At Defense Unicorns, we make software a strategic deterrent with solutions that promote data independence, portability, and efficiency. Backed by Sapphire.
About the role
Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help drive our transformation from legacy, on-premises software to a modern, cloud-native platform. In this role you will play a key part in designing and building our next-generation, cloud native maintenance planning and execution tool. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years (senior) experience with software engineering
- Experience building a software tool with core focuses on software lifecycle and management
- Expert level proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, TypeScript, Python) with the ability to write idiomatic, testable code
- Strong understanding of system design, API development, workflow orchestration (Argo Workflows preferred), relational databases, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
- Deep knowledge of database design, schema design, indexing, and query optimization
- Past experience leading a team through the decomposition of a complex monolithic application design into small, independent services that communicate with lightweight APIs
More about this role
Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help drive our transformation from legacy, on-premises software to a modern, cloud-native platform. In this role you will play a key part in designing and building our next-generation, cloud native maintenance planning and execution tool. You'll be joining Defense Unicorns’ US Navy team and be responsible for creating and owning end-to-end project delivery, working with stakeholders across multiple vendors, platform engineering teams, and government organizations. You will work closely with the government project lead and be responsible for shaping the technical requirements of this effort, driving the project from development, user acceptance testing, production transition, and sustainment.
- Partner with software engineers, data architects, platform engineers, and a wide variety of stakeholders to translate ambiguous product requirements into technical solutions
- Create optimized transformations to clean, enrich, and model data, utilizing cloud-native tools
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance, maintaining metadata and lineage
- Help refactor and modernize existing on-prem systems into distributed,...
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