Software Engineer

### Who you are
- You are innovative: willing to take risks, think critically about novel solutions, and advocate for your ideas while seeking feedback and collaboration
- You will be making trade-offs as you work to ensure that our systems are prepared to scale — being able to effectively communicate these trade-offs with your teammates is a must
- 4+ years as a Backend Engineer or similar role
- Experience with Python
- Familiarity with relational databases
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Experience scraping data or a strong desire to learn
- U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems with the ability to obtain security clearance
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with ElasticSearch
- Experience with Docker
- Experiences with caching databases (e.g. Redis)
- Grit and creativity to keep going when faced with a roadblock
- Success in working problems to conclusion and trying different approaches until one works
- Ability to work autonomously
- Demonstrated bias towards achieving an outcome even if it requires helping or doing the job of someone else on another team
- Active TS / SCI Clearance is a plus but not needed

### What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build and refine our data collection and processing applications
- You’ll be in charge of scraping the web for mission critical data and then building out pipelines for those data
- We also do something common in Silicon Valley tech companies but radical in the defense space: we develop and test products side-by-side with our users, including on US military bases and remote locations abroad
- Our engineering culture is about empathizing with users and building software products that deliver maximum mission impact
- Your decisions today will have a large impact on the company today and into the future
- We believe that simple systems are easier to understand, maintain, and scale - we prefer pragmatic, product-centric solutions
- Develop innovative solutions collecting data from various online sources
- Work side-by-side with our mission team and product managers to ideate software solutions
- Design client-side and server-side architecture
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
- Write effective APIs
- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
- Write technical documentation
- Collaborate with analysts to improve software

### Benefits
- Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
- Equity + 401(k) Match
- Open PTO + all Federal Holidays and Dec 23-31
- Paid Parental Leave
- 100% Remote - Work From Anywhere in the US
- Flexible Work Environment - You Manage Your Work Day
- Quarterly Off-Site Travel for Team-Building