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Role Description

The Senior Software Engineer role at Granicus is for developers who are looking for a fun, supportive, and fast-paced environment to grow their skills and contribute code to production systems. We are building a Platform Services team responsible for enabling cross-product integrations and simplifying third-party integrations across the organization. This role is:

• 70% hands-on backend engineering
• 30% cross-team integration enablement

All Granicus Software Engineers are expected to contribute to the broader Granicus technology organization in the deployment and support of these applications in higher environments.

What Your Impact Will Look Like

• Design and build modular, reusable platform services
• Develop integration layers across legacy and modern APIs
• Collaborate with product teams to understand data models and protocols
• Translate business requirements into scalable backend solutions
• Deliver features in sprint-based agile environment
• Ensure maintainability, observability, and reliability of services
• Maintain strong automated test coverage
• Adapting Compliance and Security best practices
• Adapting AI on day to day routine tasks and deliverables
• Interest in learning emerging technologies and programming languages
• UX / UI Web designing (React / Angular / Vue)
• Communicate and work effectively with others to create great high quality software
• Proactively improve our processes and the design and architecture of our products
• Drive innovation by coming up with new product ideas
• Perform technology and feasibility studies
• Help team members solve complex/urgent problems
• Mentor and provide technical training to team members
• Help train and onboard new hires
• Champion the development team’s core values

You Will Love This Job If You Have

• Experience of 7-12 years preferred
• Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and help drive system architecture decisions
• Ability to showcase accountability with proof of concepts and technology agnostic minded
• Adapting Security and Best coding practices along with Peer assists

Backend Engineering (Primary)

• Strong expertise in Node.js + TypeScript & Python
• Java (preferred but optional)
• Experience building microservices-based architectures
• RESTful APIs, event-driven systems, and integration patterns

Database & Data Modeling

• Strong RDBMS design experience: MySQL / PostgreSQL
• NoSQL experience (preferred but optional): MongoDB / DocumentDB
• Schema design, indexing strategies, migrations, multi-tenancy
• Query optimization and performance tuning

Engineering Fundamentals

• Strong Git proficiency
• Branching strategies
• Code reviews / pull request workflows
• Rebasing / conflict resolution
• Modular architecture principles
• DRY design patterns
• API contract versioning

Cloud Engineering Foundations (Non-primary but preferred)

• Docker
• Kubernetes basics
• CI/CD pipeline concepts
• Environment configuration and deployment flows
• Unit and integration testing best practices

Cross-Team & Communication Skills

• Comfortable working in sprint-based agile environments
• Ability to work closely with POs, PMs and EMs
• Understand legacy APIs and undocumented systems
• Design clean integration layers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-Have / Forward-Looking Skills

• Understanding of LLM fundamentals
• MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• LangChain
• Interest in learning emerging technologies and programming languages

Security and Privacy Requirements

• Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program
• Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies

The Team

• We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand

The Culture

• At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be a part of our journey
• A few culture highlights include – Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices
• Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work-life balance and current affairs
• Microsoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more
• We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee population

The Impact

We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place — quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world.