Senior Software Engineer

Altana•New York, NY

10d•$170,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Altana is building an AI-powered product network intended to help governments and businesses create a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing. The Engineering team develops the platform, which is driven by AI, scales to large amounts of data, and serves a diverse customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead a small team in developing products customers adopt. You will work closely with Product and Design, spend time observing and speaking with customers, identify customer needs, form hypotheses, and guide products from early ideas through launch and adoption. The role emphasizes customer outcomes, iterative experimentation, and using AI as a core product building block where appropriate. You will own products end to end, including customer discovery, architecture, instrumentation, release, and evaluation of telemetry. You will set technical quality standards, make practical decisions that help teams ship and learn quickly, and mentor engineers in customer-centric, hypothesis-driven development. The role is based in Brooklyn, New York, with hybrid work flexibility. Candidates must be within commuting distance of Altana’s Williamsburg office.

Requirements

Experience deploying production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
Demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof of concept through MVP to production.
Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems.
Care deeply about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Python machine learning toolsets such as NumPy, Pandas, and Dedupe.
Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

Spend time with customers, observe their workflows, identify friction, and translate findings into product opportunities.
Partner with the product team to determine what to build, form hypotheses about customer value, design experiments, and challenge briefs that are not grounded in evidence.
Pitch, prototype, ship, and drive adoption of new product surfaces from 0 to 1.
Build AI-native products using LLMs, agents, evaluations, retrieval, and modern AI tooling as appropriate.
Own end-to-end outcomes, from initial customer conversations through architecture, instrumentation, and later telemetry.
Set a high technical standard for design and code quality, simplicity, and customer impact.
Mentor engineers in customer-centric, hypothesis-driven product development and help them engage users and run experiments.
Make practical, iterative technical decisions that get working versions in front of customers quickly and evolve them based on learning.

Benefits

Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
A discretionary bonus or variable compensation plan, depending on the role.
Flexible Time Off policy.
Paid parental leave: 14 weeks for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents and up to 26 weeks for birthing parents, paid at 100% of base salary.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits with employer contributions.
High-deductible health plan fully paid by the employer for employees, plus an employer contribution to a Health Savings Account.
Flexible Spending Account option.
Life, short-term disability, long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage at no cost.
Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
Commuter benefits for public transit or parking.
Free premium Calm subscription.
Pet insurance and a pet veterinary service and telehealth discount plan.
Employee Assistance Program with confidential personal support.
Dependent Care FSA for childcare expenses.