Senior Software Engineer, Front End

The Opportunity at Altana

The Engineering team is looking for talented Software Engineers to help build out our vision. You’ll work closely with our Back End Engineers and Data Scientists on projects to analyze and observe world-scale datasets, write code that can scale to produce never-before-seen insights, and construct APIs to deliver our product vision.

Your Responsibilities 

• Build products that enable the world's leading governments, logistics providers, and enterprises to move towards safer, more resilience, and more inclusive global commerce
• Develop new user facing features for the Altana product suite including workflows for network exploration, risk assessment, graph analysis, and transaction screening
• Design and build reusable, well tested code and libraries for data exploration, visualization, and analysis
• Collaborate closely with product and design to prototype, develop and launch new features and enhancements to customer experience 
• Analyze and propose technical solutions to invent, enable, and enhance our product offerings
• Be responsible for automating, testing, and deploying your work
• Collaborate with fellow engineers and data scientists across the organization
• Write TypeScript and JavaScript UIs for the web
• Use Next.js / React / Typescript to develop data visualizations and graph insights

About You

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• You are an experienced engineer with at least 8+ years of real-world professional experience writing web front end applications in React, Angular, or other web libraries or frameworks.
• You have a track record of ownership and delivery of projects with major organizational impact
• You care deeply about engineering excellence, clean code, testing, and knowledge-sharing
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills
• Inquisitive mind; able to dig into code and understand it, ask questions about it, and ramp up reasonably fast.

Nice to have, but not required

• Experience with ReGraph, ag-grid, and various css-in-JS solution, or other similar libraries
• Backend engineering experience. We use Python for our backend services, but we care more about fundamentals of service and API designs
• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes
• Working knowledge of cloud services like AWS, Azure, or GCP

Technologies we love to use at Altana

• Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python
• Frameworks and libraries: Next.js, ReGraph, ag-grid, vanilla-css, playwright, React testing-library and Jest
• Tools: Github, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS
• Datastores: Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redshift, ArangoDB

Compensation Package

We are committed to providing competitive compensation for all roles at Altana. We carefully consider multiple factors when determining compensation, including your skills, experience, and location while balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. The target base salary range for the Senior Software Engineer role is $165,000 to $215,000. All full-time employees receive a competitive new hire equity grant, and may be eligible for additional bonus compensation depending on role.

Equal Opportunity Statement

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.