Senior Software Engineer (Python)

About the role

HireRight, a global background screening and workforce solutions provider based in Nashville, Tennessee, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build products that matter. This is not a ticket-closing role: you will own meaningful product features end to end, strengthen the team and help shape how software is built. The company values curiosity, simplicity, ownership, lean thinking, craft, direct feedback, smart risk, data-informed decisions, agentic leverage and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy and operate product features used by customers, candidates and internal teams
• Break complex features into shippable increments and deliver them reliably
• Make design and architecture decisions and explain the trade-offs clearly
• Own quality and reliability, including deployment, observability and on-call
• Proactively reduce technical debt and unnecessary complexity
• Contribute to team practices through design reviews, code reviews and mentoring junior engineers
• Partner with product and design to turn ambiguous problems into clear, buildable solutions
• Use AI and agentic tools to accelerate work

Required profile

• Typically 5+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to own features end to end
• Strong backend engineering skills and proven ability to build and operate production services at scale
• Deep, hands-on experience with AI-driven solutions as a builder, not just a user
• Ability to drive complex, cross-functional technical projects from design to completion
• Quick learner who can reason deeply and build responsibly

Required skills

• Django and Django REST Framework, or a similar Python web framework (FastAPI, Flask)
• RESTful API design and strong SQL, preferably PostgreSQL, with an ORM such as Django ORM or SQLAlchemy
• Task queues (Celery or similar), message brokers and event-driven design
• Technical writing: design docs, trade-off analyses, postmortems
• AWS (EC2, S3, EKS/Kubernetes) and automated testing (pytest) with CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Object-oriented design, design patterns and clean architecture

Nice to have: Temporal or other workflow engines, TypeScript and React, regulated domains or sensitive personal data, infrastructure as code (AWS CDK, AWS Landing Zone Accelerator), engineering practice definition in new teams, and building or customising AI agent workflows.

What we offer

• Hybrid work with flexibility to work 2 days per week from home
• Private health insurance
• Vacation

Candidates apply by submitting their resume or CV in English.