Back End Developer

Smack Technologies Inc. • Full-time • Remote (California, United States, US) • $140k - $170k / year • 6h ago

Are you mission driven, and want to solve our nation’s greatest security challenges?The US military has spent the last 22 years fighting the global war on terror. Smack Technologies, a VOSB start-up,buildingsoftware that enables the US and its partners to re-establish deterrence, has an immediate opening for an experienced Backend Software Engineer!

As a Backend Engineer at Smack, you will build backend for this complex problem. Our product leverages AI and mathematical optimization. For it to work, the system must be exceptional at three things. First, it needs to make planning collaborative and simple. Maybe even fun. Basically, be the opposite of planning in PowerPoint. Second, it needs to enable human-in-the-loop autonomy. Third, it needs to get the right data and use it to find the best possible solutions with lots of unknowns. The backend will make this possible–combining disparate data sources and running time-sensitive algorithms to produce useful results. As part of our founding team, you’ll have strong ownership over major parts of our system. You’ll help design the systems and choose the technologies.

Location: Remote w/travel to California/Hawaii

Salary: $140k - $170k pending experience

Terms: Full-time

***Active TS/SCI clearance is a must to apply***

Tech Stack:

We currently use both Go and Python on the backend, depending on the module. We’re open to team members who only know one but who would be open to learning/using the other.
Ent, Temporal, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, k8s, Pulumi
As an early-stage startup, we are trying to find the right balance of enough process to have high-quality software that doesn’t require heroics to maintain, but not too much process that would waste time. You’ll help to determine this balance.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors in Computer Science, Operations Research, or another relevant technical degree (or strong demonstrated professional software engineering skills–the bar for non-traditional developers is high, but we’re open)
Proficient in Python, Go or both and high-quality backend software development

Preferred Qualifications:

You love working on interesting tech problems–if you’ve built your own personal or open source projects that’s great.
Good data engineering skills (a plus if you know the various tools in that space–you’ll help select which we use)
Dynamic programming and other algorithmic skills
While we’re based in LA, we’d also love to have someone in Honolulu; if you want to live there, we’d be happy to relocate you to HI (if not, we’ll travel there).

Benefits offered: