Senior Software Engineer

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 Opportunity at Altana

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Languages:
  
  Python, Type Script, SQL
• Tools:
  Docker, Git, Kubernetes, FastAPI, AWS/Azure, MLFlow, Temporal
• Data stores:
  Postgres, Databricks and Open Search

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,

$225,000 - $265,000 USD

• 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…