Senior Software Engineer, Growth & Web Experience

• Marketing & Content Infrastructure: Spearhead the development of our high-traffic marketing sites, ensuring these platforms are not just visually stunning but technically optimized for rapid content publishing.
• SEO & Web Performance: Implement advanced SEO strategies (SSR/SSG, JSON-LD schema, automated sitemaps, llms.txt) to maintain our dominance in global risk search rankings. Own Core Web Vitals to ensure lightning-fast load times.
• Login Walls & Gated Content: Maintain the sophisticated walls between our free and premium content, integrating with our Auth provider and subscription management tools to create frictionless transitions from guest to subscriber.
• Marketing Technology Stack: Manage integrations with our growth stack, including HubSpot for lead capture, Google Tag Manager for event tracking, and other technologies.
• Visual Excellence: Work closely with our Design and Brand teams to build and maintain a scalable design system that ensures brand consistency across marketing pages, login portals, and product interfaces.
• Full Stack Capability: While frontend-heavy, jump into our Python/Java backend services to work with APIs that feed content to the marketing site or handle user authentication logic., You'll be working across a modern, well-defined stack: React, Next.js, and TypeScript on the frontend with Tailwind for styling; Python and Java on the backend via REST and GraphQL APIs; Auth0 for authentication; AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes for infrastructure; and HubSpot, Google Analytics 4, and GTM on the marketing side.

As an engineer on the Growth team, you are the bridge between our research and the global marketplace. While our product teams build the "Core," you build the engine that makes us discoverable, accessible, and convertible - ensuring that when a global trade leader searches for solutions, they find Kharon first, and that their experience from the first click to the final login is seamless, secure, and performant.

Do you have experience in SaaS?, * 6+ years in software engineering with a proven track record of building high-performance marketing sites or content-heavy SaaS platforms.

• Deep expertise in React and Next.js, with a clear understanding of the nuances of Static Site Generation (SSG) vs. Server-Side Rendering (SSR) for SEO.
• Technical SEO mastery from the ground up - crawl budgets, canonicalization, and structuring data for rich snippets.
• Experience implementing OAuth/OIDC flows and managing user sessions behind login walls (Auth0, FusionAuth, or similar).
• Proficiency with Headless CMS platforms (e.g., Contentful, Sanity) and marketing automation integrations (HubSpot, Segment).
• A pixel-perfect design sensibility - comfortable in Figma and capable of translating complex data visualizations into clean, responsive web components.
• Strong communicator who can collaborate across teams, explaining technical trade-offs to marketing stakeholders while holding your own in architectural reviews with core platform engineers.

Nice to Haves:

• Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks (Optimizely, VWO).
• A background in Fintech, RegTech, or data-driven SaaS.
• Experience with GraphQL for fetching content from multiple sources.
• Some experience with LLM-based coding tools like Cursor, Claude, etc.

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Disability insurance, To keep that momentum going, we do our very best to make sure that each and every team member is completely taken care of. We're nothing without our people and we strive to offer a package that reflects that. As a Kharon team member, you can expect:
• Fully sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurances
• FSA program for both medical and dependent care
• Long term disability
• 401k + Roth with matching and immediate vesting
• Flexible paid time off + 11 paid holidays

The base salary range at Kharon is set between $160,000 to $200,000. Please note that this figure does not necessarily include potential bonuses, commissions, benefits, or equity that may be part of the overall compensation package.

TL;DR Kharon is seeking a full-time Senior Software Engineer based in Denver. This role requires in-office attendance at least 3 days a week., Kharon is a highly disruptive and incredibly innovative organization that navigates risk at the intersection of global security threats + international commerce. What does that mean? Great question. Operating at the nexus of global security, Kharon is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take really complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible. From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications, our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of today's leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled. When you look at any major global crisis event, we're providing intelligence that's at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way that's meaningful. Now, we're experiencing unprecedented growth. As the world continues to evolve in complexity, so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks. To the right person, this will be the perfect kind of challenge. Our mission is compelling, our product is powerful, and we're growing at a rate that makes us unstoppable. If you're looking to be surrounded by people who will inspire you to think and challenge you to grow then look no further. Our team is made up of some of the most visionary and uncompromising individuals you will ever encounter. We don't take ourselves seriously but we're serious about the work we do and there is absolutely no slowing us down.