Software Engineer - Defense Tech

Overview

• Act as the technical owner for a mission and its associated customer engagements, working directly with operators, analysts, and technical stakeholders supporting national security missions.
• Serve as a senior technical counterpart to customer stakeholders — translating mission requirements into scalable software and ensuring capabilities are delivered reliably into production.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, platform engineering, and mission teammates while remaining a hands-on individual contributor.

The Opportunity

• Architect, build, and own software solutions deployed directly to customer environments in support of mission-critical use cases.
• Build software that helps users unlock value from large-scale data holdings, including text, multimedia, and geospatial datasets spanning more than 46 languages.
• Navigate and integrate with government IT ecosystems, ensuring solutions meet security, compliance, and operational constraints.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, engaging with senior technical leaders to understand mission needs and represent the team's technical approach.
• Own end-to-end technical delivery for mission workstreams, from requirements gathering and system design through implementation, deployment, and sustainment.
• Contribute hands-on code to improve product capabilities, performance, and scalability across customer use cases.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners — including engineers, product designers, and mission domain experts — to plan and deliver complex software features.
• Support government-facing technical artifacts as needed, including input to RFIs, RFPs, Statements of Work, and white papers.
• Travel up to 20–30% of the time to engage directly with mission owners and deliver capabilities in the field.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Full Stack Developer, including familiarity with relational databases (e.g., Postgres), caching technologies (e.g., Redis), object storage (e.g., S3), and modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React).
• Experience developing and deploying software compliant with the DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Experience interfacing with government-owned IT systems (e.g., data platforms, IdAM providers, SIEM, CDS).
• Experience working with government IT and program offices to scope technical requirements, architecture, and integrations.
• Experience working with end users to scope mission requirements, conduct user testing, and gain product feedback.
• Active U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI eligibility required.

Engagement Details

• Full-time, fully remote role — with a preference for candidates based in Hawaii or the San Diego, California area.
• Comprehensive benefits including health/dental/vision coverage, unlimited PTO, 401(k) match, lifestyle stipends, and fully paid parental leave.
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty, plus child and pet care reimbursement during required travel.