[Remote] Senior Software Engineer | Bankrate

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bankrate is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver scalable, maintainable, and secure software systems powering its digital products. The role contributes to architecture, improves delivery and reliability, partners with product and design teams, and mentors engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable systems within a team or product area
• Contribute to the evolution of technical architecture and engineering patterns in alignment with organizational standards
• Build and optimize continuous delivery pipelines, improving deployment speed and reliability
• Partner with product and design peers to translate business objectives into actionable technical work
• Scope, estimate, and deliver medium-to-large initiatives with minimal oversight
• Collaborate across teams to resolve technical challenges, dependencies, and integration issues
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, design discussions, and collaborative problem-solving
• Contribute to the definition and improvement of team-level engineering practices and technical standards
• Demonstrate curiosity and continuous learning — evaluating tools, techniques, and technologies that could improve team and business outcomes

Skills

• This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on H1-B, F-1, OPT, STEM-OPT, or TN visa
• Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and deep expertise in at least one technology domain
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and ability to apply them effectively within team scope
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-based services
• Proven ability to make informed tradeoffs balancing cost, scalability, security, and maintainability
• Effective communicator, able to influence decisions and share complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Consistently delivers end-to-end solutions independently, from design through production
• Contributes to improving code quality, design consistency, and operational reliability across the team
• Models accountability, technical rigor, and collaborative problem-solving
• Naturally curious and growth-minded - stays current with industry trends and applies relevant insights to the team's work
• Deep fluency in our primarily TypeScript-based stack across API services and full-stack web applications
• Strong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation
• Applies observability/APM, performance monitoring, and CDN/edge delivery practices to improve reliability and speed
• Evaluates and adopts AI tooling thoughtfully within their domain, helping shape team-level norms for where it adds the most value

Benefits

• The role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East Coast preference), with hybrid being central to the New York, NY or Charlotte area offices.
• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision), subject to eligibility requirements.
• Life Insurance, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Flexible Spending Accounts, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Holiday Pay, subject to eligibility requirements.
• 401(k) with match, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Employee Assistance Program, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

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