Senior Software Engineer, Posit
Connect
Annual profit-sharing bonus available
Open source and enterprise ready tools
Job no longer available
Open source and enterprise ready tools
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Annual profit-sharing bonus available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Role
Who you are
- Technical: you have a strong technical background with a track record of building successful products. In this position, you’ll primarily work with Go - experience building production systems written in Go, particularly working with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration tools, is a plus
- Product minded: while you enjoy solving technical challenges and mentoring others, the best part is doing that in the service of delighting your product’s users. You prioritize shipping fast, collecting feedback, and iterating quickly. Experience collaborating with Data Scientists or working with data tooling is a plus
- Results driven: you are focused on achieving measurable results aimed at providing value to your customers
- Curious: you are driven to learn new things and continuously improve. You bring fresh ideas and creative solutions to complex problems
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly skilled and innovative Senior Software Engineer to join our Posit Connect engineering team
- Posit Connect delivers value to businesses by empowering data scientists to rapidly deploy custom reports and applications
- These artifacts, written in Python, R, Quarto, and more, allow data scientists to tell stories with data and solve real-world problems
- Connect solves the challenges of putting code into production, such as environment management and authentication, without requiring constant intervention from administrators
- We are seeking a motivated, execution-focused engineer who can leverage their expertise in building backend systems to drive results and contribute significantly to the Connect engineering team
- Taking a feature from development to release and owning ongoing technical decisions, starting by understanding the customers’ needs and providing a delightful experience for users
- Ensuring continued product quality through thoughtful design and test automation
- Mentoring other engineers and helping them deliver critical architecture improvements to support a rapidly growing product and business
- Providing technical leadership and contributing to the strategic direction of our backend architecture
- Elevating engineering standards through code reviews, constructive feedback, and actively engaging in technical discussions
- Prioritizing enhancements and bug-fixes to ensure that we are always delivering the most value to our customers
- What you will teach us:
- Sharing your expert knowledge in some of the following: Go, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Python, R, and cloud technologies
- Your elevated standards for engineering craftsmanship, raising the overall bar on our team
- Reducing risk while improving delivery and knowledge sharing
- What you will learn:
- A deeper understanding of how data science workflows, particularly those that rely on cloud computing and integrations
- An appreciation for the tools and methodologies used by data scientists
- How Posit’s products empower our customers to do effective data science
- Within one month, you will…
- Get to know everyone on the product team and become familiar with our current software development practices
- Work through our onboarding guide and get familiar with our products
- Ship code changes routinely
- Within three months, you will…
- Feel comfortable navigating the codebase and understand how things fit together
- Present your work to the team and internal stakeholders
- See your code changes reflected in our current product versions
- Within twelve months, you will…
- Plan features and drive their development
- Share your expertise and insights with team members, contributing to the collective knowledge and skill set of the engineering team
- Have significantly contributed to the product
Our take
In a data-driven world, having reliable and accessible software is key to optimizing functionality. Posit provides R and Python-based tools to help improve the speed and quality of analysis, created "for data scientists by data scientists", with uses in data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Posit's unique approach to creating universal data processing capabilities is helping to create new pathways in the digital age. It uses a unique blend of social and commercial endeavours to satisfy the demand for comprehensive data processing, and many of the company's products, including Posit Team for enterprises, are open sourced and accessible to all. Those looking for more advanced products can access programs such as Posit Server Pro and Shiny Server Pro for workspace management.
Given its unique approach to data management, entities from Liberty Mutual to Walmart and NASA have been incorporating Posit's technology. The company has received considerable amounts of funding, which has been used to expand its services, in 2024 launching the beta of its next-gen data science development environment. As the demand for open-source services continues to grow, Posit's effort to create data management services for all should continue to capture market share.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2021
$161.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $161.3m
Company benefits
- 100% remote (or come in to one of our offices in Seattle or Boston)
- Pick your hardware — we want to equip you with what you need to do your best work
- All our full time employees are given an allowance to outfit their home office
- We have a flexible environment with a “take what you need” vacation policy
- Positive, passionate culture working with a world-class team committed to data science and the R language
Company HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
Leadership
JJ Allaire
(CEO)Founded Allaire, where they served as CEO and then Chairman. JJ also founded Onfolio, which was acquired by Microsoft. They founded FitNow in 2008 before starting RStudio in January 2010.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 10 more jobs at Posit