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Senior Software Engineer, Web Experience

Kharon · Denver, CO, USA ·

Pay:
$160,000-$200,000/yr
Job type:
Full Time

Application Deadline: 12 June 2026

Department: Engineering

Location: Denver

Compensation: $160,000 - $200,000 / year

TL;DR

Kharon is seeking a full-time Senior Software Engineer based in Denver. This role requires in-office attendance at least 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

  • Marketing & Content Infrastructure: Spearhead the development of our high‑traffic marketing sites, ensuring these platforms are not just visually stunning but technically optimized for rapid content publishing.
  • SEO & Web Performance: Implement advanced SEO strategies (SSR/SSG, JSON‑LD schema, automated sitemaps, llms.txt) to maintain our dominance in global risk search rankings. Own Core Web Vitals to ensure lightning‑fast load times.
  • Login Walls & Gated Content: Maintain the sophisticated walls between our free and premium content, integrating with our Auth provider and subscription management tools to create frictionless transitions from guest to subscriber.
  • Marketing Technology Stack: Manage integrations with our growth stack, including HubSpot for lead capture, Google Tag Manager for event tracking, and other technologies.
  • Visual Excellence: Work closely with our Design and Brand teams to build and maintain a scalable design system that ensures brand consistency across marketing pages, login portals, and product interfaces.
  • Full Stack Capability: While frontend‑heavy, jump into our Python/Java backend services to work with APIs that feed content to the marketing site or handle user authentication logic.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in software engineering with a proven track record of building high‑performance marketing sites or content‑heavy SaaS platforms.
  • Deep expertise in React and Next.js, with a clear understanding of the nuances of Static Site Generation (SSG) vs. Server‑Side Rendering (SSR) for SEO.
  • Technical SEO mastery from the ground up — crawl budgets, canonicalization, and structuring data for rich snippets.
  • Experience implementing OAuth/OIDC flows and managing user sessions behind login walls (Auth0, FusionAuth, or similar).
  • Proficiency with Headless CMS platforms (e.g., Contentful, Sanity) and marketing automation integrations (HubSpot, Segment).
  • A pixel‑perfect design sensibility — comfortable in Figma and capable of translating complex data visualizations into clean, responsive web components.
  • Strong communicator who can collaborate across teams, explaining technical trade‑offs to marketing stakeholders while holding your own in architectural reviews with core platform engineers.

Nice to Haves

  • Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks (Optimizely, VWO).
  • A background in Fintech, RegTech, or data‑driven SaaS.
  • Experience with GraphQL for fetching content from multiple sources.
  • Some experience with LLM‑based coding tools like Cursor, Claude, etc.

Stack

You’ll be working across a modern, well‑defined stack: React, Next.js, and TypeScript on the frontend with Tailwind for styling; Python and Java on the backend via REST and GraphQL APIs; Auth0 for authentication; AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes for infrastructure; and HubSpot, Google Analytics 4, and GTM on the marketing side.

Benefits

  • Fully sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurances
  • FSA program for both medical and dependent care
  • Long term disability
  • 401k + Roth with matching and immediate vesting
  • Flexible paid time off + 11 paid holidays

Equal Opportunity Statement

Kharon is an equal opportunity employer. Kharon is committed to cultivating and maintaining a workplace that is free from harassment and discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or identity, neurodiversity, appearances, age, protected veteran status, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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