Senior Backend Software Engineer

Wire Screen is a fast-growing Series A startup bringing clarity to one of the world’s most complex business landscapes. We’re building the go-to intelligence platform for navigating global supply chains and China-related risk—revealing the networks, relationships, and financial ties behind companies so our customers can see connections, remove obstacles, and make confident decisions.

Backed by Sequoia Capital and Harpoon Ventures, our team includes a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and senior engineers from Google, Twitter, and Oracle. We launched just three years ago and already have strong traction with top-tier government customers—and we’re just getting started. If you’re excited to make global systems more transparent and secure, now’s the perfect time to join us.

Check out this blog from our CEO on how Wire Screen traced Deep Seek’s origins back to 2023—well before it went mainstream in 2025.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll work collaboratively to design and build our next-generation platform and product features. You'll face diverse and interesting problems, from modeling graph relationships between tens of millions of entities to augmenting datasets via new data pipeline stages to delivering data to our web UI and other products. Beyond delivering product features that could 10x our revenue—responsibilities also include scaling our systems to handle massive data growth, optimizing software performance, and pushing the boundaries of what’s technically possible.

Good communication skills are key in this role as we work closely with our research team of experts in international business and regulation. We believe in teamwork, collaboration, and helping each other to reach our goals. We have a lot of challenging problems to solve and are looking for someone with a positive outlook and can-do attitude. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you’ll have an excellent opportunity to grow quickly in your career as you develop a breadth of skills alongside a highly motivated, capable team.

• Work alongside a product manager, UX designer, and other engineers to deliver valuable new product features.
• Collaborate on our technical vision.
• Advocate for and prototype new technology solutions that solve real problems.
• Build scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems able to handle more data, more queries, and more insights.
• Design platform APIs upon which multiple product features depend.
• Continuously and incrementally improve our engineering processes, documentation, tools, and systems.

• 5+ years as a backend or full-stack software engineer.
• Proficiency with relational databases and SQL.
• A generalist approach, and an open mind to trying new ways of solving problems.
• A passion for building software to solve business and product problems.
• Strong technical skills that enable you to deliver a quality product, quickly to market.
• An acumen for working with others to break down problems into smaller deliverables with intermediate milestones.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical teammates.
• A growth mindset and positive attitude.

• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience with large-scale data processing engines like Apache Spark.
• Experience working with datasets of 10s of millions of entities, especially as a knowledge graph or similar format.
• Experience building and scaling data pipelines.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders on data-related problems alongside data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists.

At Wire Screen, you'll do high-impact work that helps shape the global economy and power competition. We’re a mission-driven team with a growth mindset—curious, collaborative, and unafraid to take on bold challenges. You’ll be empowered to act, heard when you speak, and supported as you grow. With strong market momentum and ambitious goals, this is an exciting time to join us and help build something that truly matters.

At Wire Screen, we care deeply about our team and are committed to supporting your well-being—both in and out of the workplace. Here’s how we take care of our employees:

• Competitive compensation including salary, equity, and rapid growth potential
• 100% company-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees
• FSA, HSA, and 401(k) options to help you plan for healthcare expenses and retirement
• Generous paid time off plus company-wide holidays to help you rest and recharge
• Commuter benefits for NYC and D.C.
  
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• Hybrid office schedule for NYC-based and D.C.
  
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