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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Rhume LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $170,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Data Security, Cursor, Node.Js, NoSQL, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Backend, Bug Reporting, Codebase, Front End Software Development, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** September 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0de60bc70e48fe57

## About the Role

Must-Haves

 * 7+ years building and shipping production software, with significant time as a senior or lead engineer at an early-stage or small company
 * Deep expertise in TypeScript / Node.js across the full stack
 * Hands-on experience with cloud and serverless architectures - GCP ideal, but AWS or equivalent translates well
 * Experience designing data models and working with NoSQL databases
 * A track record of owning systems end-to-end - you've been the person responsible for a production codebase, not one contributor among many
 * Experience building third-party integrations and APIs
 * Sound, independent judgment on architecture and on the tradeoff between quality and speed
 * Experience leveraging AI tools (Claude Code/Cursor/Codex) to accelerate the software development process

Nice-to-Haves

 * Experience building AI/LLM-powered product features
 * Background in workforce, edtech, govtech, or other compliance-heavy B2B domains

Behavioral Traits

 * Extreme ownership: You treat the whole system as yours and don't wait for permission to fix what's broken
 * Comfortable with ambiguity: You make good decisions with incomplete information and figure things out as you go
 * Pragmatic builder: You ship, you balance polish with momentum, and you know when to invest in foundations vs. move fast
 * Product- and customer-minded: You care about outcomes for users and the business, not just elegant code
 * Direct and low-ego: You communicate clearly, give and take honest feedback, and value substance over ceremony
 * Energized by being early: You're excited get in on the ground floor and help build the team and culture

## Description

Own the Codebase & Ship Product

 * Take end-to-end ownership of our entire stack, including frontend, backend, CI/CD, QA, infrastructure and integrations
 * Ship customer-facing features from spec to production, balancing speed with the reliability our customers run their programs on
 * Drive continuous improvement and quality, triaging and resolving incoming bug reports, improving site speed and responsiveness, and steadily raising the quality bar across the product
 * Build new product surfaces, from field-friendly data capture to AI-driven program intelligence
 * Partner directly with the CEO and customers to translate compliance and workforce needs into working software

Set Technical Direction

 * Make architectural decisions in collaboration with our CEO that shape the next phase of the product - what to build, what to refactor, what to buy
 * Establish the engineering practices, standards, and tooling that a growing team will build on
 * Own build-vs-buy and tech-debt tradeoffs - keep the system simple enough to move fast and solid enough to scale
 * Be the technical voice in product, customer onboarding and roadmapping

Reliability, Security & Performance

 * Own production reliability, monitoring, and incident response
 * Maintain and advance our security and compliance posture, including SOC 2
 * Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks across serverless functions and data access
 * Keep the platform our customers depend on just working - you're the person ultimately responsible for that