Here’s a summary of the role: As a Staff Ruby on Rails Engineer at Diligent, you will set technical direction for secure, scalable, and high-performing SaaS applications and services that power our governance platform. This role is ideal for you if you thrive on solving the hardest technical problems, shaping architecture across multiple teams, and driving how the organization builds software — including how we responsibly adopt AI into our engineering practices and products. You will own critical systems end-to-end, partner closely with Product, Security, DevOps, and other engineering leaders to shape technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers across the department. A key part of this role is helping define our AI strategy: embedding AI responsibly into our systems and workflows, advising on where AI tools and capabilities can meaningfully improve delivery, and raising the bar on how the team uses them safely and effectively. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff): Champion the design, delivery, and evolution of secure, scalable Ruby on Rails applications and services, driving architecture decisions across multiple teams and codebases, with responsibility for scalability, reliability, and the underlying infrastructure required to run them effectively. Set technical direction for major projects and platform initiatives, from solution design and prototyping through implementation and production ownership. Own and evolve the technical roadmap by identifying, shaping, and driving new technical initiatives and investments. Develop and evolve web applications and services with a strong focus on scalability, maintainability, reliability, and long-term platform health. Identify systemic pain points across services and propose pragmatic architectural improvements, including decomposition of monoliths and evolution toward service-oriented or microservices patterns where it adds valu
Staff/Principal Product Engineer (AI-Native Builder)
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Traditional engineering roles hand you a task and ask you to implement it. This one hands you a problem and a fleet of AI agents and asks you to ship the solution. The Product Engineer / Builder is a Staff/Principal level individual contributor role , for someone who takes a defined problem and owns the solution end to end. You understand the customer and the problem, then design, build, and ship working software, using AI agents as your primary means of turning direction into product. You combine deep engineering craft with genuine product instinct, and act as a force multiplier rather than a single pair of hands. How You’ll Work Given a problem to solve, you shape the approach and use AI to bring it to life by directing several AI agents in parallel and rigorously reviewing what they produce. An idea sketched in the morning can be a functional prototype by lunch and a workin
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