Senior Software Engineer

Brooklyn, NY;
Washington, D.C.;
Boston, MA;
San Francisco, CA

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, APIs, 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.

• Ingest product requirements, define technical requirements, and design practical, iterative technology designs that achieve our product and technical goals.
• Work with the 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, holding 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 mature 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 to keep the team focused on outcomes while delivering sustainable and consistent code.

• 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.
• Deployed production code and services to cloud‑hosted environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof‑of‑concept to MVP to production.
• Self‑starter with experience working on large, complex problems.
• Cares deeply about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge‑sharing.
• Has experience taking over codebases and making them your own, carrying forward with new feature development.
• Master of prioritizing and picking your area of focus intentionally.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.

• Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience using workflow orchestration technologies like Temporal.

• Languages:
  
  Python, Type Script, SQL
• Data stores:
  Postgres, Databricks and Open Search

This role can fully remote or be based in any of our Altana hub locations, with hybrid work flexibility:
New York City, Boston, MA, Washington D.C., San Francisco, CA.

$225,000 - $265,000 USD

The salary range is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual base 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;

they 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:
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