Senior Software Developer, Web Application

About Spokeo

Join our mission to make the world more transparent with data.

Spokeo is a people search engine that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends, reunite with families, and protect against fraud. Additionally, our 12 billion records and over 250 million unique profiles enable business professionals to locate people and assets, research subjects in criminal investigations, and more.

Founded in 2006, we have grown to a company of nearly 200 dedicated employees, with flexible work locations and an average tenure of 5.3 years. Find out why we were named a “Best Company” by Comparably for Women, Compensation, Happiest Employees, Company Perks & Benefits, and Work-Life Balance, as well as “Best CEO” for co-founder Harrison Tang.

About this Opportunity

As a Senior Software Developer, Web Application, you will join a cross-functional scrum team that values achieving goals as well as continuous product and team improvements. You will use Ruby on Rails, Node, React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL to build engaging user experiences backed by scalable, high-performance code. 

What you’ll do:

• Design and develop robust full-stack solutions

• Work in a cross-functional scrum team to achieve regular sprint goals

• Mentor and review the code of more junior team members

• Embrace software development best practices such as TDD, documentation, design patterns, secure coding, and algorithmic optimization

What you’ve done:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• 7+ years of web application development experience

• 2+ years using SQL and NoSQL technologies

• Strong foundation in object-oriented programming, algorithms, and data structures

• Experience implementing and troubleshooting high-usage, high-throughput systems

• Experience optimizing website performance on both the client and server-side

• Ideal candidates will have experience developing with cloud services such as AWS

• Experience with services, microservices, and serverless environments is highly desirable

• Familiarity with Agile methodology and the Scrum framework is beneficial

• Bonus points for AI/LLM/MCP implementation experience

Working at Spokeo

Spokeo offers a bonus program, equity plans, and a 401(k). Once a year, we do a discretionary, merit-based salary increase. Additional benefits include 100% medical/dental/vision coverage and unlimited employee PTO.

Spokeo extends written offers to candidates who successfully complete their selection process. Spokeo’s offers include a base salary, participation in a company bonus program, stock options, and comprehensive benefits. A final offer will depend on several factors, including but not limited to marketplace competition, job leveling, and the candidate’s experience and skills.

Privacy Notice for Candidates:

Spokeo is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Spokeo fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best products, and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Recruiters or staffing agencies: Spokeo is not obligated to compensate any external recruiter or search firm that presents a candidate or their resume or profile to a Spokeo employee without 1) a current, fully executed agreement on file, and 2) being assigned to the open position (as a search) via our applicant tracking solution.

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