Software Engineer

About the role

The Software Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and evolving scalable software systems across Orion’s platform. This role operates across the full stack, leveraging React/Next.js and Ruby on Rails, and is expected to make high-quality technical decisions that balance long-term maintainability, performance, and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of complex features and systems that span multiple services and product areas.
• Contribute to architectural direction, improve engineering standards, and mentor other engineers while driving high-quality execution.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy, anticipate challenges before they arise, and influence both technical direction and team effectiveness.
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable systems across frontend, backend, and data layers.
• Build and evolve applications using React, Next.js, and Ruby on Rails.
• Design robust APIs and service boundaries (REST/GraphQL).
• Evaluate tradeoffs and make long-term technical decisions aligned with system evolution.
• Ensure consistent error handling, resiliency, and system reliability.
• Lead efforts to improve code quality, standards, and engineering practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-system issues.
• Contribute to architecture and technical roadmap discussions.
• Mentor engineers and raise the overall technical bar of the team.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver solutions that span multiple systems and domains.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive improvements in performance and scalability.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering velocity while maintaining correctness and quality.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong Experience With React / Next.js or Ruby on Rails.
• API design (REST and/or GraphQL).
• Relational databases (MySQL or similar).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript and modern frontend architecture.
• Experience with Next.js SSR, ISR, and server components.
• Experience with background processing (Sidekiq) and caching (Redis).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS), CI/CD, and containerization.
• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with feature flags and progressive delivery.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted / agentic development tools such as Cursor.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation workflows such as Promptfoo.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Skills

• System & Architectural Thinking.
• Evaluates and introduces new technologies thoughtfully, based on tradeoffs and business value.
• Understands and optimizes database performance, indexing, and data modeling.

Technical Excellence

• Designs systems that span multiple services, platforms, or product areas.
• Applies appropriate data structures, algorithms, and abstractions with long-term maintainability in mind.
• Establishes and enforces coding standards, error handling patterns, and best practices.
• Writes clean, readable, well-structured code that is intuitive to navigate and extend.
• Demonstrates strong understanding of full-stack architecture (UI, API, database, infrastructure).

Ownership & Independence

• Operates independently and anticipates problems before they occur.
• Takes ownership of features from design through production and beyond.
• Make decisions that optimize for long-term system health, not just short-term delivery.

Leadership & Influence

• Mentor’s engineers and contributes to their growth.
• Leads by example and promotes high engineering standards.
• Influences team direction through technical insight and strong reasoning.
• Challenges assumptions and proposes better solutions when appropriate.

Collaboration & Communication

• Communicates complex technical ideas clearly across engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborates effectively across teams and systems.
• Drives alignment on solutions that have broad organizational impact.

Pay

$99,862.00 - $154,679.00

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, and disability coverage on day one.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Pet benefits including pawternity leave and pet insurance.
• Student loan repayment.
• Competitive benefits package.

About Us

At Orion, we achieve our best work when we support one another, staying personally accountable to each other and the clients we serve. We create a welcoming environment where everyone is respected, valued, and heard. Our commitment to create raving fans ensures we consistently exceed client expectations. Thinking differently is in our DNA—we innovate always, push boundaries, and reject the status quo to deliver transformative outcomes. Together, we support one another and see it through to success, driving our collective achievements and those of our clients.