Software Engineer, Expansion

CV in; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Render is seeking an engineer to architect and deliver core platform capabilities that empower millions of developers, balancing the power of hyperscalers with the simplicity expected from a developer-first platform.

You will own end-to-end implementation, collaborate across teams, and shape on-call practices while building integrations with modern tooling. You will work with Go, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, and Temporal to power AI-native and full-stack applications.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of production software experience.
• Experience at a high-growth startup with broad scope and impact.
• Experience collaborating with product and design to align priorities.
• Comfort wearing multiple hats and working across the full stack.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver core platform features that reduce developer toil.
• Collaborate with design, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions.
• Evolve the codebase to handle increasing product complexity and scale.
• Participate in planning and roadmapping to align engineering efforts with business outcomes.
• Contribute to team culture, engineering practices, and operational standards as the organization grows.
• Own on-call responsibilities to ensure platform reliability and rapid incident response.
• Build integrations that connect Render with modern tooling for build and deploy processes.
• Analyze user needs to drive product-driven growth for enterprise audiences.

Skills

Experience shipping software

Startup experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Full-stack capability

Data-informed decisions

DevOps tooling familiarity

Community engagement with developers

Tools

Go

Typescript

React

Kubernetes

Postgres

Terraform

Temporal

Job description

You will architect and deliver the core platform capabilities that enable Render to serve millions of developers while maintaining a consistent and intuitive user experience. This role requires you to design systems that balance the power of hyperscalers with the simplicity expected from a developer-first platform. You will own the end-to-end implementation of features that directly impact how teams launch, scale, and manage AI-native and full-stack applications. Your work will ensure that Render remains a reliable and performant foundation for products ranging from MVPs to global-scale services. You will collaborate across teams to turn complex infrastructure challenges into simple, user-facing abstractions that require no infrastructure code. Ultimately, you will shape the future of the intelligent cloud by building the tools that empower developers to ship with confidence and scale without friction.

Key facts

Location: Remote (USA)

Engagement: Full-time

What you'll do

• Architect and implement new platform features that eliminate undifferentiated heavy lifting for developer teams.
• Collaborate with design, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to refine requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.
• Evaluate and evolve the Render codebase to accommodate increasing product complexity and scale.
• Participate actively in team planning, roadmapping, and goal-setting to align engineering efforts with business outcomes.
• Contribute to shaping team culture, engineering practices, and operational standards as the organization scales.
• Take ownership of on-call responsibilities to ensure platform reliability and rapid response to production incidents.
• Build integrations that connect Render with modern tooling for software build and deploy processes.
• Analyze user needs to drive product-driven growth strategies focused on modern enterprise audiences.
• Work with technologies that power the Render product, including Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, and Temporal.
• Explore emerging patterns in AI-native application development to ensure the platform remains at the forefront of innovation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience shipping software in production environments.
• Demonstrated success working at a small, high-growth startup where scope and impact were broad.
• Experience collaborating closely with product and design stakeholders to align on priorities.
• Comfort wearing multiple hats and working across the full stack independently and with others.
• Strong understanding of web frameworks, APIs, and databases across different layers of the stack.
• Proven ability to make pragmatic, data-informed decisions about tradeoffs in engineering work.
• Familiarity with modern tooling for software build and deploy processes is essential for scaling platform operations.
• Willingness to engage with the Render community and represent the company in discussions with developers and enterprise users.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with the technologies that power the Render product, such as Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, and Temporal.
• Track record of building and deploying systems that serve product-driven growth and modern enterprise audiences.
• Exposure to complex cloud infrastructure problems and the ability to translate them into simple developer experiences.
• Background in environments where high-velocity delivery and reliability are required simultaneously.
• Understanding of observability, autoscaling, and orchestration concepts as they apply to developer platforms.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or public-facing developer tools that improve the ecosystem.

Practical notes

This role is eligible for remote work within the United States. The position is full-time and requires participation in an interview process that values thoughtful discussion and timely feedback. Travel is not required for this role, and no visa sponsorship information is provided. The compensation details are not specified in the available source material.