Senior Software Engineer
DataSite - New York City, NY
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Job Summary: Datasite is a global leader in facilitating economic value creation for companies through innovative technologies. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will lead the design and delivery of complex features, mentor team members, and ensure technical decisions align with product and business goals. Responsibilities: • Technical decision-making is led with attention to both immediate customer impact and long-term business needs. • Roadmaps are developed in collaboration with product, the team, and leadership to guide future direction. • Architectural improvements are defined to reduce operational overhead and strengthen scalability and reliability. • Cross-team improvements are identified and advocated for, optimizing workflows and enhancing tools with broad organizational impact. • Collaboration is fostered through active feedback, shared learning, and a commitment to technical excellence. • Communication is clear and engaging, introducing challenging ideas thoughtfully and translating complex concepts into accessible insights. • Trade-offs between business priorities, technical constraints, and customer needs are carefully balanced to make data-driven decisions. • Systems are simplified where possible, reducing technical debt and improving long-term maintainability and scalability. • Mentorship is offered through coaching, feedback, and participation in technical hiring, ensuring culture and mission are well represented. • Continuous feedback is sought and shared, supporting both personal development and the growth of the team. • End-to-end system design and execution for high-impact features or systems is owned with an emphasis on quality and reliability. • Monitoring, logging, and failure-domain strategies are built in to ensure resilience and performance. • Project progress is tracked, risks are assessed, and plans are adapted while maintaining a long-term perspective. Qualifications: Required: • Backend engineer with a preference toward Java/Kotlin • Deep expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale systems, focusing on clean, scalable, and performant code. • Proven SME in modern programming paradigms and languages, with rapid adaptability to new ones. • Strong mastery of testing practices like unit, integration, end-to-end, and high code quality standards. • Expertise in current dev tools: version control, CI/CD, IaC, containers, cloud architectures. Eager to adopt best-fit solutions. • Passion for tracking industry trends, evaluating new tech, and driving sustainable adoptions aligned with business goals. • Openness to incorporating AI into the dev workflow Preferred: • Bonus for Marketplace or Apps development • Bonus for exposure to Kong or similar • Bonus for Full Stack capabilities Company: Datasite is a global SaaS provider of AI-powered workflow collaboration and automation solutions for M&A, investment and strategic projects. Founded in 1968, the company is headquartered in Minneapolis, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.
Created: 2026-03-05