Staff Software Development Engineer, Kantata
$128-165k
+ Company Wide Bonus Plan
Cloud based project management software
Be an early applicant
Cloud based project management software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$128-165k
+ Company Wide Bonus Plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable organizations of any size to successfully manage and scale their people, projects, revenue, and profitability.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of functional experience, including at least 5 years in a technical leadership role
- Expertise in system design, architecture, and technical strategy for large-scale products
- Advanced proficiency in relevant programming languages, frameworks, and tools
- Experience ensuring performance, security, and reliability in complex systems
- Strong communication skills, able to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Demonstrated commitment to innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering best practices
- Proven ability to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize system performance, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of engineering solutions
- Graph Database Expertise:
- Skills: Deep experience with modern graph database systems (e.g., Neo4j, TigerGraph, AWS Neptune, ArangoDB, JanusGraph)
- Data Engineering (Pipelines & ETL):
- Skills: Expert-level knowledge of building reliable, scalable data pipelines (using tools like Kafka, Spark, Airflow) to ingest and transform messy, unstructured data (like SOWs, email transcripts, project docs) into a structured graph format
- Natural Language Processing (NLP):
- Skills: Practical experience with techniques like Named Entity Recognition (NER), Relationship Extraction (RE), and Text Classification to automatically extract entities and relationships from text documents and map them to the Knowledge Graph schema
- Vector Databases (RAG Foundation):
- Experience with vector embeddings and vector stores (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Chroma) necessary to build the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) components that sit on top of the Knowledge Graph
- MLOps / MLOps Platforms:
- Experience in deploying, monitoring, and scaling ML models in production (e.g., using SageMaker, MLflow) is critical for serving the intelligent insights derived from the graph
- Agentic Systems & Orchestration:
- Skills: Direct, hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying AI agents and multi-agent systems. Proficiency with modern agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Microsoft AutoGen, CrewAI, Haystack) and the ability to define tool integration (APIs) and complex decision-making loops for autonomous execution
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer at Kantata, you will drive complex, cross-functional technical projects from conception to deployment, defining technical strategy and architecture for major systems and products
- You’ll make impactful technical decisions across multiple teams, mentor other engineers, and foster a culture of engineering excellence
- This role is pivotal in shaping our technology direction, solving critical challenges, and ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and secure
- You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders, champion innovation, and embody Kantata’s core values
- Technical Strategy & Leadership: Drive technical decisions that impact multiple teams or the entire engineering organization. Identify and solve the most critical and ambiguous technical challenges
- System Design & Architecture: Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems that serve as foundations for products. Create architectural blueprints and technical roadmaps
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements. Influence product direction based on technical feasibility and opportunities
- Innovation: Research and evaluate new technologies, tools, and methodologies. Drive adoption of engineering best practices and standards
- Code & Technical Contributions: Write high-quality, exemplary code that serves as a model for others. Debug and resolve the most complex technical issues. Contribute to open-source projects or internal tools that benefit the broader engineering team
Our take
Kantata is a business management software aimed at the professional services industry. This SaaS platform has been designed to meet the needs of a modern workforce, providing services such as employee time tracking, project management, and resource allocation.
The company's purpose-built technology includes a suite of features, such as a resource optimizer that helps managers allocate the right people to the right project for the correct amount of time. It also includes a private social network for users to share information with peers in the industry. Kantata already has several profitable tie-ups with essential business software such as Salesforce, helping it outpace rivals.
As more organizations in professional services invest in resource management solutions, the industry is awash with companies all competing for this business. These include industry heavyweights Basecamp, Zoho Projects, and ClickUp. Born from the merger of Mavenlink and Kimble Applications, Kantata is set to see accelerated growth as it focuses on further development of its comprehensive platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2019
$48m
SERIES E
Nov 2016
$39m
SERIES D
Total funding: $111.5m
Company benefits
- Group Health Insurance with Coverage Options for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Life Insurance
- Voluntary Insurance Options Such As Auto, Home, Legal, and Pet Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Voluntary Commuter Benefit Options
- 401K + Company Match to Save For Your Future
- Flexible Work Options - Remote or Hybrid
- 15 days of Paid Time Off, Plus Two Additional Days With Each Year of Employment
- Sick/Wellness Time Off
- 9 Paid Holidays + Floating Holiday
- Volunteer Time Off
- Top Performers Employee Recognition Program
- Philanthropic, Social, and Wellness Events Through KantataLife
- Reimbursement for Wellness Applications (including Kindle, Headspace, Peloton)
- Monthly Remote Stipend
- Employee Assistance Program
Company HQ
East Irvine, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Roger Neel
(Senior Business Advisor)Former Technical Advisor at The Bold Italic and Director Strategic Partner Solutions at InQuira. BA in Economics and Computer Science from Cornell.
Ray Grainger
(Executive Chairman & Founder)Former EVP Global Services and Strategic Partnerships at InQuira and Global Managing Partner at Accenture. BSc in Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.
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