Senior Software Engineer

About The Company

Our client is a fast-growing SaaS company at the forefront of data privacy and security innovation. Their powerful Data Privacy Governance platform utilizes patented AI technology to revolutionize customer data protection, ensuring compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations for Fortune 100 organizations and mid-market enterprises. Their unified consent and preference management APIs enable seamless data handling across multiple channels, setting new standards in the industry.

The company's mission is to contribute to a better society by advocating for proper data protection legislation, responsibly safeguarding customer data, preserving individual privacy rights, and enhancing trust between businesses and consumers through greater transparency.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our client's team in Falls Church, VA. Founders are engineers, and the majority of the team members are engineers. The team is flat in hierarchy and you will likely have more autonomy over your code than what you are previously accustomed to. You won't be just fixing bugs or maintaining existing codebase - you will be building exciting new features, analyzing metrics, re-designing complex interfaces, and making important technical and product decisions.

What You'll Do

• Write clean, quality, and secure code based on product requirements
• Build interactive web application, APIs, and algorithms
• Optimize performance and browser compatibility
• Ensure technical decisions support our client’s goals of quality, scalability, reliability, security and high performance
• Work with a team of engineers and help meet deadlines
• Lead, mentor, and guide other engineers
  
  

What You Bring

• 10 years of experience building web applications and enterprise software
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field
• Prior work in a SaaS software platform as a full-stack or back-end developer
• Hands-on programming experience with Javascript, ReactJS, JQuery, Bootstrap, Redis, and building RESTful APIs, AJAX
• Solid experience with LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or LEMP stack
• Skilled in building highly scalable web applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)
• Experience with SQL stored procedures, database architecture, micro services, message queues (such as RabbitMQ)
• Ability to build scalable, load-balanced web applications
• Excellent command line skills on LINUX
• Knowledge of container technology (docker, etc.) and cloud services (IaaS, PaaS), AWS, Elastic Search
• Experience using third-party testing tools and frameworks and working with version control systems such as GIT, Bitbucket, etc.
• Ideally, experience with a security-tech or privacy-tech company
• Experience with NoSQL/Hadoop/Hive/HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc. is a plus
• Hands-on experience with Python, Java or AI Algorithms is a plus
• Contribution to open-source projects a plus
• Hands-on experience with encryption algorithms and vulnerability assessment tools is a plus
• Ability to work 3 days/week in an office in Falls Church, VA
  
  

Key Attributes for Success

• Strong technical expertise
• Team collaboration and ability to mentor other engineers
• Making important technical and product decisions
• Comfortable with a dynamic work environment
  
  

Why Join?

• Base salary: $100,000 per year (negotiable based on experience)
• Bonus: $25,000 per year
• Gold benefits package: full health, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, 401(k)
• Work-life balance, hybrid schedule and paid vacation
• Career growth (Director of Engineering)
• Proven product-market fit with Fortune 100 customers
• Founders are engineers, and the majority of the team members are engineers
• Impactful work that shapes the future of data privacy
• Collaborative company culture and supportive, inclusive environment for all employees
  
  

Interviewing Process

• Stage 1: 30-min virtual interview with the Founder (General fit)
• Stage 2: Technical interview with Founder (Technical assessment)
• Stage 3: 60-min on-site interview in the office (Cultural fit/Final)
• Reference and Background Checks: conducted after successful interviews
• Job Offer: provided to the selected candidate
  
  

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity, or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Compensation Range: $100K - $125K