Senior Software Engineer (Perl)

About this role

Senior Software Engineer


Soutron
| Fully Remote | Full-time


About Soutron
Soutron builds specialist information, library, and archive management software used by corporate, legal, government, and research organizations around the world. Our platform helps teams curate, discover, and unlock the value of their most important knowledge assets — from legal precedent libraries to corporate archives to specialist research collections.


We are a small, focused team that ships modern SaaS for a sector that has historically been under-served by technology. With new investment behind the business, we are modernizing the platform, expanding the product, and investing in the engineering team that will carry us into the next decade.


About The Role
Soutron Global is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to be a key technical contributor on a mature, cloud-hosted SaaS library management platform serving 1,000+ public and K-12 school libraries across the United States. This is a rare opportunity to work hands-on with a stable, battle-tested codebase and a loyal customer base, and to help shape its technical direction over the coming years.


You will report to the Director of Engineering and serve as a senior individual contributor and technical area owner for the platform — driving day-to-day development, contributing to infrastructure improvements, and partnering with the Director of Engineering on the modernization of the stack over time. You will work closely with the existing development team and benefit from a thorough, structured onboarding program.


This is not a greenfield role. The right candidate is someone who is energized by going deep on a proven system, improving it methodically, and integrating seamlessly into an established engineering team — not someone who wants to rewrite everything from scratch.


What You'll Do

• Codebase ownership — senior developer and technical area owner for the platform and ancillary...