Software Engineer, Via Separations
$80.8-110k
+ Annual performance bonus and equity options.
Office located in Watertown, MA
Reducing energy wastage in industrial processes
Be an early applicant
Reducing energy wastage in industrial processes
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$80.8-110k
+ Annual performance bonus and equity options.
Office located in Watertown, MA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To eliminate energy use in industrial processes, enabling pathways for a more sustainable, resource efficient future.
Role
Who you are
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
- Entry-level applicants with strong fundamentals are welcome; 3–5 years of professional experience is preferred
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript, with SQL skills
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Security Hub, Elastic Beanstalk, API Gateway, Amplify, or similar)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
- Experience with Docker, containerization, and container orchestration
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; comfort diving into an unfamiliar codebase
- Experience designing and working with HTTP REST APIs
- Familiarity with FastAPI or similar Python backend frameworks is a plus
- Familiarity with industrial data infrastructure, such as SCADA systems, data historians (e.g., Canary, OSIsoft PI), or OPC protocols
- Effective communication skills to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to balance competing priorities, manage ambiguity, and deliver results in a dynamic environment
- Ability to work from our Watertown, MA office at least 3 days/week
- Some travel (up to 5%) may be required
- U.S. work authorization is required for this role
- Via may consider an equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education, and experience to meet minimum qualifications. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to think broadly about your background and skill set for the role!
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Software Engineer to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure and back-end systems while contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of our codebase
- This role complements our existing developer’s expertise in database architecture and web application development — bringing deep AWS cloud knowledge and back-end systems thinking to our small, high-impact engineering team
- As part of our team, you will take ownership of our AWS infrastructure across multiple environments, debug and enhance existing Python and TypeScript codebases, and help establish the engineering processes and best practices that will allow Via to scale
- Your intellectual curiosity and willingness to roll up your sleeves and dig into a potentially unfamiliar problem will help our company grow its software platform and internal tooling while maintaining high standards of quality and reliability
- Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, IAM Identity Center, CloudTrail, CloudWatch) across development, staging, and production environments
- Debug, troubleshoot, and improve existing Python (FastAPI/SQLAlchemy) and TypeScript (React) codebases
- Build and maintain data pipelines (Python ETL) that power our real-time industrial monitoring platform
- Manage and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform)
- Establish and document software development best practices, testing strategies, and engineering workflows for the team
- Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into reliable, scalable software solutions
- Support system integrations and contribute to the continued development of our warehouse management and process monitoring products
- Report out on project status and manage timelines and deliverables for high-visibility initiatives
Our take
Heavy industry uses a lot of energy. The processes to separate chemicals, pulp, and petrochemicals waste $100 billion in fossil fuels each year due to inefficiency. This is what Via Separations aims to stop, with its new technologies for drastically reducing energy usage.
Most industrial processes for material separation use thermal processing. To simplify, the material is exposed to extreme heat until one component changes state. What Via Separations does is replace that heat for pressure. The pressure filters the materials, and business use 90% less energy for these process than they would for thermal separation. What’s more, the energy is electric and can be sourced from renewable materials - completely decarbonizing the supply chain.
Its grown quickly since its founding in 2020, and while its offering has been focused on the paper and wood pulp industry to date, it aims to use funding to scale the process to effective across a huge range industries - revolutionizing a massive market, and vastly impacting carbon emissions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2026
$36m
LATE VC
Jun 2023
$2.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $93.3m
Company benefits
- Equity options
- Time off for Company Holidays & Flexible PTO
- 401(k) Plan
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance for employees and their families
- Disability & Life Insurance
- 12 weeks paid Parental Leave
Company HQ
Watertown, MA
Leadership
Shreya Dave
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Lecturer at MIT.
Brent Keller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Postdoctoral Research Associate at MIT.
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