[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Harbor Compliance

Role Description

The Senior Software Engineer serves as a core technical anchor within the development team, driving the delivery of high-complexity product features and executing critical platform modernization initiatives across a full-stack PHP and Vue.js ecosystem. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role models engineering excellence by:

• Writing clean, resilient code
• Pioneering AI-driven development workflows
• Establishing a highly predictable delivery cadence

As a technical role model and mentor to mid-level and junior engineers, the Senior Software Engineer ensures the team consistently meets its commitments while systematically upgrading the long-term health of the codebase. The value delivered directly impacts platform stability, technical innovation, and team velocity, advancing the organization's mission through robust technical execution.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering and architecture, with deep expertise in PHP, object-oriented programming, design patterns, and modern framework adoption.
• Strong front-end engineering capabilities utilizing Vue.js, Angular, or React to drive user interface architecture decisions.
• Proven track record designing RESTful APIs, establishing integration standards, and building reusable service patterns.
• Advanced database engineering experience with MySQL, including advanced SQL optimization and data governance strategies for performance and scalability.
• Deep understanding of DevOps and quality engineering, including setting organization-wide unit and integration testing frameworks and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated mastery of AI-enhanced development tools like GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, or CodeWhisperer to optimize personal coding cycle times by 20 to 30 percent.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing technical talent, providing actionable feedback to level up mid-level and junior engineers.
• Exceptional ownership and accountability, with the ability to self-direct high-priority projects and translate broad organizational goals into precise technical execution.

Requirements

• Architect and implement high-priority, complex full-stack product features from end to end, ensuring they are built for long-term scalability.
• Execute the modernization roadmap by safely rewriting and decoupling legacy monolithic code components into modern architectural patterns while maintaining seamless production stability.
• Lead the adoption and mastery of AI-assisted engineering tools, such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code, to accelerate personal coding velocity and establish automated development workflows.
• Secure excellent codebase quality, reliability, and security ratings by ensuring all authored code seamlessly passes defined quality gates with zero deferred technical debt.
• Provide rigorous, constructive, and timely code reviews, targeting a four-hour pick-up time and a two-hour completion time during standard business hours.
• Drive team sprint predictability by providing accurate technical scoping and estimation to support a team sprint completion rate of 80 percent or greater and a rollover rate below 20 percent.
• Conduct advanced troubleshooting to optimize platform performance and diagnose complex system behaviors, contributing to an overall team uptime goal of 99.98 percent.
• Facilitate twelve technical knowledge sharing or training sessions annually for the technology team, focusing on advanced refactoring strategies, AI prompt engineering, and modern full-stack PHP and Vue.js patterns.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Flexible paid time off
• Parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k)
• Educational reimbursement