Software Engineer
RemoteAustin, Texas, United States
Austin, Texas, United StatesRemoteFull TimeSmall
Full TimeSmall
Job Summary
Architect, design, and implement scalable distributed systems featuring parallelized, computationally intensive modeling across flocks of lambdas and complex, asynchronous data processing using third-party APIs. Deliver services for intractable combinatorial analytics while maintaining strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with AWS tools like Lambda, RDS, and secrets management. Operate independently to balance software engineering best practices against business realities, prioritizing user safety and real value delivery. Join an early team with opportunities to expand into data science and security research.
Required Qualifications
- Strong programming skills in $LANGUAGES, ideally Python is in the mix
- A feel for moderately complex asynchronous systems and building linear user experiences on top of them
- Familiarity with AWS: Lambda, RDS, message passing, secrets management, etc.
- Care for software engineering best practices, including code reviews and documentation
- Care for business realities, which engineering best practices have to be balanced against
- Care for delivering real value to users, which in Reach's case means keeping people safe — this is the most important thing of all
- Ability to operate independently, act decisively, and adapt quickly
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