Senior Software Engineer, WireScreen

Backend

$165-210k

+ Equity

Python

Django

Terraform

Spark

MapReduce

Snowflake

Parquet

FastAPI

Senior and Expert level

New York

2-4 days a week in office

Software platform for mapping business relationships

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Software platform for mapping business relationships

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceAnalyticsMarket researchSaaSData Analysis

Be an early applicant

$165-210k

+ Equity

Python

Django

Terraform

Spark

MapReduce

Snowflake

Parquet

FastAPI

Senior and Expert level

New York

2-4 days a week in office

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceAnalyticsMarket researchSaaSData Analysis

Company mission

To help global businesses make smarter investment decisions, track their supply chains, monitor cross-border transactions, and respond to emerging global risks.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of experience as a software engineer
Significant experience (3+ years) working on the backend and have delivered at least one application or service from design to production
Strong proficiency in Python
Experience at least one prior startup
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical teammates
BS in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Desirable

Experience with large-scale data processing engines like PySpark/Apache Spark/MapReduce/Databricks/Snowflake
Experience with any of the following technologies: asyncio, gRPC, Django, FastAPI, Terraform, Parquet file format
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 Software Engineer (Backend), 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, API, and other products
Responsibilities also include scaling our systems to handle massive data growth, optimizing software performance, and ultimately delivering product features that could 10x our revenue
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
Build scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems able to handle more data, more queries, and more insights
Design and build platform APIs upon which multiple product features depend
Work alongside a product manager, UX designer, and other engineers to deliver valuable new product features and datasets
Advocate for and prototype new technology solutions that solve real problems
Continuously and incrementally improve our engineering processes, culture, 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 HQ

Civic Center, New York, NY

Leadership

David Barboza

(Co-Founder)

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)

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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