Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Altana is the network for trusted trade, using an AI-powered product network to help governments and businesses build a more resilient and secure global economy. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable customer-facing workflows, platforms, APIs, and services while collaborating with product managers and data scientists. The role also leads technical decision-making, code quality, mentoring, and the technical excellence of an engineering team.
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
Skills
- 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
- Languages: Python, TypeScript, SQL
- Tools: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, FastAPI, AWS/Azure, MLFlow, Temporal
- Datastores: Postgres, Databricks and OpenSearch
- Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience using workflow orchestration technologies like Temporal
Benefits
- Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers.
- Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role.
- 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.
- 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: Every Altana employee has access to a free premium subscription to Calm, the #1 app for meditation, sleep, and mindfulness.
- Pet Insurance: 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.
- This role can fully remote or it can be based in any of our Altana hub locations, with hybrid work flexibility.
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