Software Engineer — Backend & Data Pipelines

Vital Lyfe; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vital Lyfe, a hardware-software startup in Torrance, CA, is seeking a Software Engineer to build the software behind a high-demand consumer product. You’ll own backend data pipelines, services, and MES integrations, collaborating with hardware and operations to scale production.

You’ll work with TypeScript, Python, React, and AWS, shipping end-to-end features from design to production. We value ownership, quick learning, and the ability to debug in a codebase you didn’t write, with a mission to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 2 to 4 years building software professionally.
• Experience building backend services or APIs in production.
• Strong programming fundamentals and comfort learning new systems quickly.
• Deep experience with 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 ownership mindset and follow-through.
• 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 MES and handheld app for floor teams.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Backend development

Data pipelines

Production experience

Code debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

React

Serverless

Job description

Vital Lyfe, a hardware-software startup in Torrance, CA, is seeking a Software Engineer to build the software behind a high-demand consumer product. You’ll own backend data pipelines, services, and MES integrations, collaborating with hardware and operations to scale production.

You’ll work with TypeScript, Python, React, and AWS, shipping end-to-end features from design to production. We value ownership, quick learning, and the ability to debug in a codebase you didn’t write, with a mission to