Senior Software Developer, Web Application

About Spokeo

Spokeo is a people intelligence platform that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends, reunite with families, and build trust in new relationships. Thousands of companies also trust Spokeo’s 60 billion public records to improve customer research, help verify information, and prevent fraud.

Founded in 2006, Spokeo has built a dedicated, remote-first team with an average tenure of 6.9 years. It has earned recognition from Comparably as a Best Company for Compensation, Employee Happiness, Perks and Benefits, Support for Women, Work-Life Balance, and CEO Leadership.

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 that is software development-focused: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.

• 7+ years of experience developing full-stack, web applications.

• 5+ years designing and working with both SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and system design.

• Experience building, scaling, and troubleshooting high-traffic, high-throughput systems.

• Experience developing applications on AWS and working with search technologies such as ElasticSearch.

• Experience improving application performance, discoverability, and SEO.

• Prefer: Experience designing and operating service-oriented, microservices, or serverless architectures.

• Prefer: Experience implementing AI/LLM-powered applications, agents, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations.

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: https://www.spokeo.com/recruiting-policy

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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