Lead Software Engineer

Overview

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 driven by AI, scalable to a massive trove of data with 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 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 services creating and supporting our overall 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 while holding a high bar for quality.
• Mentor developers and help them level up their skills.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day work of a team of engineers and ensure that the team is progressing along the defined roadmap.
• Drive technical decision-making and problem-solving across the team, ensuring solutions are efficient, scalable, and maintainable.
• Serve as the first point of escalation for a portion of the product surface area.

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ 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 strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.

• Experience with Python Machine Learning toolsets (Numpy, Pandas, Dedupe).
• Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Languages:
  
  Python, Py Spark
• Tools:
  Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS/Azure, MLFlow, Celery
• Data stores:
  Databricks and Delta Lakes

This role can be based in either of our Altana New York or San Francisco, CA hub locations, with hybrid work flexibility.

$180,000- $230,000 USD

The salary range, to the extent specified for this role, 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; and 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:
  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…