# Backend Engineer, Collection Platform at Vannevar

- Company: Vannevar
- What the company does: Vannevar builds agentic AI for 21st-century conflict, pre-trained for national security missions and delivering decision advantage. Backed by General Catalyst and Felicis.
- Company website: https://www.vannevarlabs.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-03-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vannevarlabs/jobs/5092167007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vannevar-backend-engineer-collection-platform/

## About the role

At Vannevar, we build mission software for the national security, defense, and intelligence communities. The Collection Platform team builds the systems that acquire mission-critical data from websites, APIs, feeds, and third-party platforms.

## What they're looking for

- You have 4+ years of backend engineering experience, including production web scraping, data ingestion, ETL, or third-party integrations
- You write production software in Python and are familiar with relational databases and API design
- You know how to maintain data quality across large, changing datasets
- You have designed systems that tolerate upstream failures and changing external interfaces
- You can make thoughtful tradeoffs among reliability, scalability, performance, maintainability, and cost
- You communicate technical decisions clearly and work well across engineering, product, and mission teams

Tags: Backend Platform Engineering