Senior Backend Engineer: SaaS, APIs & Cloud

BitSight; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bitsight is seeking a highly experienced backend engineer to join one of our multicultural engineering teams, focusing on our Third Party Risk Management business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you are known for thinking on your feet and owning a problem to resolution, delivering high-quality software in a fast-paced, high-trust environment.

You will work with Python and modern frameworks in AWS, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, REST APIs, and data-driven engineering, while collaborating closely

Qualifications

• Five years of experience as a Software Engineer building and maintaining a SaaS application.
• Experience with CI/CD (Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong experience with Python and modern Python frameworks and technologies, such as Django, FastAPI, Flask, SQLAlchemy.

Responsibilities

• Own loosely defined features from technical design through completion, and deliver on commitments.
• Develop and maintain backend services for a SaaS platform.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to improve software quality in a continuous delivery environment.
• Contribute to open communication and best practices within a high-trust engineering culture.

Skills

Growth mindset

Own loosely defined features

Communication

Team collaboration

English communication

Tools

Gitlab CI/CD

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Python

SQLAlchemy

AWS

REST APIs

Job description

Bitsight is seeking a highly experienced backend engineer to join one of our multicultural engineering teams, focusing on our Third Party Risk Management business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you are known for thinking on your feet and owning a problem to resolution, delivering high-quality software in a fast-paced, high-trust environment.

You will work with Python and modern frameworks in AWS, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, REST APIs, and data-driven engineering, while collaborating closely