Senior Software Developer

Job Description

Job Description

Location : Central Florida Region preferred, remote possible for the right candidate

Salary : 80K to 130K, commensurate with experience

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About SoftwareKey

At SoftwareKey, we help software companies around the world protect and monetize their intellectual property with trusted licensing, activation, and e-commerce solutions. SoftwareKey is a small, long-standing software company serving hundreds of customers worldwide. Reliability, security, and long-term trust are core to everything we do.

We are at an inflection point : modernizing legacy systems, reducing technical risk, and accelerating product delivery while maintaining the stability our customers depend on.

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Team & Culture

We’re a small, collaborative team with long tenure and a focus on sustainable, thoughtful work. We enjoy occasional team lunches and informal get-togethers during work hours, but we’re equally respectful of focus time and life outside of work.

We also bring remote employees together once a year for a week focused on learning, collaboration, and relationship-building.

We value autonomy, clear communication, and treating each other like professionals.

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Why This Role Exists

This role exists to help SoftwareKey move forward with confidence.

We are hiring an experienced software developer to :

• Reduce technical and operational risk
• Accelerate product delivery
• Modernize legacy systems and build processes
• Bring fresh energy, curiosity, and ownership to the engineering team

You will initially work alongside an experienced developer with deep product knowledge, learning the system and its history while helping reduce single-person risk over time.

Much of our platform has supported customers for decades. We believe maintaining and modernizing these systems is meaningful work — not because it’s easy, but because reliability, trust, and long-term thinking matter.

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What Success Looks Like (12 Months In)

You will know you are successful when :

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What You’ll Work On (First 6 Months)

Your initial focus will include :

Approximate task breakdown :

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How the Role Evolves

We value engineers who can say “we should wait” just as confidently as “we should ship.”

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How Contribution Is Measured at SoftwareKey

At SoftwareKey, contribution is not measured by hours logged or tickets closed alone.

We value developers who :

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Our Philosophy on Autonomy

We believe autonomy is earned through sound judgment, curiosity, and follow-through.

As trust is established, this role is expected to :

Autonomy here means clear ownership and accountability , with leadership available as a thought partner and sounding board.

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Required Qualifications

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Additional Desired Skills

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How We Work

We value developers who :

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Security & Trust

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Growth & Retention

This is a long-term role . As trust is established, you will be given increasing autonomy over technical and product decisions. There may be future opportunities for profit sharing.

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Who This Role Is NOT For

This role is not a good fit if you :

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A Year From Now…

A great hire might write :

“I joined a long-standing company with real customers and meaningful systems. I learned deeply how the legacy platform worked, helped modernize the technology and build processes, improved security, and reduced technical debt. I was trusted to explore improvements, make decisions, and take ownership – and that trust made all the difference.”