{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bb17d2838be511bb3d129c20","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bb17d2838be511bb3d129c20","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bb17d2838be511bb3d129c20","title":"Senior Software Engineer (L5)","description":"Who We Are:\n\nExiger transforms supply chains into a strategic advantage, advancing our mission to make the world a safer and more transparent place to succeed. Our AI platform, 1Exiger, delivers instant visibility into complex supplier ecosystems, leveraging proprietary data and advanced AI to surface risk, automate compliance, and unlock efficiencies and cost savings to strengthen long-term resilience. Trusted by 550+ global customers, including Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, Exiger is a recognized, award-winning leader in supply chain AI and a FedRAMP® authorized provider to the federal government.\n\nAbout us:\n\nExiger makes the world a safer place to do business. Positioned at the bleeding edge of critical national security and commercial innovation, we offer AI-enabled supply chain risk management technology that empowers our Defense Industrial Base, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, and Commercial customers to build more transparent, resilient, and secure global supply chains while illuminating human rights abuses such as forced labor, human trafficking, and child labor.\n\nAbout the role:\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Engineer to lead our DDIQ team, the group responsible for our core risk signals processing engine — the cornerstone of our platform. By combining data on global companies with signals from worldwide events, our team builds systems that transform massive volumes of raw data into actionable risk insights. These insights help our customers identify and mitigate potential risks in their suppliers and partners, driving smarter and safer business decisions.\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you'll drive the technical direction of our products, build reliable, scalable web applications and services that power our SaaS platform, operate and maintain the system, and mentor other engineers on the team. You will play a key role in engineering the scalability, reliability, quality, performance, and maintainability of our systems.\n\nLOCATION: Mclean, VA / New York, NY / Richmond, VA\n\nSTATUS: Hybrid (2 days per week)\n\nWhat you'll do:\n\nOwn the technical vision and architecture for DDIQ end-to-end, establishing a clear architectural direction that supports the product's current needs and long-term growth\nServe as the most senior technical authority on the team, providing leadership across backend, frontend, data, infrastructure, and system design\nEffectively manage AI agents to drive delivery across all stages of the SDLC, including design, development, testing, CI/CD, operations at speed and scale\nDeliver features across multiple services and systems, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-quality releases\nOversee architecture and design decisions, helping the team make tradeoffs between performance, scalability, and time-to-market\nEnsure reliability and observability across our microservices ecosystem, including production monitoring, alerting, and recovery\nEnsure operational excellence, managing the CI/CD lifecycle, testing, deployments, and cost optimizations\n\nWhat you bring to the team:\n\nUnyielding sense of ownership and accountability – you care about your work and it shows\n6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with significant experience designing, building, and operating complex backend systems or data-intensive applications\nDemonstrated experience as a technical lead or senior engineer responsible for the architecture, technical direction, and health of a scaled enterprise application with mission-critical customer impact\nStrong system design instincts and the ability to reason across application, data, infrastructure, reliability, and operational concerns\nDeep understanding of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and IAC\nExperience with mission-critical, API-first SaaS systems, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural vision\nPassion for data, analytics, and using technology to uncover meaningful insights\nExperience working at a rapidly-evolving, PE-backed, growth startup\nBonus points for experience operating in an air-gapped FedRAMP or DoD I/L environment\n\nOur tech stack:\n\nCore Platform: Java / Spring Boot\nData: MySQL\nFrontend: TypeScript / Angular\nMessaging: ActiveMQ, Kafka, Redis\nInfrastructure: Kubernetes via Helm and Argo CD; AWS via Terraform\nObservability: ELK, Grafana\n\n#LI-Hybrid\n\nExiger is named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management, twice selected as one of Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter,' and recipient of the Third Party Risk Association's Innovator Award, Exiger's technology has been recognized by leading analyst evaluations and 50+ awards. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn.\n\nAt Exiger, our values define how we work and why we lead. We are mission-inspired, imagination-driven, trust-anchored, and compassion-focused—committed to building technology that makes the world safer, more transparent, and more resilient.\n\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.\n\nExiger's hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.","company":"Exiger","rawCompany":"exiger","city":"McLean","state":"VA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-22T10:55:16.763Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Software Engineer (L5)","description":"Who We Are:\n\nExiger transforms supply chains into a strategic advantage, advancing our mission to make the world a safer and more transparent place to succeed. 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