Remote Backend Engineer, Data Collection Platform

Vannevar

United States

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Remote friendly with WeWork access
Unlimited PTO
401(k) match
Wellbeing stipend
Military reserve duty salary top-up
Fully paid parental leave
Child care reimbursement
Pet care reimbursement

Job summary

Vannevar builds mission software for national security and defense, owning web scrapers, data pipelines, and third-party integrations. You will ensure complete, correct, and timely data despite upstream unreliability, partnering with mission teams, product managers, and engineers to balance quality, scale, and cost.

The role emphasizes designing robust data collection systems, monitoring data completeness, and shaping the data platform to support evolving mission requirements across multiple

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of backend engineering experience, including production web scraping, data ingestion, ETL, or third-party integrations.
  • Proficiency writing production software in Python and familiarity with relational databases and API design.
  • Ability to maintain data quality across large, changing datasets.
  • Experience designing systems that tolerate upstream failures and changing external interfaces.
  • Ability to make thoughtful tradeoffs among reliability, scalability, performance, maintainability, and cost.
  • Strong communication of technical decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate production web scrapers, third-party integrations, and data pipelines.
  • Design for schema changes, rate limits, authentication, and partial failures.
  • Implement reliable retry, backfill, deduplication, idempotency, and replay mechanisms.
  • Define and monitor data completeness, correctness, freshness, duplication, and provenance.
  • Develop APIs, databases, and shared services for collection workflows.
  • Collaborate with mission teams, platform teams, and product managers to evaluate sources and support new data requirements.
  • Influence architecture, technology selection, and engineering standards for collection systems.

Skills

Backend engineering
Python
APIs
Relational databases
ETL
Data quality
System design
Clear communication

Tools

PostgreSQL
REST APIs
Git

Job description

Vannevar builds mission software for national security and defense, owning web scrapers, data pipelines, and third-party integrations. You will ensure complete, correct, and timely data despite upstream unreliability, partnering with mission teams, product managers, and engineers to balance quality, scale, and cost.

The role emphasizes designing robust data collection systems, monitoring data completeness, and shaping the data platform to support evolving mission requirements across multiple

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