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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Summary: As a Principal Software Engineer at Appian, you will be the primary technical strategist, responsible for shaping the architectural foundation of our platform. Your role involves anticipating future challenges and implementing innovative solutions today. You will drive complex cross-functional initiatives, ensuring Appian remains a leader in the low-code and automation industry. Responsibilities: Define the long-term architectural vision and governance for the Appian platform. Identify systemic technical risks and lead task forces to resolve architectural bottlenecks. Develop internal tools and SDKs to simplify infrastructure and enhance developer productivity. Conduct deep-dive troubleshooting for complex production issues. Promote AI-native engineering practices and integrate AI features into the platform. Lead the development of core platform libraries and high-risk prototypes. Participate in the Architectural Guild and review high-impact design documents. Mentor lead and senior engineers, and represent Appian in the tech community. Ensure operational resilience with self-healing and highly available systems. Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. 15+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in architecting large-scale distributed systems. Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns. Proven transformational leadership in technological migrations or strategies. Expertise in Java and Cloud-Native ecosyst

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com . As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do. Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive. The Developer Experience (DX) team at Amplitude builds and maintains the foundations that power how developers integrate, extend, and trust Amplitude across platforms. Our mission is to make Amplitude’s SDKs reliable, easy to adopt, and a joy to build on, so customers can confidently instrument their products and unlock insights at scale. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, iOS to play a key technical leadership role on our DevEx team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of Amplitude’s core iOS SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay , and serve as the iOS platform expert that other SDK teams, such as Statsig, Guides, and Surveys rely on. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll operate with a wide scope and high impact: setting technical direction for the iOS platform, driving cross-SDK architecture, improving performance and reliabilit

Staff Software Engineer - Testing & Automation Exceptional software engineering is challenging. Amplifying it to ensure that multiple teams can concurrently create and manage a vast, intricate product escalates the complexity. As a Staff Engineer within the Verification Platform team at Sumo Logic, you will drive the implementation and optimization for our verification platform as well as the modernization of our CI/CD pipelines. Your mission is to develop and sustain automated tooling for all testing, verification, and functional requirements, leveraging AI reasoning and machine learning models to predict and prevent delivery issues, while integrating advanced security validation and non-functional requirements into our delivery lifecycle. You will contribute significantly to establishing automated delivery pipelines, empowering autonomous teams to create independently deployable services, and progressing Sumo Logic’s internal Platform-as-a-Service. This role sits at the intersection of Platform Engineering, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, and Developer Productivity, helping teams deliver secure, reliable, and independently deployable services at scale. Responsibilities Strategy & Leadership: Drive technical direction and design for a modern Quality Engineering platform, driving the adoption of AI reasoning for enhanced automation of all testing, verification, and functional requirements. Pipeline Modernization: Lead the modernization of CI/CD pipelines to include automated security validation, compliance checks, and other critical non-functional requirements, with a focus on integrating AI/ML for intelligent pipeline optimization and risk prediction. Framework Ownership: Own the delivery pipeline and release automation framework for all Sumo services, ensuring improvements in developer productivity, deployment frequency, and release reliability. Cross-Team Collaboration: Educate and collaborate with teams during design and development phases to ensur

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. The Repayment UX Engineering team is growing, and we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in React Native development. We're a full-stack team located entirely in Europe within the same time zone, but culturally rooted in Silicon Valley. We directly improve the financial lives of over 20 million people. We build and own user journeys that enable them to pay back loans worth collectively over $40B each year. Our team exists to make these moments the most reliable and transparent in world-class consumer finance. Our work is agile and fast-paced, shipping new code to production every two-week sprint, and rigorously measuring the impact it has on the behavior of our users. This role rewards curiosity, ownership, and a builder's mindset. You'll know exactly what your objectives are, you'll have what you need to hit them, and you'll choose your own path to get there. You'll learn quickly from experienced teammates and grow your craft on problems that matter at scale. If you want to build something new and operate it at scale – come join us! What You'll Do · You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. · You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. · You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. · You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and m

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. The Repayment UX Engineering team is growing, and we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in React Native development. We're a full-stack team located entirely in Europe within the same time zone, but culturally rooted in Silicon Valley. We directly improve the financial lives of over 20 million people. We build and own user journeys that enable them to pay back loans worth collectively over $40B each year. Our team exists to make these moments the most reliable and transparent in world-class consumer finance. Our work is agile and fast-paced, shipping new code to production every two-week sprint, and rigorously measuring the impact it has on the behavior of our users. This role rewards curiosity, ownership, and a builder's mindset. You'll know exactly what your objectives are, you'll have what you need to hit them, and you'll choose your own path to get there. You'll learn quickly from experienced teammates and grow your craft on problems that matter at scale. If you want to build something new and operate it at scale – come join us! What You'll Do · You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. · You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. · You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. · You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and m

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. We are reinventing credit cards in the most transparent way possible. We are working directly with card issuers to change how credit is used throughout the world, creating new types of cards that work for both their everyday lives and large purchases with extremely straightforward, flexible terms. You'll work across stacks and across the company, working both in just-in-time transaction processing that has to take place in milliseconds, along with our ledgering and reconciliation systems in post-transaction processing. This is some of the more difficult, exciting, experimental engineering work in Affirm. Join us and our team in Spain and Poland to help us revolutionize payments! What You'll Do · You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. · You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. · You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. · You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts. · You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. · You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and

Strength in Trust OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society. The Challenge We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help lead technical direction across a major feature area or set of related systems at OneTrust. Staff Engineers determine their own approach on complex, often ambiguous assignments, and their technical judgment is trusted well beyond their immediate team. Your Mission Technical Leadership & Architecture Lead design and architecture for major features or components, ensuring alignment with the broader system architecture. Determine approach and methods independently on complex, ambiguous assignments without an established playbook. Cross-Team Collaboration Partner with other engineering teams, Product, and UX to shape solutions before implementation begins. Build working relationships and technical credibility beyond your immediate team. Quality & Standards Establish and champion engineering best practices adopted by your team and beyond. Mentorship Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow their technical judgmen

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Senior Software Engineer Grow your engineering career building software that matters by powering AI automation for the world’s largest enterprises. Location: Chennai, | Work Model: On-site (5 days/week) About the Team Appian Engineering spans the full depth of our platform: from the foundational layers that power enterprise scale, to the AI capabilities redefining what automation can do. We operate in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment focused on technical precision, continuous learning, and high code quality. By joining our team, you will solve real-world problems that directly shape how Appian delivers our AI-Powered Process Automation platform to enterprises around the world. The Opportunity As a Senior Software Engineer, you will take meaningful ownership of the software you build. You will bring deep technical expertise to a highly skilled team solving real problems at enterprise scale. As an experienced engineer, you’ll be equipped with cutting-edge AI tooling to design and deliver features of real sophistication, shape team-level engineering practices, and deepen your expertise while ensuring flawless Enterprise-Grade Orchestration . What You’ll Do Develop Clean Software: Architect, build, and optimize core platform features while maintaining a strong personal technical presence on the team. Engineer with AI: Use AI coding tools fluently as a force multiplier: generating, reviewing, and critically evaluating AI-assisted code to ship faster without compromising quality or correctness. Lead Architecture & Delivery: Drive technical sto

Location Details: Remote, India At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​ This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Join Our Team... This position is for a Staff Software Engineer within GoDaddy’s engineering organization, concentrating on developing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and promoting technical excellence across various teams and projects. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader at the division level. You will impact system design and architecture, as well as how engineering is carried out across teams. This position suits engineers who excel in uncertain environments, like tackling difficult technical problems, and can provide clarity, structure, and delivery for large projects. Our teams focus on greenfield and open-ended projects that require firm technical ownership, architectural vision, and collaboration across functions. You will assist in establishing engineering standards, support teams through mentoring, and create systems that boost reliability, scalability, and developer efficiency organization-wide. This role is important for encouraging innovation throughout the engineering organization. It includes promoting AI-assisted development workflows, modern cloud-native methods, and reusable platform features that speed up development across teams. What you'll get to do... Technical Execution & Delivery Lead delivery of complex engineering initiatives while driving predictable execution and long-term technical quality Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems using AWS, PostgreSQL/Aurora, and MongoDB Architect and lead greenfield projects from concept to production, bringin

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Job Description The Geometry Scalability team builds the systems that power both Avatars and Environments across Roblox. Our mission is to enable millions of developers to build large, high-fidelity worlds and multiplayer experiences that still run smoothly on phones and low-end devices. We’re the team that lets Roblox experiences evolve from simple platformers into massively multiplayer, open-world, AAA-quality games. This is a CEO-level priority: how Roblox “ages up” from kids’ games to experiences everyone wants to play, by making higher-fidelity avatars and environments performant at platform scale. You Will: Design and ship 3D engine systems for avatar and environment geometry, including mesh processing, level of detail, transcoding, streaming, runtime loading, and related performance systems. Partner closely with other teams (Rendering, Avatar, Studio) and external developers so that the features you build are directly usable to create amazing experiences. Profile and improve the performance of our game engine across a wide range of devices, with particular attention to mobile. Lead by example: drive projects end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and help set a high bar for technical qu

Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Prime team's mission is to build Bitstamp's prime brokerage for institutional clients — the platform that lets hedge funds, market makers, and professional trading firms fund, trade, borrow against, and settle positions at scale. We build the systems that move real institutional money: cross-venue settlement, credit against collateral, matched-book lending, and the bridge that brings tokenized securities to our order book. These are correctness-critical systems where a wrong answer can't be cheaply undone — getting them right is the whole job. As a Senior Software Engineer , you will own the design and end-to-end delivery of the systems at the core of that mission. You'll lead other engineers through problems of high ambiguity, set the technical bar for how we build for failure and not just the happy path, and be a go-to technical partner for the team, our stakeholders, and our counterparts across Robinhood. This role is based in our Slovenia office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week . At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intenti

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . Coinbase is building the future of regulated derivatives as part of the Institutional Everything Exchange, and Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM) is our CFTC-regulated Futures Commission Merchant - the entity that lets retail and institutional clients trade and clear US futures and options. As a Staff Software Engineer on the FCM team, you'll be a hands-on technical anchor across the entire FCM lifecycle: market data, order entry and routing, settlement and money movement, back office reporting, and our in-house risk and liquidation system. You'll help lead a major replatforming onto next-gen architecture and reduce legacy vendor dependencies, a rare chance to re-architect a regulated trading platform from the inside, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase. What you’ll do: Own design and architecture across the FCM core, from market data and order routing through settlement, reporting, and risk. Drive the next-gen replatforming and reduce legacy vendor dependencies while raising stability and reliability. Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most. Partner across pods (execution, risk, lifecycle) and cross-functionally with Product, CFM Risk and Ops, Finance, and Compliance to deliver correct, auditable systems and turn strategy into a roadmap. Mentor engineers acro

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Money Movement teams are crucial in helping Stripe build platforms and product experiences that enables businesses all over the world to move money. We are currently looking for someone who can drive the technical vision for how Stripe moves money at a global scale. This role spans the stack, from the core financial APIs that all of Stripe’s products are built on, like balances, transfers and payouts, to the financial integrations we rely on to move billions of dollars in countries around the world. The teams also run infrastructure that abstracts payment networks globally to expose capabilities for moving money with a variety of characteristics like speed, currency, and cost. We are responsible for ensuring that money gets to its destination quickly, reliably and in a cost effective manner. These systems are extremely central to our plans for the next 5-10 years and building them well will have an enormous impact on Stripe. What you'll do Help define and lead the technical roadmap for Money Movement. Ensure our infrastructure is safely extensible, scalable, reliable and meets SLAs for both external and internal users. Shape future proof interfaces that are easy to build against and meet the requirements of product teams. Help drive sound technical decision making within Money Movement and lead technical conversations with other teams across Payments Infrastructure and Stripe. Run, design, and code review for key components and ships in Mone

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Storage Abstractions (STAX) team builds the software layer through which Stripe services access stored data. We own the database SDKs that hundreds of Ruby and Java services use to read and write data safely, reliably, and efficiently without needing to understand the underlying database, routing, or operational complexity. Our work creates leverage across Stripe: by providing stable interfaces and safeguards at the storage layer, we help teams build products with confidence while enabling Stripe’s data architecture to evolve. Alongside engineers, we are designing for AI agents as customers of this foundation, making storage capabilities discoverable, interoperable, and safe to use across languages and storage backends. What you’ll do As a Staff Software Engineer on STAX, you will set technical direction and lead multi-year initiatives at the intersection of developer infrastructure, data access, and AI. You will work hands-on with engineers across Stripe to make storage access simpler, safer, and more interoperable, while helping product and infrastructure teams evolve their systems without fleet-wide migrations. You will help turn Stripe’s AI strategy into practical developer infrastructure by treating AI agents as customers of the storage layer. This is an opportunity to build frameworks and interfaces that make complex storage operations discoverable, interoperable, and safe for both human developers and agentic workflows, while rais

About Wolt At Wolt, we create technology that brings joy, simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world. In 2014 we started with delivery of restaurant food. Now we’re building the delivery of (almost) everything and you’ll find us in over 500 cities in 30 countries around the world. In 2022 we joined forces with DoorDash and together we keep on dreaming big and expanding across the globe. Working at Wolt isn’t always easy, but it’s definitely exciting. Here you’ll learn more, build more, and ship more than in most other companies. You’ll be challenged a lot, but also have a lot of fun on the way. So, if you’re a self-starter with drive and entrepreneurial spirit, this could be the ride of your life. What you’ll do: Build and maintain high-throughput backend services using Go . Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend developers to ship features that support internal support agents across the globe. Design systems that are scalable , resilient , and easy to maintain. Lead and contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making. Write well-tested code and help the team maintain high code quality standards. Our humble expectations: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and scaling complex systems. 2+ years of production experience in Golang , with the ability to mentor others and drive best practices across the team. Strong hands-on experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases — especially Cassandra. Solid understanding of designing and operating low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems . Nice to have Background in Node.js or other backend languages. Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and event-driven architectures. Previous on-call experience , with a pragmatic approach to reliability and incident management. What we value A product-oriented mindset — you think beyond the ticket, understand the “why” behind the work, and aim to create real