Software Engineer, Modernization

Origami Risk LLC•Remote,

2h•$97,000 - $122,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Software Engineer, Modernization is at the center of our modernization effort: systematically identifying and eliminating technical debt, re-platforming legacy systems onto clean, cloud-native architectures, and building solutions that are built to last. This person leverages AI heavily throughout their workflow — using it to accelerate analysis, generate refactored code, and uncover patterns across large legacy codebases.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including demonstrated work on legacy modernization, refactoring, or re-platforming initiatives
Proficiency in .NET and C#, with experience working in both legacy and modern application codebases
Solid understanding of software design principles including SOLID, clean architecture, domain-driven design, and separation of concerns
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices, with strong instincts for clean, consumer-friendly API contracts
Hands-on experience with cloud-native development on AWS, including one or more of: Lambda, Step Functions, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, SQS/SNS
Familiarity with containerization using Docker and deployment in containerized environments
Experience with version control and collaborative development workflows using Git and GitHub
A demonstrated ability to communicate about technical complexity clearly — to both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, including using AI for codebase analysis and refactoring acceleration
Familiarity with workflow orchestration using Temporal or AWS Step Functions in a production environment
Experience with database migration tooling such as Flyway and safe schema evolution practices
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, AWS CDK, or Pulumi)
Familiarity with event-driven architecture patterns and asynchronous messaging (SQS, SNS, EventBridge, or Kafka)
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment
A strong personal conviction that simple, well-structured systems are a competitive advantage — and a track record of building them

Responsibilities

Systematically identifies, prioritizes, and remediates technical debt across existing codebases, partnering with Engineering Leads to build and execute a structured modernization backlog.
Refactors and re-platforms legacy .NET and C# applications onto modern, cloud-native architectures - improving maintainability, performance, and scalability without disrupting active product delivery.
Decomposes monolithic systems into clean, loosely-coupled microservices and APIs, establishing clear domain boundaries and reducing interdependencies that slow delivery velocity.
Replaces brittle, over-engineered, or redundant systems with simpler, more sustainable solutions that are easier to understand, test, and evolve.
Uses AI-assisted tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to analyze legacy code at scale - accelerating impact analysis, generating refactoring candidates, and producing documentation for undocumented systems.
Migrates workloads from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native patterns on AWS, leveraging Lambda, containers (ECS/EKS), Step Functions, Temporal, and managed services to reduce operational overhead and improve scalability.
Applies modern software design patterns - including event-driven architecture, CQRS, and domain-driven design - to re-architected systems, positioning them to support future innovation and client scale.
Implements database migration and schema modernization using Flyway, ensuring safe, versioned transitions away from legacy data models.
Builds containerized services using Docker, establishing consistent deployment and runtime environments across development, staging, and production.
Authors infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or AWS CDK to replace manual, brittle environment configurations with repeatable, auditable provisioning.
Champions engineering simplicity as a first-class design principle - pushing back on unnecessary complexity and advocating for solutions that are easy for the next Engineer to understand and change.
Establishes and documents patterns for modernized systems, creating reusable blueprints that accelerate future re-platforming efforts and provide a consistent architecture baseline across the Engineering organization.
Instruments modernized systems with observability best practices - structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics - so that operational visibility improves alongside code quality.
Contributes to and enforce Engineering standards around code quality, testing, documentation, and API design, ensuring modernized systems raise the bar rather than just moving problems.
Designs modernized systems with client scale in mind - ensuring they can support increased load, faster release cadences, and rapid product iteration as the business grows.
Actively integrates AI development tools into your daily workflow to accelerate refactoring, generate test coverage for legacy code, and produce migration documentation.
Uses AI to perform large-scale codebase analysis - identifying duplication, dead code, anti-patterns, and high-risk areas across legacy systems that would take weeks to assess manually.
Partners with the AI Platform & Backend Services team to identify modernization opportunities that can be unlocked by new AI-powered capabilities.
Contributes to team best practices around responsible and effective use of AI-assisted development, sharing techniques that improve team-wide velocity and code quality.
Works closely with Engineering Managers, Architects, and Product teams to sequence modernization work alongside active feature development, minimizing disruption to product delivery.
Participates in architecture reviews and design discussions, bringing a modernization lens to new initiatives to prevent the introduction of new technical debt.
Contributes to pull request reviews with a focus on simplicity, maintainability, and alignment with modernization standards.
Collaborates with QA, Security, and Infrastructure teams to ensure modernized systems meet quality, compliance, and performance requirements.
Documents architectural decisions, migration patterns, and system changes to build institutional knowledge and reduce dependency on tribal knowledge.

Benefits

Medical and Dental coverage available for employees, dependents, domestic partners, and spouses
Paid Time Off – Flexible options plus 10 paid company holidays where available
All full-time positions are hybrid, with many eligible to be completely remote
Fully Paid by Origami Risk – Vision insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance, and Basic Life Insurance
Generous family leave options—including adoption and foster care placements
Pre-Tax Savings Accounts – Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Commuter Benefits, Dependent Care Savings Account
Retirement Savings – 401(k) with company match up to 4%
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – Confidential & Free support offered to colleagues facing personal or work-related complications
Education Assistance Program – to help colleagues pursue industry/role-specific certifications
Wellness Benefits – reimbursement program to invest in healthy habits as well as support better colleague productivity and stress management
Additional coverages available – Pet Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, and Voluntary Life & AD&D coverage