Senior Software Engineer, Pavilion

$162-173k

+Equity

SQL

React

AWS

JavaScript

Python

Django

Postgres

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office

Shareable contract search for governments

Job no longer available

Shareable contract search for governments

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseMarketplaceProcurement

Job no longer available

$162-173k

+Equity

SQL

React

AWS

JavaScript

Python

Django

Postgres

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseMarketplaceProcurement

Company mission

To improve the lives of all Americans by building technology that connects and empowers the people doing the work of procurement.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We’re recruiting a Software Engineer with strong backend skills to join our tight-knit, dynamic engineering team
4+ years of industry experience in web development across the stack. You’re an expert at delivering key projects on time with high quality. You have often led multi-engineer projects and maybe even teams
2+ years of professional experience with Python. You’re fluent with its patterns and best practices, and you’re experienced with at least one web framework (we use Django)
Some professional experience with AWS, SQL, and JavaScript. You’re ready to roll up your sleeves truly full-stack – whether that means scaling up servers in AWS, writing complex SQL queries against our Postgres DB, or building the frontend for a feature in React
A track record of being decisively impactful. You make pragmatic technical choices to ship code quickly while maintaining a high quality bar
An ownership mindset. You value autonomy and seek out ownership. You want to solve hard problems and you consistently deliver impact, even when things get ambiguous
Strong teamwork skills. You’re a great communicator, and you do your best work as part of an empathetic, high-performing team. You’re always learning and growing fast

What the job involves

You’ll help grow Pavilion’s marketplace and improve how public servants find and partner with businesses across the country. In particular, you will:
Collaborate with an experienced team of engineers, PMs, and designers to dream up and build high-impact features. You’ll meet government buyers in person and use what you learn to inspire new workflows in contract management, purchasing, and search
Build the world’s best database about who sells what to the government. Our contract database is the core of how Pavilion helps public servants, and you’ll spearhead major improvements that push us to the next level
Wrangle thorny technical problems. In the last year our team has tackled entity resolution, AI explainability, and the cutting edge of semantic search. You’ll master vector DBs, use AI to scale data acquisition, and push the boundaries of document understanding
Mentor team members, sharing your expertise to uplift our collective skills. You’ll drive improvements to our core backend technology, patterns, and best practices
Shape our shared engineering and company culture. Pavilion is still an early startup, so you’ll make an outsized impact – not just on our product, but on how we work as a team

Our take

Public procurement accounts for around $2 trillion per year, but the process is held back by outdated technology – something that Pavilion (formerly CoProcure) co-founder Mariel Reed learned all too well while working for the City of San Francisco.

In a bid to connect government agencies with private vendors, Pavilion offers a central marketplace where government buyers can access cooperative contracts with other public agencies and expedite the contracting process.

The company is currently focusing on growing its user base, and encouragement can be taken from the fact that it received substantial financial backing from Forerunner Ventures and has been rapidly scaling up its team.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Mar 2022

$22m

SERIES A

May 2020

$2.4m

SEED

Total funding: $26m

Company benefits

Equity options: We offer a higher than average equity package compared to companies in our stage

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Mariel Reed

(Founder & CEO)

Worked in Innovation & Strategy for the Mayor's Office of San Francisco before co-founding CoProcure. Previously worked at Coursera as Regional Manager for Asia, and as a Project Coordinator for the China Medical Board

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