Job Information
Altana Technologies, Inc. Senior Staff Software Engineer in Washington, District Of Columbia
Your 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 teams 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 teams 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.
About You
- 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.
- Youve 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 have, but not required
- Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience using workflow orchestration technologies like Temporal
Technologies we love to use at Altana
- Languages: Python, TypeScript, SQL
- Tools: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, FastAPI, AWS/Azure, MLFlow, Temporal
- Datastores: Postgres, Databricks and OpenSearch
This role can fully remote or it can be based in any of our Altana hub locations, with hybrid work flexibility: New York City, Boston, MA, Washington D.C., San Francisco, CA,
US Salary Range and Benefits
$225,000 - $265,000 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 based salary for the position
At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are.