department: Technology Compensation - $181.6K – $249.7K • Offers Bonus • 20% Annual Target Bonus At Optro, we provide a fair and competitive salary based on a variety of factors, including: - The scope and responsibilities of the role - Your relevant skills, experience, and certifications - Where you are physically located (based on our regional tier system) Note on Internal Ranges: Optro maintains broader internal salary grades to allow for future career growth and merit-based increases within the role over time. Overview Who We Are Having surpassed $300M ARR and continuing to grow, Optro is the leading audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform on the market. More than 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, leverage our award-winning technology to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. And our customers love us: Optro is top-rated on G2.com and Gartner Peer Insights. At Optro, we inspire each other to innovate and are proud of what we are producing. We spend each day thinking of new ways to help our customers and contribute to the greater good of our company and our surrounding communities. We are all about assisting each other and breaking through barriers to create the most loved audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform by our customers. This is how we have become one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America for the seventh year in a row, as ranked by Deloitte! Why This Role is Exciting: 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. Our ideal candidate is someone who loves to collaborate with others but can also work independently to take an idea from concept to implementation. 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. Responsibilities - 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 Attributes for a Successful Candidate: - 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 Preferred Skills - 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) Perks (United States) - Launch a career at one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in North America and EMEA! - Live your best life (LYBL)! $200/mo for anything that enhances your life - Comprehensive employee health coverage - 401(k) with company match - Competitive compensation & bonus program - Flexible vacation (exempt) / Accrued vacation (non-exempt) - Time off for your birthday & volunteering - Employee resource groups - Opportunities for team and company-wide get-togethers! - Parental Leave *perks may vary based on eligibility/location Our Company Values - Customer obsession: It starts and ends here. Consistently ask yourself how what you’re doing creates value for our customers. It’s a mindset. - Gritty resilience: Make it happen. Find a way. Move fast, stay positive, and do what it takes. - Drive innovation: Create the future. Continuously improve what exists and invent what’s next. - Win, together: One team. No silos, no egos. Drive to be the best and support each other’s success. - Growth mindset: 10x, not 10%. Think in orders of magnitude, not increments. Seek feedback, learn, and improve. Please note that background checks are required. Qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. This role may have access to highly sensitive data, including employee data, customer data, company financials, and proprietary product information. 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• API Development: Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs using .NET C#, focusing on performance, reliability, and security. • Entity Framework & SQL: Develop efficient data models using Entity Framework Core, and write optimized SQL queries for relational databases like SQL Server. • Cloud Transition Support: Contribute to new development efforts that utilize Azure services (e.g., Azure Functions, App Services, Azure SQL) as we begin migrating from on-prem infrastructure. • Machine Learning Integration: Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate machine learning models via RESTful APIs or Azure ML services. • Clean, Maintainable Code: Follow best practices to write testable, maintainable, and well-documented code. • Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with fellow developers and business partners to deliver secure, scalable solutions. • CI/CD Practices: Support continuous integration and delivery efforts using tools like GitHub Actions. • Problem Solving: Investigate and resolve performance issues, bugs, and bottlenecks in existing systems.

• Implement software through coding, including deployment of developed systems to the bank's environments; • Provide support and maintenance for software written in legacy technologies, performing timely and targeted modifications and interventions to maintain availability, stability, performance, and alignment with business needs; • Build APIs and customize integrations; • Document delivered software, favoring the simplicity advocated by agile methods; • Develop software using test-driven development (TDD); • Create databases and integrate them with other applications; • Evaluate and implement application performance monitoring; • Conduct user acceptance (homologation), controls, and software quality assurance (QA) analysis.

• Develop and maintain Java applications • Build and integrate RESTful APIs • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on microservices architecture • Work on cloud-based solutions like AWS