Senior Full Stack Engineer

Virtru•Washington, DC

8d•$150,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Virtru is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join their engineering team. This role is crucial for building and maintaining Virtru's digital privacy products, which are used by over 6,000 organizations to protect sensitive data. The engineer will be responsible for owning complex problems end-to-end, from coding to ensuring platform reliability at scale. The work directly contributes to protecting user data and advancing privacy as a default. The company's mission is to set data free for intentional sharing without compromising security, privacy, or control. Virtru has developed data protection applications and an open platform based on the Trusted Data Format (TDF) open standard, aiming to create a new paradigm where security enables sharing. Virtru is backed by prominent investors and works with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of professional experience developing with JavaScript, including Node.js and/or frameworks/toolchains such as React
Proficiency utilizing Go (Golang) for building efficient, scalable backend services and APIs
Proven experience deploying and operating a highly available, scalable Enterprise SaaS application in a DevOps environment
Strong, demonstrable understanding of software design patterns
Experience building and deploying applications using AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure
Experience using Docker to accelerate all aspects of the development lifecycle (dev, test, deployment)
Experience with Agentic AI workflows and tooling

Nice To Haves

Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence
Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset
Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve
Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc.

Responsibilities

Write and ship elegant, production-quality JavaScript across both the front and backend of Virtru's digital privacy products using frameworks and toolchains such as React
Develop and contribute to backend services and APIs using Go (Golang), building performant and scalable components that power Virtru's core data protection platform
Deploy and operate a highly available, scalable Enterprise SaaS application on AWS in a DevOps environment, ensuring the platform is up and running smoothly 24/7
Take full ownership of the entire application lifecycle — from code and automated testing (unit, integration, Selenium, canaries) to deployment and production operations including on-call rotations via PagerDuty
Demonstrate strong, working knowledge of software design patterns and apply them thoughtfully to solve complex engineering problems
Collaborate across a fast-paced environment, touching multiple projects and products simultaneously
Partner with the product team to identify issues, investigate root causes, and propose clear solutions and next steps
Foster a team environment where members communicate efficiently, collaborate effectively, and have a clear growth path for their technical skills; provide constructive, actionable feedback to teammates
Actively seek out mentoring opportunities to build team redundancy and backfill capability
Proactively share information, solicit feedback, and facilitate communication for multiple stakeholders including non-technical audiences
Deliver medium-to-large tasks that span multiple systems, plan and estimate timelines, handle communication around work progression, and manage risk and uncertainty within your scope of work
Ensure tasks are properly sized, prioritized, and that commitments are realistic; push back on work that is not valuable to the engineering team
Develop a thorough understanding of your team's domain and how it contributes to Virtru's overall business strategy, while also building familiarity with adjacent teams' domains