Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Vannevar Labs builds next generation defense software for the public servants keeping our country safe.  As a team, we exist because we believe in public service, and we think that our democracy and government improve only if we put serious, collective effort into improving them, including the technology our government uses.   

This mission has become urgent. Ukraine is engaged in a war for survival with Russia. China regularly flies nuclear-capable bombers into Taiwan and Japan’s airspace. The US and our allies are fighting a war of deterrence with woefully outdated technology. We build software to support these missions, including providing battlefield information to allies, identifying malign activity, and helping the US deter and deescalate conflict.  

We are a profitable growth startup with some of the best defense investors in the world, including General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72, and enterprise tech investors Costanoa and Felicis. 

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.

• 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

Vannevar Labs is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!

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