Backend Data Engineer for Scalable Manufacturing

Vital Lyfe; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vital Lyfe, a California-based tech company redefining water autonomy, seeks a Software Engineer to own substantial backend and data systems. You’ll build data pipelines from manufacturing lines, extend cloud services, and ship end-to-end solutions across MES and handheld apps.

You’ll work with TypeScript, Python, React, and AWS, and join a small team as the first full-time software hire, shaping development practices and product direction in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 2 to 4 years building software professionally.
• Experience building and maintaining backend services or APIs in production.
• Strong programming fundamentals and comfort learning new systems quickly.
• Deep experience with at least one modern language, such as Python or TypeScript.
• Working knowledge of SQL and structured data.
• Comfortable in a codebase you didn’t write, and able to debug problems on your own.
• Practical and curious, with a habit of taking ownership and following through.
• Able to break down a problem, work through it, and know when to ask for help.
• Excited to work where software and hardware intersect.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines that bring test and production data off the manufacturing line, validate and store it, and turn it into views our teams use to track yield and failures
• Build, extend, and maintain backend services and system integrations on our established cloud platform, keeping data reliable across the company
• Own what you build end to end: design, test, ship, debug, and keep it running in production
• Help shape design and implementation decisions that advance our technical roadmap
• Build and improve internal tools that give our engineering and operations teams real-time visibility into production and manufacturing workflows
• Contribute across the rest of our software, including our manufacturing execution system (MES) and the handheld app our floor teams use

Skills

Backend APIs

Data pipelines

Python

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

React

ERP/MES systems

Job description

Vital Lyfe, a California-based tech company redefining water autonomy, seeks a Software Engineer to own substantial backend and data systems. You’ll build data pipelines from manufacturing lines, extend cloud services, and ship end-to-end solutions across MES and handheld apps.

You’ll work with TypeScript, Python, React, and AWS, and join a small team as the first full-time software hire, shaping development practices and product direction in a fast-moving startup.