Senior Software Engineer

Cruit Group; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cruit Group in Miami is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. This is a hands-on, high-impact role focused on building, optimizing, and scaling our core platform with emphasis on payroll, employee benefits, HRIS, and compliance-heavy SaaS systems.

You will collaborate with Product Leaders to translate business goals into robust technical solutions, write clean, tested code, and lead architectural discussions while maintaining high velocity through CI/CD and

Qualifications

• 7 years of commercial software engineering experience across web applications and backend systems.
• AI Coding Tool Mastery: proficiency with AI-assisted coding tools.
• Automated Testing: hands-on with end-to-end testing frameworks (Playwright or Cypress).
• Scalable Web Engineering: proven track record building and scaling production web platforms.
• API design & integrations with REST/GraphQL and third-party vendors.
• Startup mindset with strong debugging in fast-moving startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Feature development across the full application stack.
• Improve performance, reliability, and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with Product Leaders to translate goals into robust technical solutions.
• Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to long-term architectural decisions.
• Lead code reviews, champion best practices, and reduce technical friction.
• Optimize CI/CD and automated testing to accelerate releases.

Skills

Years of experience

AI coding tools mastery

End-to-end testing

Scalable web engineering

API design & integrations

Startup mindset

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

AWS

Docker

Claude Code ecosystem

Job description

About Us

The federal government spends over $700 billion annually contracting private companies for critical services—from medical staffing and logistics to IT and infrastructure. Many of these contracts legally require employers to allocate specific funds toward employee benefits. Today, much of this ecosystem remains bogged down by complex compliance frameworks, disconnected vendors, and manual tracking systems.

We build modern financial, benefits, and compliance software that automates real-time benefit tracking, streamlines administration, and transforms regulatory complexity into a seamless software solution.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. This is a hands-on, high-impact role focused on building, optimizing, and scaling our core platform.

We place a high premium on domain expertise in payroll, employee benefits, HRIS, or similar business-critical SaaS systems. If you have built complex platforms with intricate workflows, strict compliance constraints, or heavy business logic, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Feature Development: Build and deploy core features across our full application stack.
• Systems Architecture & Scale: Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing services and data pipelines.
• Product Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Leaders to translate high-level business goals into robust technical solutions.
• Technical Excellence: Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code, lead technical design discussions, and contribute to long-term architectural decisions.
• Engineering Standards: Lead code reviews, champion best practices, and proactively eliminate technical friction before it reaches customers.
• CI/CD & Quality Automation: Optimize automated testing frameworks, deployment workflows, and release cycles to maintain high execution velocity.

(Note: This is a hands-on engineering role where you will spend the majority of your time writing code, orchestrating AI developer tools, and shipping features.)

What We’re Looking For

Essential Qualifications

• 7 years of commercial software engineering experience across web applications and backend systems.
• AI Coding Tool Mastery: High proficiency with AI-assisted software tools (e.g., Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or similar environments). You know how to orchestrate these agents for maximum accuracy, safety, and output velocity.
• Automated Testing: Hands-on experience with modern end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks (e.g., Playwright or Cypress).
• Scalable Web Engineering: Proven track record of building and scaling production web platforms.
• API & Integrations: Strong API design principles (REST/GraphQL) and experience connecting complex third-party vendor platforms.
• Startup Mindset: Exceptional debugging skills and comfort navigating high-velocity, fast-changing startup environments.

Domain Expertise

We believe domain context is essential for effectively guiding and evaluating AI coding agents. We strongly prefer candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Payroll & Employee Benefits (Strongly Preferred)
• HRIS / Human Capital Management Platforms
• Financial & Payments Software
• Healthcare Technology & HIPAA-aware systems
• Compliance-heavy, rules-engine SaaS platforms
• Enterprise workflow automation

Tech Stack

• Languages & Frameworks: Modern PHP (with strategic plans for long-term ecosystem evolution), React
• Testing & CI/CD: Playwright, GitHub Actions
• Infrastructure & Tooling: AWS, Docker, AI developer tools (Claude Code ecosystem)