Manager, Software Engineering (Python)

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.

At Diligent, we're building the future with people who think boldly and move fast. Whether you're designing systems that leverage large language models or part of a team reimaging workflows with AI, you'll help us unlock entirely new ways of working and thinking. Curiosity is in our DNA, we look for individuals willing to ask the big questions and experiment fearlessly - those who embrace change not as a challenge, but as an opportunity. The future belongs to those who keep learning, and we are building it together. At Diligent, you’re not just building the future - you’re an agent of positive change, joining a global community on a mission to make an impact.

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Position Overview

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of software engineers in building scalable, reliable, and efficient web applications and microservices in the for “News and Competitive Data Analysis Platform”. You will drive technical excellence, system architecture, and best practices while fostering a high-performance engineering culture. You’ll be responsible for managing engineering execution, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality solutions.

Your expertise in Python, Django, React, Apache Solr, RabbitMQ, and Postges and other NoSQL cloud databases will help shape the technical strategy of our SaaS platform. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and DevOps teams to align engineering efforts with business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the design and development of internal platforms that empower product teams to build, deploy, and scale services seamlessly.

Integrate AI/ML capabilities into platform tools—such as semantic search, intelligent alerting, auto-scaling, and workflow automation.

Optimize distributed backend systems (using Celery, RabbitMQ) for efficiency, reliability, and performance across tasks like crawling, processing, and notifications.

Collaborate closely with DevOps, SRE, data, and ML teams to build secure, observable, and scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP.

Drive cloud modernization, including the strategic migration from GCP to AWS, standardizing on containerization and CI/CD best practices.

Foster a culture of platform ownership, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement across tooling, monitoring, and reliability.

Mentor engineers, enabling them to grow technically while influencing platform architecture and cross-team impact.

Required Experience/Skills:

8+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role.

Strong hands-on experience with Python (Django, Celery), React, and building scalable distributed systems.

Deep knowledge of message brokers (RabbitMQ), PostgreSQL, and search technologies like Apache Solr or Elasticsearch.

Exposure to AI/ML technologies—such as NLP, semantic search, LLMs, or vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone).

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability tools.

Proven ability to lead cloud migration initiatives and manage infrastructure across AWS/GCP.

A platform-first mindset—focused on developer productivity, reusability, scalability, and system performance.

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 .

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