Senior Backend Software Engineer, WireScreen
$165-200k
+ Equity
2-4 days a week in office
Software platform for mapping business relationships
Job no longer available
Software platform for mapping business relationships
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$165-200k
+ Equity
2-4 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To equip businesses, regulators, and consumers with unparalleled insights.
Role
Who you are
- Good communication skills are key in this role as we work closely with our research team of experts in international business and regulation
- We have a lot of challenging problems to solve and are looking for someone with a positive outlook and a can-do attitude
- 5+ years as a backend or full-stack software engineer
- Proficiency with relational databases and SQL
- A generalist approach, and an open mind to trying new ways of solving problems
- A passion for building software to solve business and product problems
- Strong technical skills that enable you to deliver a quality product, quickly to market
- An acumen for working with others to break down problems into smaller deliverables with intermediate milestones
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical teammates
- A growth mindset and positive attitude
Desirable
- Strong Python programming skills
- Experience with large-scale data processing engines like Apache Spark
- Experience working with datasets of 10s of millions of entities, especially as a knowledge graph or similar format
- Experience building and scaling data pipelines
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders on data-related problems alongside data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll work collaboratively to design and build our next-generation platform and product features
- You'll face diverse and interesting problems, from modeling graph relationships between tens of millions of entities to augmenting datasets via new data pipeline stages to delivering data to our web UI and other products
- Beyond delivering product features that could 10x our revenue—responsibilities also include scaling our systems to handle massive data growth, optimizing software performance, and pushing the boundaries of what’s technically possible
- We believe in teamwork, collaboration, and helping each other to reach our goals
- Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you’ll have an excellent opportunity to grow quickly in your career as you develop a breadth of skills alongside a highly motivated, capable team
- Work alongside a product manager, UX designer, and other engineers to deliver valuable new product features.
- Collaborate on our technical vision
- Advocate for and prototype new technology solutions that solve real problems
- Build scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems able to handle more data, more queries, and more insights
- Design platform APIs upon which multiple product features depend
- Continuously and incrementally improve our engineering processes, documentation, tools, and systems
Our take
In today's complex digital business landscape, the need for more informed investment decisions, precise supply chain monitoring, tracking cross-border transactions, and mitigating evolving global risk management has never been more critical. Traditional methods of gathering and analyzing this information tend to be time-consuming and often fall short of providing the depth necessary for confident decision-making.
Enter WireScreen, a company on a mission to redefine the way global businesses confront these challenges. Fueled by venture capital support, WireScreen is dedicated to delivering intelligent solutions that allow businesses to make smarter investment choices and gain enhanced transparency within their supply chain.
With its founders boasting over a decade of corporate analysis experience and a coveted Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism, the duo is well-equipped for the task. Nevertheless, WireScreen, founded in 2019, faces the competitive legacy players in the market and grapples with limited online visibility, primarily relying on its affiliated digital magazine. The company's journey to establish itself as a leader in risk management is undoubtedly an ongoing endeavor, marked by its dedication and potential for substantial industry impact.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2022
$14m
SERIES A
May 2022
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $28m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary, equity, and role trajectory: Experience rewarding work and rapid growth potential within a swiftly scaling company
- FSA, HSA, & 401(k): Save for retirement and healthcare expenses with 401(k), HSA, and FSA options.
- Paid time off: Take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer company-wide paid holidays as well as flexible vacation time.
- Medical, dental, and vision: We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Flexible in-person culture: Our hybrid roles allow flexibility to work from home while also enjoying in-person collaboration.
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
David Barboza
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who previously worked at The New York Times, David has more than 15 years of experience covering China and using corporate records.
Lynn Zhang
(Co-Founder & COO)A former financier who worked in private equity, Lynn has spent more than a decade analyzing corporate data. She studied chemistry and finance in China and Japan.
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