Senior Staff Software Engineer

Altana•Washington, DC

3h•$225,000 - $265,000•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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

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.

Benefits

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