remote-job.net Job Summary: 💶 Salary: not specified ⏰ Weekly hours: Full-time 🔍 Recommended experience: Senior 🎓 Recommended education: not specified 🏭 Industry: SaaS 📋 Main responsibilities: Independently develop and deliver customer-facing features (End-to-End). Improve the platform's scalability, performance and reliability. Work closely with Product, Design and other engineers on architecture and code. ✅ Key requirements: At least 4 years of relevant development/engineering experience. Experience with JavaScript/React as well as a backend language (e.g., Go) and relational DBs (Postgres). Interest in AI/LLMs and product-focused work with an emphasis on user experience. About the company UpGuard replaces manual security bottlenecks with AI-driven precision. After a Series C financing round of 75 million USD, the company is scaling its infrastructure to process 100 billion risk signals per day. UpGuard builds a Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) platform that integrates security assessments, threat intelligence and agentic AI. The product team includes Product Management, Product Support, Engineering, Design, Data-Leak-Detection and Third-Party Risk Management services. The goal is to become the market leader in Cyber VRM and provide a best-in-class SaaS platform for managing third-party risk and the external attack surface. Responsibilities Collaborate in cross-functional teams with engineers, product managers and designers to develop best-in-class products. Independently develop new customer-focused features from conception to delivery. Improve system reliability, scalability and performance. Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and architecture decisions. Deepen expertise in cybersecurity and work with large-scale, data-intensive systems. Requirements At least 4 years of relevant professional experience in technology- and product-focused companies. Experience with JavaScript, React and web technologies as well as a backend language (UpGuard uses Go) and relational databases (e.g., Postgres). Interest in new technologies, especially AI/LLMs, to improve developer productivity and customer experience. Ability to make pragmatic trade-offs between technical quality and business requirements. Nice to have: Experience in cybersecurity, with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform. Nice to have: Experience building complex applications in cross-functional teams and a strong sense for user experience. Benefits Monthly "Lifestyle" allowance for financial, physical and mental well-being. Home office setup allowance within the first 3 months. 1,500 USD annual learning & development budget. Time off: regular PTO plus two additional UpGuardian days. 18 weeks paid parental leave regardless of parental role. Personal leave including sick and caregiving time. Fully remote work environment (offices in Sydney & Hobart available, but no attendance requirement). High-end hardware (top-spec laptops) for all team members. Subsidies/subscriptions for generative AI tools for daily work.
