Staff Software Engineer (GRC Infrastructure)

Formalize; Denmark; On-site; DKK 882,000 - 993,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa support

Office in a central location

Career development framework

Annual Global Summit

Job summary

Formalize is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own end-to-end product development and drive architecture across the GRC infrastructure. You’ll balance business needs with long-term technical health and coordinate with engineers to advance our engineering practices.

You will mentor senior engineers, lead architectural sessions, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to shape scalable solutions across the stack.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of at least one layer of our stack (PHP/Angular) and strong software architecture.
• Production experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable systems end-to-end.
• Focus on quality and value delivery in product development.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the full product development end-to-end.
• Act as a technical lighthouse, defining architecture and balancing business needs with long-term technical health.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to shape solutions and oversee technical implementations.
• Lead and mentor without direct people management, promoting continuous learning and knowledge-sharing across the organization.

Skills

Software architecture

System design

Mentoring

Leadership

Communication

Tools

PHP

Angular

Laravel

PostgreSQL

Redis

Claude Code

AWS Serverless

Job description

In this Staff Software Engineering role, you’ll be …

• Responsible for the full product development end-to-end.
• A technical lighthouse, defining architecture, balancing business needs with long-term technical health, and coordinating with other engineers to move how we do engineering forward.
• Collaborating across Engineering, Product, and Design to shape the solution to the problem and oversee technical implementations from end to end.
• A leader and mentor without direct people management. Continuous learning and knowledge-sharing are in your DNA, as you challenge the status quo, unblock engineers across the organisation, and mentor senior team members to help them achieve greater impact.

Who is the GRC Infrastructure Team?

The GRC Infrastructure team is the core team of our Formalize product, which works on our strategic mission to build the flexible and secure engine that powers our entire Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platform.

Here, the team designs, builds, and maintains the foundational modules to support our customers in their GRC needs.

Essentially, we build things from an infrastructure-first principle, where we solve specific GRC problems with generic and flexible modules to allow our customers to shape our software to their specific needs.

Our tech stack:

• PHP with Laravel
• Angular 22
• TailwindCSS
• PostgreSQL
• Redis for caching
• Claude Code
• Serverless infrastructure on AWS

Not an expert in our entire stack? No problem. At Formalize, we value curiosity and a willingness to learn. With solid fundamentals and the right mindset, we will help you grow the rest.

What you’ll bring:

• Expert knowledge in at least one layer of our technical stack (we work with PHP and Angular), as well as general software architecture and system design.
• Demonstrated staff experience in a Software Engineering role, designing, building, and maintaining highly scalable systems in production, end-to-end.
• Experience in product development with a focus on quality and value delivery.
• The ability to clearly define technical direction for systems and lead deep architectural and software design sessions.
• Good engineering practices for testing, deployment, & observability paired with the ability to communicate strategic trade-offs clearly, mentor senior colleagues, and increase impact across the organisation.
• The ability to raise the bar for engineering quality and performance through reference implementations and by defining ever-evolving code standards.

We offer you:

• A starting salary of 79,000 DKK per month. As you grow within this role, your compensation can grow with you up to 89,000 DKK per month.
• Continuous development through a clear and transparent framework, so you always know what the next step looks like through bi-annual growth talks and regular check-ins.
• Thorough pre-boarding and onboarding to set you up for success.
• An office-first culture in a centrally located office, along with visa support if needed.
• A culture of ownership, trust, and independence with the support you need.
• A strong team spirit where we celebrate wins and enjoy time together across offices.
• Our annual Global Summit, where the whole company connects over strategic achievements and projects.

Our recruitment process:

• Send your application and upload relevant information.
• 30-minute online interview with our Talent Acquisition team.
• 30-minute online interview with the Hiring Manager.
• Completion of Personality Assessment & 1h Technical Assessment.
  • A collaborative no-coding session where we work through building a real feature in Formalize: clarifying requirements, data modelling, and walking through pseudo-code together.
• 30-minute walkthrough of our career framework and offer details.
• 60-minute in-person interview to meet the team.

About Formalize

Formalize is a tech company founded in 2021 with offices in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Milan, Madrid and Munich. Currently, we are a team of +200 people from 19 nationalities operating in multiple European markets and are one of the fastest growing SaaS scale-ups. We thrive on ambition, deliver impact through pragmatism, and embrace passion and honesty. We are celebrating our wins, learn from our mistakes, and grow together as a team.

Our journey began within the whistleblowing compliance sector, highlighted by the award-winning Whistleblower Software by Formalize, laying the foundation of our success story. Now, we have extended our expertise to a larger compliance universe, including data compliance, risk, and privacy.

Our Formalize product helps companies to effortlessly navigate and stay ahead in the ever-changing landscape of compliance. Our platform adapts to regulatory changes, continuously adapting to meet and foresee the evolving needs of our users, ensuring businesses remain compliant and confident in their operations.

Still curious? Read more about us here: About Formalize.