Senior Software Engineer

• As an engineering team, we believe strongly that empathy improves our solutions
• Seeing how people use the product is a priority and the way we get to the right answer
• Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the variety of use cases that Peregrine serves
• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our core engineering teams
• You’ll work cross-functionally with design and product management to build systems that are robust, scalable, and user-centered
• Our teams tackle a range of challenges, from enabling real-time user collaboration on detailed maps to building high-scale backend architecture for ingesting billions of data points
• We value both ownership and collaboration—you will take full responsibility for major features and work closely with other engineers to drive them to completion
• We believe that humility and empathy are essential for building the right solutions—you will collaborate directly with our deployment team and users as we iterate to solve their problems
• Perseverance and creativity are crucial to executing our vision
• We are looking for strong developers to join our small but growing team
• As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll have vast ownership across our stacks, making decisions that will have an outsized impact for years to come
• You’ll take on some of our most complex challenges—like designing scalable permission systems to manage access to terabytes of data across thousands of organizations
• You’ll help build intuitive controls that let organizations decide what data to share, when to share it, and with whom
• You’ll also architect frameworks for secure collaboration, enabling seamless partnerships while maintaining data sovereignty and compliance
• And you’ll create advanced sharing mechanisms that strike the right balance between openness and security to unlock the full potential of cross-organizational collaboration
• Our stack is constantly evolving but based on a backend foundation of Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka
• A frontend built in React, Redux, and Mapbox; data stores including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
• Machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and with AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes as our underlying infrastructure

Benefits

• Health insurance: Enjoy top-notch health, dental, and vision insurance. Your health matters
• Unlimited PTO: Assume responsibility for how much time you take off. Trust is everything
• Competitive 401k: Leverage a Peregrine-sponsored 401k plan. And think of your future
• Wellness stipend: Use Peregrine’s wellness stipend to focus your body and mind
• HSA: Set aside money to pay for qualified medical expenses with a HSA
• Parental leave: Because we want to support the Peregrine parents out there
• Professional development: Access a range of professional development courses and resources
• Recreational perks: Enjoy a whole host of travel and leisure discounts, and explore new things

• Thrive on ambiguity and love taking on hard problems
• Desire and drive to own large portions of the application from start to finish
• Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users
• Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components
• Ability to write robust, well tested, and well-designed code that frequently gets deployed to users
• Strong best practices in modern software development and comfort navigating large codebases
• Located in NYC and open to working in office
• 4+ years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams
• Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components professionally and / or in the open-source community
• Solid understanding of architecting and scaling distributed software systems
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience