What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Delivery position at Recruiting From Scratch?
Location: United States (Remote, with quarterly onsite sessions in San Mateo, Columbus, or Austin)
Office Type: Digital-First (Remote with Quarterly Onsites)
Salary: $163,600 – $226,400 Bonus Equity
Company Description
The company operates as a digital-first organization across the United States, with optional office hubs in California, Ohio, and Texas. Most employees join because they are passionate about the mission: enabling effortless credit access based on true risk rather than outdated metrics.
What You Will Do
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Delivery platform team, you will:
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Build, architect, and scale internal developer tools that power CI/CD, deployment workflows, testing environments, staging orchestration, and release automation.
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Identify friction in the create/build/test/deploy pipeline and design solutions that materially improve engineering velocity.
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Partner directly with product engineering teams to understand their workflows and ensure platform tools optimize quality, reliability, and speed.
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Collect and analyze data around system performance and developer usage to guide prioritization and feature development.
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Engineer safe, reliable deployment and rollback systems, including canary releases, automated health checks, and progressive delivery workflows.
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Design well-observed, highly available platform services with strong logging, alerting, monitoring, and operational excellence.
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Treat the platform like a product—engaging customers (internal teams), gathering insights, defining requirements, and iterating quickly.
Ideal Background
Minimum Requirements
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5 years of experience working with at least two modern languages/frameworks (Ruby, Kotlin, Python, TypeScript, Spring, React, or similar).
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3 years of experience scripting and supporting multiple AWS services (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, Lambda, API Gateway).
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3 years of experience designing and maintaining CI/CD applications, including advanced deployment patterns (canary, automated rollbacks, post-deploy checks).
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3 years of experience building observability systems—alerting, dashboards, logging—via Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch, etc.
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Hands-on Kubernetes experience.
Preferred Qualifications
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Full-stack software engineering experience.
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Background building or maintaining high-volume, highly reliable CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS CDK, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes).
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Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting experience (Bash).
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Ability to design CI/CD pipelines with automated test coverage.
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Experience with platform tooling (ArgoCD, Backstage, Artifactory, etc.)
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Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across a fully remote team.
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Comfort working in ambiguous environments with high ownership.
Compensation and Benefits
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Base Salary: $163,600 – $226,400
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Bonus: Included
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Equity: Included
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Comprehensive medical, dental & vision (HSA contributions included)
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401(k) with 100% company match up to $4,500 (immediate vesting)
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Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
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Generous holiday, vacation, sick leave, and safety leave policies
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Parental, family care, and military leave
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Annual wellness, tech, and ergonomic stipends
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Quarterly in-person offsites (travel fully covered)
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Social events, ERGs, and team-building activities
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Office perks (when onsite): catered lunches, snacks, drinks
Salary Range: $142,000-$196,000 base. https://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/
Salary : $142,000 - $196,000