Overview
Who We Are: AuditBoard is the leading audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform. We serve more than 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, with award-winning technology. We are top-rated on G2 and Gartner Peer Insights. We are committed to innovation, helping customers, and contributing to our communities. We are one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America according to Deloitte for six consecutive years.
Why This Role is Exciting: This role defines the technical future of the organization within engineering. You will lead with autonomy, direct technical vision across teams, mentor engineers, and own significant technical challenges—from designing enterprise-scale systems to architectural patterns that define our platform for years to come. You will communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, drive consensus, and independently own initiatives from concept to delivery. We are looking for a technical leader who can elevate the entire engineering organization and drive excellence through learning and customer focus.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive technical designs for complex systems, including cloud-native, distributed, and service architectures, setting the standard for the organization.
- Establish and evolve best practices and guidelines for software development, integration, testing, and deployment across the engineering organization.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with developers, infrastructure engineers, product owners, and executive stakeholders to ensure consistent implementation of the architecture and alignment with business strategy.
- Drive adoption of new technologies and approaches across teams, focusing on scalability, reliability, and security, and make strategic technical decisions affecting the platform.
- Communicate architectural vision, strategies, and the benefits of design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
- Lead the development and implementation of large-scale engineering initiatives, from conception to completion, with full ownership of outcomes.
- Demonstrate deep expertise with TypeScript, Node.js, Ember, Python, Go, Docker, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
- Lead thorough testing, debugging, and optimization of solutions, establishing quality standards for the organization.
- Champion Agile software development practices and drive continuous improvement in team processes.
- Explore and innovate on micro-frontend framework solutions to enable modular, scalable, and independently deployable frontend architectures across the platform.
- Define the vision for AI-powered tools and agentic workflows, driving organization-wide adoption to accelerate development and improve code quality.
- Serve as the primary technical leader and mentor for engineers at all levels, establishing agentic coding practices and knowledge-sharing culture to elevate the entire engineering organization.
Attributes for a Successful Candidate
- 10+ years of experience developing web-based applications with a proven track record of delivering large-scale, complex projects
- Deep expertise in programming languages (e.g., JavaScript/TS, Go, Python) and extensive experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Extensive experience with SPA frameworks (e.g., Ember.js, React, Vue) and distributed systems architecture.
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills with demonstrated ability to influence at all levels of the organization
- Natural ability to lead and direct technical vision across multiple teams and projects
- History of mentoring and developing other engineers
- Passion for technical excellence and continuous learning
Nice to Have
- BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- Experience with Workflow Orchestration
- Docker or Kubernetes experience
- Experience with Grafana, DataDog, or other observability platforms
- Track record of building and scaling SaaS web applications
- Active contributor to or maintainer of open-source projects
- Deep knowledge of security frameworks and data privacy standards
- Experience with micro-frontend architectures and frameworks (e.g., Module Federation, Single-SPA, or similar solutions)
Our Company Values
- Customer obsession: Apply relentless focus on listening to and understanding customers as the core of everything we do
- Win, together: Drive to be the best while supporting each other’s success
- Gritty resilience: Thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, balancing immediate priorities with big-picture strategic goals
- Personal improvement: Stay eager to share insights, seek feedback, and continuously learn
- Constant innovation: Challenge the status quo and drive improvements
Perks
- Launch a career at one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in North America
- Live your best life (LYBL)! $200/mo for anything that enhances your life
- Comprehensive employee health coverage (all locations)
- 401K with match (US) or pension with match (UK)
- Competitive compensation & bonus program
- Flexible Vacation (US exempt & CA) or 25 days (UK)
- Time off for your birthday & volunteering
- Employee resource groups
- Opportunities for team and company-wide get-togethers
*perks may vary based on eligibility/location
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 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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