Lead Software Engineer, Backend
About the role
We are expanding from one product (Decrypt) to an ecosystem of products. The Platform team is responsible for the shared services & infrastructure that power this ecosystem, including data pipelines, authn/authz services, business insights, API tooling, and database hydration and synchronization. As an early member of the team, you’ll have an outsized impact on the Platform’s evolution in support of our developers, forward deployed engineers, and end users. You’ll have a chance to build a data platform that integrates state of the art tools in Machine Learning and AI, and to solve for mission-critical workflows.
What You'll Do
A typical week will include the following:
Design and architecture
You will design elegant software solutions to complex business problems. For example: extend our platform to enable internet scale data collection and processing; scale from supporting tens to hundreds of applications; extend our data pipelines to handle petabyte scale geospatial data; enforce permissions on massive quantities of user-uploaded documents.
Hands on coding
You will contribute to both new and existing projects and services in multiple domains, including classified environments.
Collaboration and mentorship
As a senior member of the platform team, you will be a natural point of contact for other engineering teams, product managers, and Mission. You will work with these stakeholders to understand requirements, identify business value, and provide visibility. You will also provide technical guidance and mentorship to peers.
What we look for
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Experience with backend data processing at large scale
- Excellent communication skills
- Preference for experience with our tech stack - NodeJS, Python, Temporal, Qdrant, AWS (particularly RDS, Opensearch, and S3)
- Preference for a previous security clearance.
- U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems
What we offer
The salary range for this position is $175,000-$215,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.
We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.
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