Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform – Remote

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 195,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical benefits

401(k)

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Platform organization. You will help build shared foundations powering product development, including customer-facing components and internal libraries, with teams aligned to foundational challenges across the company.

The role emphasizes a platform mindset, API design, and scalable architecture, with responsibility to ensure security and performance while collaborating with product and design.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or fullstack software engineering experience, with a focus on platform, shared infrastructure, or developer-facing systems.
• Experience building shared APIs, services, or platform components used by multiple engineering teams - a platform mindset is critical.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or message queue systems (Kafka, SQS, pub/sub).
• Excellent communication skills - able to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design stakeholders, and to clearly articulate technical trade-offs.
• Track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code with sound judgment on architectural decisions.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries used by multiple engineering teams.
• Partner with product engineering teams to translate needs into clean APIs and services.
• Drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries for platform scalability and developer experience.
• Define and uphold engineering standards for shared components across systems.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical planning to raise engineering quality.
• Write and maintain thorough documentation for systems and libraries for organization-wide use.
• Contribute to building the company's engineering culture as we scale.

Skills

Backend

Fullstack

Platform mindset

APIs

Developer experience

Tools

Kafka

SQS

pub/sub

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Platform organization. You will help build shared foundations powering product development, including customer-facing components and internal libraries, with teams aligned to foundational challenges across the company.

The role emphasizes a platform mindset, API design, and scalable architecture, with responsibility to ensure security and performance while collaborating with product and design.