Senior Platform Engineer

Employer: Ibotta, Inc.

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Degree Required: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent foreign education 

Academic Discipline(s):

Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a closely related field

Experience Required: 5 years of post-degree progressive experience

Alternate Occupations Acceptable:

Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a closely related field

Job Description:

• Build software products and tools, using the right language/tool for the job, that drive valuable impact to the company, customers, and fellow software engineers.

• Work collaboratively with a cross-functional team to design, develop, and deliver new products and features that will be used by millions of users.

• Use Amazon’s Amazon Web Services infrastructure and advanced services daily, including serverless architectures.

• Identify the best software tools and technologies to design and build flexible, scalable, reliable, and high-performing applications.

• Demonstrate leadership by offering guidance to team members, cultivating their technical aptitude, and championing best practices within the development process.

• Leverage and contribute to CI/CD pipeline to deploy code many times daily.

• Write software tests and participate in code reviews to ensure shipping of high-quality, maintainable code.

• Oversee technical solutions end-to-end (contributing ideas, first code commit, operating in production).

Position may telecommute from home on Mondays and Fridays within reasonable commuting distance of Denver, CO. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of object-oriented software design, functional design, systems design, micro service/API design and supporting architectural principles.

• Knowledge of development best practices, including security, compliance, performance, optimization, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Knowledge of building highly scalable, observable, and fault tolerant platforms using architectural patterns, including retries, circuit breakers, and rate limiters, on top of horizontally scalable systems.

• Knowledge of Typescript, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Spring/Spring Boot and Nodejs.

• Knowledge of data stores Postgres, DynamoDB, and Redis.

• Knowledge of DataDog to implement observability, monitoring, and alerting for services and establish service level objectives (SLOs) for services.

• Knowledge of debugging techniques, testing approaches, and frameworks from unit testing to automated testing.

• Knowledge of agile concepts (Kanban) and application of test-driven development (TDD).

• Knowledge of cloud platforms AWS and GCloud.

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools Terraform and CloudFormation.

Salary (Annual): $144,290.00 – $154,290.00

Work Location: 1801 California Street, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80202. Position may telecommute from home on Mondays and Fridays within reasonable commuting distance of Denver, CO.

Hours of Work: Usually 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday 

Applicants interested in applying for this position should go to https://home.ibotta.com/work-with-us/careers/ and search for the job title above or email resume to [email protected]. Apply by 9/22/2025.

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