Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

You'll be a key early team member who owns the back end from day one, with opportunities to expand into data science, security research, and other areas if interested.

Stack : AWS, Postgres, Python (for Django, security research, and data science), open to other languages and tools

What will you do?

• Architect, design, and implement scalable distributed systems, like...
• Parallelized, computationally intensive modelling across flocks of lambdas
• Complex, asynchronous data processing and enrichment using third-party APIs
• Services for sometimes intractable combinatorial analytics  ARGH WHY WON'T THESE NUMBERS BEHAVE?!

What do you need?

• Strong programming skills in $LANGUAGES, ideally Python is in the mix
• A feel for moderately complex asynchronous systems and building linear user experiences on top of them
• Familiarity with AWS: Lambda, RDS, message passing, secrets management, etc.
• Care for software engineering best practices, including code reviews and documentation
• Care for business realities, which engineering best practices have to be balanced against
• Care for delivering real value to users, which in Reach's case means keeping people safe — this is the most important thing of all
• Ability to operate independently, act decisively, and adapt quickly