Senior Backend SWE - NYC ( Hybrid but in-office) - *Multiple Openings
About Us:
WireScreen is a Sequoia-backed startup building a sophisticated corporate intelligence platform to help multinational companies, asset managers, and regulators track and monitor their supply chains and business partnerships. Our leadership team includes a Pulitzer Prize winner and senior engineers who helped scale Google, Peloton, and Compass. We’re seeking a talented Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our growing Engineering team. If you're passionate about making a significant impact on global investment decisions, supply chain monitoring, and risk response, we want you on board.
Your Role: Senior Backend Engineer
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll work closely with other teammates to design and build our next-generation platform and product features. The problems you’ll face are diverse and interesting, from modeling graph relationships between tens of millions of entities to augmenting datasets via new data pipeline stages to delivering data to our web UI and other products. However, the responsibilities are not only to deliver the product features that will be 10x our revenue but also to scale up those systems to handle that data, improve how our software operates, and push the envelope of what’s possible.
Good communication skills are key in this role as we work closely with our research team of experts in international business and regulation. We believe in teamwork, collaboration, and helping each other to reach our goals. We have a lot of challenging problems to solve and are looking for someone with a positive outlook and a can-do attitude. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you’ll have an excellent opportunity to grow quickly in your career as you develop a breadth of skills alongside a highly motivated, capable team.
What You'll Do at WireScreen
- Work alongside a product manager, UX designer, and other engineers to deliver valuable new product features.
- Collaborate on our technical vision.
- Advocate for and prototype new technology solutions that solve real problems.
- Build scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems able to handle more data, more queries, and more insights.
- Design platform APIs upon which multiple product features depend.
- Continuously and incrementally improve our engineering processes, documentation, tools, and systems.
Who You Are/You Have:
- 5+ years as a backend or full-stack software engineer.
- Proficiency with relational databases and SQL.
- A generalist approach, and an open mind to trying new ways of solving problems.
- A passion for building software to solve business and product problems.
- Strong technical skills that enable you to deliver a quality product, quickly to market.
- An acumen for working with others to break down problems into smaller deliverables with intermediate milestones.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical teammates.
- A growth mindset and positive attitude.
Ideally, You'll Have:
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Experience with large-scale data processing engines like Apache Spark.
- Experience working with datasets of 10s of millions of entities, especially as a knowledge graph or similar format.
- Experience building and scaling data pipelines.
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders on data-related problems alongside data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists.
Why WireScreen? Why Now?
We are seeking candidates who aspire to excellence; colleagues who are curious, passionate, and determined to build something innovative. We are eager to learn new things and collaborate on projects that aspire to change the way people understand the architecture of global business and its role in shaping our society and the environment.
*The base pay range for this position is 165-200k per/year and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
NO 3RD PARTY AGENCIES AT THIS TIME PLEASE
What We Do
At WireScreen, we’re not just building a corporate intelligence platform, we are reinventing how multinational corporations, governments and law enforcement agencies make critical decisions.
In this era of heightened geopolitical scrutiny, it’s never been more challenging or consequential to understand who you are doing business with. We are building the platform that puts this actionable intelligence just a few clicks away.
Our sophisticated software platform helps shine a light on global supply chains, surface regulatory exposure, and provides insights that drive due diligence and compliance. We eliminate the noise and mundane aspects of corporate data and illuminate the stories and relationships that matter.
Why Work With Us
We’re simultaneously building a powerful global intelligence platform and an award-winning weekly digital news magazine, which reports on one of the biggest stories of our time. Join our team to make an impact and help bring transparency to complex dealings of global businesses. Learn and work alongside talented colleagues on this exciting journey.