Senior Software Engineer — Architect of AI & Scalable Systems

Tagup; Virginia (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tagup is a Series A defense technology company delivering logistics decision advantage with next‑generation AI. You will architect the core platform to ingest, process, and act on billions of data points from the physical world, while collaborating with PhD-level data scientists and former operators.

This role emphasizes ownership, rapid decision-making, and building open standards across API design, data modeling, and deployment.

Qualifications

• Ability to architect scalable systems that evolve with customer needs.
• Ability to balance scale and data complexity across distributed services.
• Willingness to mentor junior engineers and set coding standards.

Responsibilities

• Build Tagup AI Agent to optimize NL queries and time-series storage for sub-second latency.
• Design and implement high-performance REST APIs and microservices for Manifest.
• Ingest high-frequency sensor data via robust ETL pipelines from diverse industrial assets.
• Improve observability with monitoring, alarms, and CI/CD pipelines for 99.99% uptime.

Skills

Ownership

Bias for action

Mentoring

Tools

Python

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

Pandas

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Langchain

Claude

Torch

MCP

Pyro

Job description

Tagup is a Series A defense technology company delivering logistics decision advantage with next‑generation AI. You will architect the core platform to ingest, process, and act on billions of data points from the physical world, while collaborating with PhD-level data scientists and former operators.

This role emphasizes ownership, rapid decision-making, and building open standards across API design, data modeling, and deployment.