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Salary: USD 100,000 - 195,000 / annual
Bankrate, a Red Ventures portfolio company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable systems that power Bankrate's digital experiences. You will operate with strong autonomy, bringing deep technical judgment to complex problems and shaping architecture and engineering standards across the organization.
In this role, you will design and implement scalable systems within a team or product area, contribute to the evolution of technical architecture and engineering patterns, and build and optimize continuous delivery pipelines to improve deployment speed and reliability. You'll partner with product and design peers to translate business objectives into actionable technical work, scope and estimate medium-to-large initiatives with minimal oversight, and collaborate across teams to resolve technical challenges and dependencies.
A key part of this role is mentoring engineers through code reviews, pair programming, design discussions, and collaborative problem-solving. You'll contribute to the definition and improvement of team-level engineering practices and technical standards, and evaluate tools, techniques, and technologies that could improve team and business outcomes.
Bankrate helps millions of Americans make smarter financial decisions by combining proprietary data, advanced technology, and deep market coverage. The company provides rate data to the Federal Reserve and serves as the benchmark relied upon by major publishers and policymakers nationwide. Bankrate's commitment to transparency, honest information, and real competition is central to its mission.
This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates with an East Coast preference. Hybrid candidates would work from the New York, NY or Charlotte area offices. You must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours.
**Requirements:**
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages with 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
- Consistent track record of delivering end-to-end solutions independently, from design through production
- Effective communicator who can influence decisions and translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Deep fluency in TypeScript across API services and full-stack web applications, including strong typing practices
- Strong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation
- Proven track record applying observability and APM tooling, performance monitoring, and CDN/edge delivery practices to improve system reliability and speed
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot) to raise team throughput while maintaining quality standards
