About the Role
We’re building a data-intensive platform that ingests information from a wide range of external sources, enriches and routes it, and serves rich visualization and analytics on top. We’re looking for a senior engineer who’s comfortable moving across the stack - backend services, data analytics, cloud infrastructure, and a modern web frontend - and who cares as much about how we make decisions as the code we ship.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Ruby on Rails applications with PostgreSQL, including progressive web applications optimized for mobile, desktop, and offline use.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs, database schemas, and data models for mission-critical defense and logistics systems.
- Build and maintain durable, multi-source data ingestion pipelines that transform, deduplicate, and route data across relational, graph, and analytical stores.
- Develop interactive web applications that enable users to visualize, query, and work with complex operational data.
- Design data access patterns that leverage the strengths of relational, graph, and analytical databases.
- Deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes using containerization, reproducible builds, and secure software supply-chain practices.
- Build end-to-end observability across applications and infrastructure, including traces, metrics, logs, and operational dashboards.
- Implement authentication, authorization, security, and compliance best practices, including integrations with DoD systems and secure data pipelines.
- Optimize application and data performance for scalability, reliability, and disconnected or low-connectivity environments.
- Partner with product and design teams to translate mission and user requirements into technical solutions that support military readiness and logistics operations.
- Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews while maintaining high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability.
Requirements
5-10 years of experience in full stack development
Strong experience with Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, and Docker.
Experience with React, Angular, Tailwind, Turbo.js, and/or Javascript
Familiarity with Rust's async ecosystem (e.g., Tokio, Axum, Tower, tracing)
Hands-on experience deploying and operating services in Kubernetes at scale, including managed clusters, Helm charts, and troubleshooting in-cluster issues.
Experience building modern web applications using React, TypeScript, Vite, and mapping libraries.
Experience implementing and maintaining OpenTelemetry instrumentation beyond default configurations.
Strong API and software abstraction design skills, with experience designing systems across heterogeneous backends and making thoughtful architectural trade offs.
Excellent technical communication skills, including writing design documents, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), acceptance criteria, and other engineering documentation before implementation.
Compensation
Salary ($130,000-$175,000) + Equity
Salary is determined by the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
Benefits
Medical, Dental, Vision coverage
HSA/FSA options
Parental Leave
401(k): 100% match for the first 6% contributed
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Home Office Stipend