Senior, Software Engineer

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own significant backend components, design scalable APIs, and collaborate across product, frontend, marketing, and finance teams. The role emphasizes pragmatic, fast delivery while maintaining code quality and operational reliability.

You will work primarily on backend systems with occasional frontend touches, and engage in architecture decisions, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration to ship impactful features for clients globally.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend software development.
• Experience building scalable APIs and services.
• Proficient in cloud deployments and CI/CD.
• Strong collaboration with product and frontend teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy scalable backend services and APIs for global brands with high ownership of workstreams.
• Turn incomplete or ambiguous specs into clear requirements, tasks, and stories with estimates.
• Participate in technical design of systems, schemas, and pipelines and advise on architecture and infrastructure decisions.
• Integrate third-party APIs and systems and define contracts for frontend teams and other services.
• Perform code reviews to raise the bar and provide constructive feedback.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Cloud infra

Code reviews

Team collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS

Job description

WHY DEPT®?

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

What we believe in

We build software for the world's most ambitious brands, and we're opinionated about how it gets made:

• Code quality is a top priority. Style guides, code reviews, and best practices are how we move fast without breaking things. You'll also get your hands on a wide range of cutting-edge technology.
• Great UI/UX is critical. Aesthetics, usability, and speed are all part of the product. A technically correct experience that feels bad isn't finished.
• Collaboration wins projects. Great communication is the single strongest predictor of whether a project goes well.
• We're pragmatic. We know what to build and what to leave alone, and we make real-world tradeoffs between cost, speed, and craft. Shipping something useful beats architecting something perfect.
• We're intellectually curious. We're constantly learning through craft show & tells, lunch & learns, workshares, and active Slack channels full of talented engineers across the globe.

The role

As a Senior Engineer, you own significant portions of a project and drive them to completion. You take a semi-defined problem, ask the questions that sharpen it, turn it into a plan, and ship it. You're past the stage of needing fully specified tasks handed to you, and you're building the judgment to know which task matters most.

You're comfortable working alongside product managers, engineers, marketing, sales, and finance, and you can explain your work to any of them without retreating into jargon. Most of what we build depends on getting those people to a shared understanding of what's being made and why.

This role is primarily backend focused, occasionally diving into cloud infrastructure. However, you should also be comfortable enough in a modern frontend codebase to apply best practices and create something visually appealing and smooth to use.

What you'll do

• Build and deploy scalable backend services and APIs for global brands, taking high ownership of your workstreams and their dependencies.
• Take specs that are incomplete or ambiguous, resolve the open questions, and turn them into clear requirements, tasks, and stories with time-to-complete estimates people can plan around.
• Participate in technical design of systems, schemas, and pipelines, and offer sound guidance on architecture and infrastructure decisions.
• Integrate third-party APIs and systems, and design the contracts that frontend teams and other services build against.
• Perform code reviews that raise the bar, both submitting your own work and giving constructive feedback that makes your teammates better.