Job Description
Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.
The Engineering team is responsible for building out the platforms API’s services workflows and logical architectures for bringing this vision to life. We are creating a platform fundamentally driven by AI which scales to a massive trove of data and a diverse customer base; it is a complex system that will stretch engineering in many directions. You’ll work closely with our 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
- Ingest product requirements define technical requirements and design practical iterative technology designs that achieve our product and technical goals.
- Work with your product manager to develop implementation plans against our technical product roadmaps.
- Personally maintain develop and deploy our customer facing workflows to create and support our overall product architecture.
- Analyze and propose technical solutions to invent enable and enhance our product offerings.
- Be responsible for automating testing and deploying your own and your team’s work.
- Review the code and technical designs authored by your team members and hold a high bar for quality.
- Mentor developers and help them level up their skills.
- Be responsible for the technical excellence of day-to-day work of a team of engineers and ensure that the team’s deliverables are maturing along the defined roadmap.
- Drive technical decision-making and problem-solving across the team ensuring solutions are efficient scalable and maintainable.
- Identify technical and operational gaps for the team and create plans and work items to address them.
- Serve as the domain expert for a portion of the product surface area while holding a firm technical understanding for other areas as well.
- Cooperate with team leads and managers in order to keep the team focused on outcomes while delivering sustainable and consistent code.
About You
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of real-world professional experience writing back end or data-driven software in demanding environments.
- You’ve deployed production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
- You have demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production.
- Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large complex problems.
- You care deeply about engineering excellence clean code and knowledge-sharing.
- You have experience with taking over codebases and making them your own carrying forward with new feature development.
- You are a master of prioritizing and picking your area of focus intentionally
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.
Nice to have but not required
- Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience using workflow orchestration technologies like Temporal
Technologies we love to use at Altana
- Languages: Python TypeScript SQL
- Tools: Docker Git Kubernetes FastAPI AWS/Azure MLFlow Temporal
- Datastores: Postgres Databricks and OpenSearch
This role can fully remote or it can be based in any of our Altana hub locations with hybrid work flexibility: New York City Boston MA Washington D.C. San Francisco CA
US Salary Range and Benefits
$225000 - $265000 USD
The salary range to the extent specified for this role is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual based salary for the position. The base salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Altana's total compensation package. Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role. Additionally Altana offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
- Flexible Time Off: Altana operates with a Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy that gives you agency over your own time off so you can maximize your work-life balance.
- Parental Leave: We offer industry leading Paid Parental Leave (PPL) providing 14 weeks of leave for non-birthing adoptive and foster parents and up to 26 weeks of leave for birthing parents all paid at 100% of your base salary.
- Health Benefits: We have a full suite of medical vision and dental benefits with generous employer contributions designed to give you flexibility and choice for your individual health situation. Our high deductible health plan is 100% employer paid for employees and supplemented with an employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA). There is also a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option.
- Supplemental Benefits: Altana provides life short- and long-term disability and AD&D insurance coverage all at no cost to you so you know that you and your loved ones are covered in case of an emergency.
- 401(k) Savings: Save for and invest in your future using our Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
- Commuter Benefits: Save money on your commute by setting aside pre-tax funds for public transit or parking!
- Wellness: Because we value mental and emotional health every Altana employee has access to a free premium subscription to Calm the #1 app for meditation sleep and mindfulness.
- Pet Insurance: Pets are family too! Keep them healthy with Wishbone insurance and / or our Total Pet vet service and telehealth discount plan.
- Employee Assistance Program: Free access to confidential personal support.
- Dependent Care FSA: You will have access to a Dependent Care FSA which allows you to set aside pre-tax funds for childcare expenses
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
Our values are the core beliefs that shape who we are what we stand for and how we behave.They form the foundation of Altana’s culture and integrity and guide how we hire design build and connect with each other and our customers.
- Trust: Our customers and partners entrust us with missions of the highest importance. We honor that by keeping our word meeting commitments and ensuring every action we take reinforces confidence in us. We rely on each other to deliver to speak openly and to hold ourselves accountable.
- Resilience: In a world of uncertainty and complexity our work must withstand challenges evolve with conditions and ensure reliability over time. Resilience is both how we operate and what we deliver. It’s how we respond when things don’t go to plan –– we adapt we support each other and we keep moving forward.
- Stewardship: We are stewards of every mission we touch. Because our work impacts lives and futures we hold ourselves accountable to delivering mission impact and never compromising. Our responsibility extends beyond individual projects to the broader system of global trade. We believe that stewardship starts from within so that we can bring focus creativity and excellence to our work. Each of us is personally responsible for fostering a workplace where people can thrive. And we are stewards of the greater good of the company. By holding ourselves and each other accountable we build a culture of innovation and collective success that reflects the scale of our mission.
- Courage: Courage is what unlocks the seemingly impossible for our customers. It’s the core value that drives us make bold moves and take on big complicated network problems—the ones others avoid. We know success isn't guaranteed but we have the audacious vision to believe a solution is possible and to build it. Courage fuels our growth mindset. It means embracing challenges that make us stronger and it’s demonstrated by how we approach hard conversations and complex projects.
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.
Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.
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What We Do
Altana is the world's product network empowering a new era of global commerce by uniting businesses and governments on a trusted AI-powered platform to build a safer more resilient supply chain. The United States and allied governments use Altana’s product network to enforce tariffs and manage their borders. Five of the world’s 10 largest logistics providers use Altana to efficiently manage cross-border trade and 140 million buyer-supplier connections are managed on the network.
Why Work With Us
Altana provides competitive base salaries full global benefits including a 100% employer-paid plan and tax-advantaged HSA and FSA options in the US. Plus we provide a generous PTO policy annual stipends for wellness and learning and development equity program and up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
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