Senior Software Engineer, Data

Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc; Washington, New York, San Francisco (District of Columbia, NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role offers the chance to take ownership of significant application components while tackling complex challenges in a collaborative environment. You will work with cutting-edge technologies, including Python, Django, and React, to craft software solutions that enhance public safety. If you thrive on ambiguity and are passionate about delivering impactful software, this opportunity allows you to make a real difference in communities across the nation. Join a mission-driven team and help shape the future of technology for public service.

Benefits

Equity

Bonus

Health Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software development with a focus on cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of architecting and scaling distributed software systems.

Responsibilities

• Own large portions of the application and tackle complex challenges.
• Optimize search algorithms and scale the platform to handle terabytes of data.

Skills

Python

Django

Celery

Airflow

Kafka

React

Redux

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Machine Learning

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Equivalent Experience

Tools

AWS

Pulumi

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

San Francisco, CA / Washington, DC / NYC

Backed by leading investors from Silicon Valley, Peregrine supports public safety agencies across the country — from Los Angeles to Louisville to Atlanta — empowering public servants to improve operations and make better decisions in the moments that matter. Today, our technology is used by customers to serve more than 30 million Americans. We’re motivated to build technologies by partnering with our customers; we listen to their needs, learn from their experiences, and develop effective solutions to help them achieve transformational outcomes. Together, we’re creating safer communities, protecting privacy and civil liberties, and helping everyone in America thrive.

We are a team of public service entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving hard problems. We trust and help each other, and love diving into challenges together. We believe empathy, curiosity, integrity, courage, and excellent execution are key to building impactful software. If mission-focused work is your north star, come build with us. We’re just getting started.

Team

As an engineering team, we believe strongly that empathy improves our solutions. Seeing how people use the product is a priority and the way we get to the right answer. Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the variety of use cases that Peregrine serves.

The Data team consists of product-oriented engineers working at the intersection of high-scale data and thoughtfully designed UX. We own and architect the data platform powering Peregrine's user-facing applications, from our core data ingestion engine to the complex networking and pipeline tooling our Deployment Strategy team uses to deliver Peregrine to customers.

We value both ownership and collaboration—you will take full responsibility for major features and work closely with other engineers to drive them to completion. We believe that humility and empathy are essential for building the right solutions—you will collaborate directly with our deployment team and users as we iterate to solve their problems. Perseverance and creativity are crucial to executing our vision.

Role

We are looking for strong developers to join our small but growing team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll have vast ownership across our stacks, making decisions that will have an outsized impact for years to come.

Your scope of work will include a wide range of complex challenges, including scaling our platform to handle terabytes of data ingested from a variety of sources, efficiently querying and notifying users on this data in realtime, and optimizing search algorithms to serve results quickly.

Our stack is constantly evolving but based on a backend foundation of Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka; a frontend built in React, Redux, and Mapbox; data stores including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch; machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and with AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes as our underlying infrastructure.

About you

• Desire and drive to own large portions of the application from start to finish
• Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users
• Thrive on ambiguity and love taking on hard problems
• Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components

What we look for

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams
• Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components professionally and/or in the open-source community
• Ability to write robust, well tested, and well-designed code that frequently gets deployed to users
• Solid understanding of architecting and scaling distributed software systems
• Strong best practices in modern software development and comfort navigating large codebases
• San Francisco or Washington DC based candidates strongly preferred (hybrid work is acceptable)

Salary Range: $130,000 - $250,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, certifications or licenses, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here.

Peregrine Technologies is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and are a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.