Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack, Experience

<strong>About Iru<br><br></strong>Iru is the AI-powered security & IT platform used by the world’s fastest-growing companies to secure their users, apps, and devices. Built for the AI era, Iru unifies identity & access, endpoint security & management, and compliance automation—collapsing the stack and giving IT & security time and control back.<br><br>Iru is backed by some of the smartest investors in tech—General Catalyst, Tiger Global, Felicis, Greycroft, and First Round Capital. In July 2024, Iru raised $100 million from General Catalyst, valuing the company at $850 million. Customers include Notion, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and Mercor, and Iru partners with industry leaders such as ServiceNow and AWS. Iru was named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers 2025 list for employee engagement and satisfaction.<br><br><strong>The Opportunity<br><br></strong>As a Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack) on Iru's Customer Experience team, you'll join a platform team responsible for the systems that power how customers are provisioned, billed, and managed across the company. You'll take on meaningful ownership of services that handle complex billing and tenant lifecycle workflows, including usage-based billing, with real depth in modeling, state, and cross-system coordination.<br><br>You'll spend most of your time in the backend building scalable, event-driven services, while also contributing to the front-end surfaces that internal and external stakeholders rely on to interact with these systems. This is a role for engineers who thrive with ambiguity, want to own technical direction, and can ship quickly with strong product and engineering judgment.<br><br><strong>Minimum Qualifications<br><br></strong><ul><li>5+ years of professional software engineering experience.</li><li>Proficiency in a backend programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or similar).</li><li>Hands-on experience building user interfaces with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.</li><li>Experience working in an event-driven distributed architecture with message brokers (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ).</li><li>Solid understanding of service-oriented architecture and microservices best practices.</li><li>Experience consuming and designing RESTful APIs and/or gRPC from both the client and server side.</li><li>Ability to identify problems/opportunities, break them down into critical parts, and design scalable solutions.</li><li>Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies.</li><li>Experience writing unit and integration tests across the stack.</li><li>Experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or ECS.</li><li>Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL.</li><li>Strong experience with peer code reviews, offering and receiving constructive feedback.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Preferred Qualifications<br><br></strong><ul><li>Familiarity with E2E testing systems (e.g., Playwright).</li><li>Experience with billing or payment platforms (e.g., Stripe).</li><li>Exposure to subscription, account provisioning, usage based billing, or customer lifecycle systems.</li><li>Experience with API gateways (e.g., Kong, AWS API Gateway).</li><li>Experience with observability tools and practices, including distributed tracing, logging, and monitoring.</li><li>Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Benefits & Perks<br><br></strong>Competitive salary<br><br>Hybrid work environment (3 days in office per week)<br><br>100% individual and dependent medical + dental + vision coverage<br><br>401(K) with a 4% company match<br><br>20 days PTO<br><br>Iru Wellness Week the first week in July<br><br>Equity for full-time employees<br><br>In-office lunch stipend provided<br><br>Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents<br><br>Paid Family and Medical Leave<br><br>Modern Health mental health benefits for individuals and dependents<br><br>Fertility benefits<br><br>Working Advantage employee discounts<br><br>Onsite fitness center<br><br>Free parking<br><br>Exciting opportunities for career growth<br><br>We are excited to be serving a significant need for a fast-growing market, and are proud of the high-performing team we have brought together so far. If you’re someone who wants to engage in new, exciting projects that will challenge your skills in the best way possible, we would love to connect with you.<br><br>At Iru, we believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences.<br><br>Iru is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, protected veteran or military status or any other status protected by applicable law.<br><br>We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.<br><br>

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