Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Kandji
About Iru
Iru is the AI-powered security & IT platform used by the world’s fastest-growing companies to secure their users, apps, and devices. Built for the AI era, Iru unifies identity & access, endpoint security & management, and compliance automation—collapsing the stack and giving IT & security time and control back.
Iru is backed by some of the smartest investors in tech—General Catalyst, Tiger Global, Felicis, Greycroft, and First Round Capital. In July 2024, Iru raised $100 million from General Catalyst, valuing the company at $850 million. Customers include Notion, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and Mercor, and Iru partners with industry leaders such as ServiceNow and AWS. Iru was named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers 2025 list for employee engagement and satisfaction.
The Opportunity
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Iru, you will design and build the core services that power our web application, while maintaining security and scalability. You will work alongside our macOS and Infrastructure engineers to bring world class products to market.
We are looking for a software engineer with experience building large-scale, mission-critical enterprise software in an object-oriented language.
How You'll Make a Difference Day to Day:
Participate in scrum meetings, develop in an agile environment
Contribute well-written and well-documented code to further drive us to our goal of a super clean code base
Contribute to features end-to-end by developing backend services and/or frontend components
Work with an extraordinary cross-functional team to deliver beautiful UIs to our users
Develop intuitive, robust, and scalable software designed for high-volume use
Triage issues and implement appropriate fixes
Become an authority on the application
Drive consistency through collaboration with product design and the development of component design system standards
We’d love to hear from you if you have
5+ years of professional engineering experience
Exceptional proficiency in Python or Java
Experience with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, etc.
Authoritative understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design
Data-driven, analytical, hypothesis/validation mindset
Ability to identify problems/opportunities, break them down into critical parts, and design solution options
Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment
Experience with CI/CD platforms in writing and maintaining pipelines
Experience with RESTful API and/or gRPC
Experience with microservice architecture
Experience with unit and integration testing
Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ or SQS)
Experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or ECS
Fluency with SQL and experience with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
Experience with code reviews, offering and receiving constructive feedback to maintain and elevate coding standards
Required to work on-site 5x a week in our Miami office (Coral Gables).
Nice to haves, but NOT required
Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design
Experience with Unix platform and scripting
Data-driven, analytical, hypothesis/validation mindset