Senior Software Engineer (Bankrate)

• Purpose of the role: Design and deliver scalable, maintainable, and secure software systems that power Bankrate’s digital products
• Senior Engineers operate with strong autonomy, combining technical expertise with leadership through influence
• They contribute to architecture, mentor teammates, and ensure that software solutions are efficient, reliable, and aligned with business goals
• Impact on the business: Senior Engineers elevate technical quality and team performance
• They connect engineering work to customer and business value, improving product scalability and stability
• By modeling sound judgment, collaboration, and curiosity, they help teams deliver impactful solutions faster and with greater confidence
• 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

Benefits

• Hybrid Schedule & Flexible PTO: Take advantage of 3-4 days in-office per week and 1-2 WFH days per week (varying by team), and a robust Paid Time Off program that includes logging off for “Winter Week.”
• Family Support, Planning, and Fertility: Our benefit offerings support every unique path to parenthood including fertility, egg freezing, adoption, surrogacy, parental bonding, and more.
• Mentorship Culture: Find a mentor, be a mentor, say yes to something new. This is a place where you’re guaranteed to build connections that extend past your immediate team and even your tenure at RV.
• Purpose & Community: We empower employees to make an impact for causes they care about, and we invest heavily in systemic impact through nonprofits like Road to Hire.
• World-Class Wellness: In addition to the on-site amenities at HQ, our unique wellness benefits include free therapy sessions and counseling for U.S. employees and family members.

• Consistently delivers end-to-end solutions independently, from design through production
• Strong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and ability to apply them effectively within team scope
• 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
• Contributes to improving code quality, design consistency, and operational reliability across the team
• Effective communicator, able to influence decisions and share complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Evaluates and adopts AI tooling thoughtfully within their domain, helping shape team-level norms for where it adds the most value
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and deep expertise in at least one technology domain
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-based services
• Proven ability to make informed tradeoffs balancing cost, scalability, security, and maintainability
• Models accountability, technical rigor, and collaborative problem-solving
• Applies observability/APM, performance monitoring, and CDN/edge delivery practices to improve reliability and speed