Founding Platform Engineer - Own End-to-End Architecture

Buckstop Industries Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Buckstop Industries Inc. is hiring early engineers to report to the CTO and shape the platform’s architecture from design to production. You will own end-to-end deliverables and directly impact customers and the planet through a high-standard engineering approach.

We hire across software, data, and ML tracks. You should have strong Python/SQL skills, cloud experience, and a commitment to quality; hybrid work with DC/DMV or Seattle is preferred, with remote options for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or a relevant language for your track - production-quality code, not just scripts.
• Solid SQL fundamentals: complex queries, schema design, and performance intuition.
• Experience shipping and operating systems in a cloud environment.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship (e.g., H-1B) is not available for this role.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build - Design purpose-built systems with clear responsibilities. Write production-quality code, participate in design reviews, and hold the bar on what ships.
• Own your work end-to-end - From design through deployment and operation. Before something ships, you define what "healthy" looks like and instrument it accordingly. We build it, we run it.
• Champion quality - Quality gates exist because our customers make financial decisions on our outputs. Raise the bar over time; challenge a process that slows us down without adding value.
• Collaborate and iterate - Work directly with the CTO and product team to understand requirements. Write design documents for consequential decisions; move fast on everything else.
• Leverage AI tooling - We use AI aggressively to accelerate engineering work. You are responsible for every line that ships under your name, regardless of how it was generated.
• Document constantly - Updating internal documentation is part of the definition of done. If you change how something works, write it down.
• Surface issues early - Say something as soon as you know something. Over-communicate. The cost of a cascading failure caused by silence is always higher than the cost of raising a flag early.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Buckstop Industries Inc. is hiring early engineers to report to the CTO and shape the platform’s architecture from design to production. You will own end-to-end deliverables and directly impact customers and the planet through a high-standard engineering approach.

We hire across software, data, and ML tracks. You should have strong Python/SQL skills, cloud experience, and a commitment to quality; hybrid work with DC/DMV or Seattle is preferred, with remote options for the right candidate.