Senior, Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Engineer role at DEPT® owning significant portions of backend projects, primarily backend-focused with occasional cloud infrastructure work and comfort in a modern frontend codebase.

What you'll do

• Build and deploy scalable backend services and APIs for global brands, taking high ownership of your workstreams and their dependencies.
• Take specs that are incomplete or ambiguous, resolve the open questions, and turn them into clear requirements, tasks, and stories with time-to-complete estimates people can plan around.
• Participate in technical design of systems, schemas, and pipelines, and offer sound guidance on architecture and infrastructure decisions.
• Integrate third-party APIs and systems, and design the contracts that frontend teams and other services build against.
• Perform code reviews that raise the bar, both submitting your own work and giving constructive feedback that makes your teammates better.
• Surface technical blockers, risks, and client-facing issues early enough for the team to course-correct.
• Advocate for best practices in testing, security, performance, and CI/CD, and encourage others to do the same.
• Work directly with working-level client stakeholders over email, on calls, and in person, and start building demo and presentation content of your own.
• Apply AI and agentic capabilities to real client work, and contribute back to how the craft adopts them through reusable templates, prototyping sessions, and practical guidance for other teams.
• Share what you learn, internally through Slack, brown bags, and DEPT U, and externally through articles or talks as project work allows.

What you'll need

• Proven experience building and maintaining production-level backend systems used by real people.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience designing and integrating APIs and third-party systems.
• Solid working knowledge of database platforms, both SQL and NoSQL.
• Enough familiarity with modern frontend development (preferably Angular and Typescript) to read the code, review a PR, and debug across the stack.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider. Google Cloud preferred, AWS or Azure also welcome.
• Daily, real-world use of GenAI productivity tools (Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Codex) in your development workflow.
• A working understanding of core LLM concepts and where they're a good fit for a problem.
• Fluency with version control (git), Agile processes, and CI/CD tooling.
• The ability to research independently and know when to ask for help, without spinning wheels on already-solved problems.
• A track record of "getting sh*t done" in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Experience mentoring engineers earlier in their careers.
• Exposure to agent development frameworks.
• Contributions to open source, technical writing, or conference speaking.

Details

• Location: US Remote (NY, US; CA, US; IL, US).
• Anticipated salary range: $122,000 — $150,000 USD, based on a 40-hour workweek and leveling.
• Benefits include healthcare, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with matching, PTO, paid company holidays, and parental leave.
• DEPT® participates in E-Verify.