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Position Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer at Diligent, you’ll lead the design and development of robust, scalable, and user-centric frontend applications using Angular and TypeScript. In this Staff Individual Contributor role, you will drive technical direction and cross-team architecture, collaborating closely with product, design, and engineering stakeholders. You’ll have significant ownership across the entire frontend lifecycle—from architecture and implementation through deployment and monitoring—while helping shape our AI strategy and mentoring teams on AI capabilities, safety, and governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of frontend architecture across multiple teams, ensuring consistency, performance, and scalability.
• Influence and define the frontend technology stack, with a focus on Angular, TypeScript, and modern web standards.
• Act as a technical consultant to stakeholders, translating business needs into elegant, user-centric frontend solutions.
• Evaluate and pilot emerging frontend and backend technologies, frameworks, and tooling to improve developer productivity and user experience.
• Own projects end-to-end, from prototyping and implementation to deployment and monitoring, with a focus on frontend excellence.
• Pioneer AI-driven solutions by advising on model capabilities, crafting effective prompt strategies, and embedding governance and monitoring into development workflows.
• Partner with Product, Security, and DevOps to shape technical roadmaps, ensure compliance, and seamlessly integrate AI features that deliver real business value.
• Mentor engineers in best practices and AI-augmented workflows, fostering a culture of experimentation, learning, and ethical AI adoption.
• Stay ahead of emerging AI trends and regulations, proactively adapting designs and practices to meet evolving standards and steer future innovation.

Required Experience/Skills

• 7–10 years of experience building modern, scalable frontend applications, with deep expertise in TypeScript and Angular.
• Proven track record of technical leadership in frontend architecture, including cross-team influence and mentoring.
• Experience delivering robust applications using both backend infrastructure and modern frontend tooling, with familiarity in DevOps practices such as CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.
• Integrates security best practices (such as authentication, authorization, secrets management, and privacy/bias checks) into all work, including AI-powered and user-facing features, and embeds these controls in delivery pipelines.
• Deep understanding of AI integration in frontend applications, including prompt engineering, model architectures, bias and safety concerns, and the ability to guide teams on responsible and user-friendly implementations.
• Excellent at communicating technical and AI-related concepts to diverse stakeholders, with a proven ability to lead projects, shape engineering culture, and mentor peers in AI-augmented development workflows.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.

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.

We are a drug free workplace. 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 Know Your Rights. 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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