[Remote] Senior Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harbor Compliance is a leading technology platform for entity compliance, helping businesses and nonprofits manage various legal requirements. The Senior Software Engineer will serve as a technical anchor within the development team, focusing on delivering complex product features and driving platform modernization initiatives in a full-stack PHP and Vue.js environment.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• Strategic analysis of technical trends to identify future architectural opportunities and align engineering workflows with long-term product vision
• Experience defining cloud architecture strategy and infrastructure standards across AWS, GCP, or Azure environments
• Strong capabilities in organization and planning, with a focus on prioritizing high-impact technical initiatives and managing delivery timelines efficiently
• Excellent change leadership skills, with a proven ability to champion new methodologies, tools, and engineering best practices across a development organization

Benefits

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

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