[Remote] Senior Staff Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Altana is the network for trusted trade, empowering governments and businesses with an AI-powered product network. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will work closely with Data Scientists to build platforms, APIs, and services that analyze world-scale datasets and deliver insights.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• 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.
• 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 individual health situation.
• Our high deductible health plan is 100% employer paid for employees and supplemented with an employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA).
• There is also a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option.
• Supplemental Benefits: Altana provides life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage, all at no cost to you, so you know that you and your loved ones are covered in case of an emergency.
• 401(k) Savings: Save for and invest in your future using our Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
• Commuter Benefits: Save money on your commute by setting aside pre-tax funds for public transit or parking!
• Wellness: Because we value mental and emotional health, every Altana employee has access to a free premium subscription to Calm, the #1 app for meditation, sleep, and mindfulness.
• Pet Insurance: Pets are family too! Keep them healthy with Wishbone insurance and / or our Total Pet vet service and telehealth discount plan.
• Employee Assistance Program: Free access to confidential personal support.
• Dependent Care FSA: You will have access to a Dependent Care FSA, which allows you to set aside pre-tax funds for childcare expenses

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