Senior Backend Engineer, Alethea
$155-215k
+ Stock options
Combatting online disinformation & manipulation
Job no longer available
Combatting online disinformation & manipulation
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$155-215k
+ Stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To protect organizations from harm caused by disinformation, misinformation, and social media manipulation.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Computer Science or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in designing and implementing distributed systems, preferably in a data-intensive environment
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Python
- Proven track record of developing and maintaining high-impact systems
- Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team
- In this role, you will play a critical part in designing, developing, and maintaining the complex distributed systems that power our data acquisition and processing pipelines
- Design and implement high-performance distributed systems for data extraction and ingestion
- Build scalable and fault-tolerant systems that can handle large data volumes and high throughput
- Contribute to the development of our data storage and retrieval infrastructure, ensuring data integrity and availability
- Collaborate with other engineers to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and system limitations
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of our engineering practices
- Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in distributed systems and big data
- Champion continual process and practice improvement to ensure efficient and high-quality software delivery
- Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to a dynamic business environment
- Growth Mindset: Flexible attitude with a growth mindset and the ability to rapidly action feedback
- Curiosity and Drive: Independent thinker with an insatiable curiosity and unstoppable drive to succeed
- Comfortable with a fast-paced start-up environment that involves regular iteration
Our take
The rise of online disinformation, misinformation and manipulation campaigns is a growing and concerning problem, and one that can be difficult to combat. Alethea hopes to make this easier for organizations with its Artemis platform, which was built to monitor, detect, assess and mitigate disinformation attacks.
Using billions of data points, the platform leverages multichannel analysis to detect risks and deal with them before any damage is done. By deciphering which risks pose a real threat, and which can be ignored, it empowers cybersecurity teams to focus their efforts in the right places.
Through this approach, users can proactively defend themselves against the weaponisation of information. As this becomes a more prominent problem, Alethea has no shortage of potential clientele, while 2023 funding enabled it to grow its teams and triple its revenues across 2024.
Steph
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $30m
Company benefits
- Stock options (negotiated based on experience)
- Healthcare at the gold-tier level, dental, and vision is fully funded by the employer, plus 50% of dependent coverage is provided by the employer
- Unlimited vacation, sick leave and office closure between Christmas and New Year’s, plus extended holidays at Thanksgiving and the 4th of July
- Employer sponsored 401k with a 3% match
Company HQ
Hillcrest Heights, MD
Leadership
Lisa Kaplan
(Founder & CEO)Fellow of the National Security Institute, Member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Public Relations, Member of the Board of Visitors of Colby College and Associate of the Argonne National Laboratory.
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