Software Engineer, Generalist

About Sauron Industries

Sauron protects families and homes by bringing the innovations of autonomous robots and self-driving cars to residential security. Our team is led by veteran entrepreneurs and roboticists, with alumni from Zipline, Tesla, Apple, and Google. We have raised a $22M seed round led by A
* and Atomic, with participation from other leading venture capital firms and angel investors, including 8VC and Flock Safety CEO Garret Langley.

We’re building a new way for homeowners to interact with their properties and security systems—centered around a 3D model of the home in a beautifully designed app for iPad and iPhone. As a Product Engineer, you will help design, develop, and deliver this experience to a wide user base.

We’re looking for someone who is creative, detail-oriented, and deeply cares about user experience. You should be strategic about building for the long term and enjoy collaborating with teammates to create reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications. You’ll solve challenging problems, shape product roadmaps, and influence development approaches.

• Collaboration, pair programming, and teamwork
• Iterative development and regular refactoring to keep our codebases healthy
• Continuous improvement and shipping small, meaningful updates
• Ownership across the stack

• Design and develop performant, scalable, end-to-end user‑facing systems
• Build secure, high‑reliability features and APIs with low latency
• Partner with designers and AI engineers to refine the user experience
• Iterate quickly on prototypes and ship polished features to production
• Build systems with security as a core priority for large‑scale consumer use

• BS in Computer Science + 3 years of industry experience, or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent training/experience
• Proficiency in Python for backend development
• Experience building and maintaining end‑user applications with React (web) and Swift
  
  UI (iOS)
• Backend service development using Python and RESTful APIs
• Experience with real‑time protocols like Web Socket
• Ability to create internal tools and debugging utilities using Python or Java Script
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable deployment
• Strong communication and cross‑functional collaboration skills

• Exposure to 3D graphics libraries (Unity, Unreal Engine, OpenGL, Metal)
• Familiarity with end‑to‑end testing frameworks and deployment automation
• Knowledge of video streaming solutions