Senior Software Engineer

🏆 Great Place to Work® Certified | USA

Harbor Compliance is a leading technology platform for entity compliance, helping more than 80,000 businesses and nonprofits manage licensing, tax registration, and legal entity requirements nationwide. Founded in 2012 and recognized repeatedly by the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500, we've grown through five strategic acquisitions — and are now backed by a 2026 majority growth investment from Bregal Sagemount to accelerate product, AI, and customer experience. We're a passionate team making compliance simpler and smarter for every organization we serve.

The Senior Software Engineer serves as a core technical anchor within the development team, driving the delivery of high-complexity product features and executing critical platform modernization initiatives across a full-stack PHP and Vue.js ecosystem. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role models engineering excellence by writing clean, resilient code, pioneering AI-driven development workflows, and establishing a highly predictable delivery cadence. As a technical role model and mentor to mid-level and junior engineers, the Senior Software Engineer ensures the team consistently meets its commitments while systematically upgrading the long-term health of the codebase. The value delivered directly impacts platform stability, technical innovation, and team velocity, advancing the organization's mission through robust technical execution.

Key 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.

Requirements:

• 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.

Skills and Knowledge:

• 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.

Accommodations:

Harbor Compliance is committed to providing any reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

Compensation: 

Compensation at the time of offer is based on factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of Harbor Compliance’s total compensation package. Other benefits may include health benefits, flexible paid time off, parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k), and educational reimbursement. Note that the salary range and benefits apply only to U.S.-based candidates.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement
Harbor Compliance will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by Harbor Compliance, or (c) consistent with Harbor Compliance’s legal duty to furnish information.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Harbor Compliance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Notice Regarding the Use of Selection Technology

Harbor Compliance uses third-party automated tools and skills assessments (such as Testlify and Rippling) to help evaluate job applications and streamline our hiring workflow. These tools assist our recruitment team in reviewing qualification trends and scheduling, but all final employment decisions are made solely by humans on our Talent Success team, and all tools are subject to human oversight.

Depending on your location, local laws may grant you specific disclosure rights or the option to request an alternative evaluation process. If you require a reasonable accommodation or wish to opt out of automated assessment steps due to regional regulations, please notify your recruiter. Opting out will not negatively impact your application.