Staff Software Engineer

Enigma Labs

Enigma Labs is the trusted destination for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs. Our community-driven platform exists to deliver a valuable, real-time aerial awareness capability and safe space for people to share anomalous sightings experiences. Enigma aims to be an open-minded and data-driven leader in UAP research by building novel tools and technologies to support a crowdsourced sighting network. We are motivated by curiosity and optimism about the unknown, and will follow the science and wherever it leads

The Role:

As Senior Software Engineer, you will be a member of Enigma's small-but-mighty core engineering team. You will be broadly responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining Enigma's backend services. In addition, you should “raise the bar” of technical excellence for those around you, helping to level-up the team through knowledge-sharing, mentorship and technical rigor.

Key Responsibilities & Outcomes:

• Own the design, code, deployment, and maintenance of at least two core features on our platform, within six months. To do so, you will become a master of our codebase, and can be relied upon as an expert that others across the team look to.
• Tackle complex technical challenges — ensuring system scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Serve as a mentor to other engineers, meaningfully up-leveling those around you through documentation, code reviews, technical discussions, etc.

Requirements:

• Proven 5+ years experience as a Backend Software Engineer in top-tier teams
• Experience with API design, software pattern design, service design, distributed systems and message queues, observability patterns
• Experience with some subset of: golang, Python, SQL, kubernetes, GCP, Docker, Terraform
• Experience with Data Engineering and ELT preferred
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks like React
• Ownership mindset: You take initiative and have a bias to action when it comes to scoping out work, communicating your plan clearly to a small team, and taking responsibility for implementation & maintenance.
• Product mindset: You will be expected to think strategically to prioritize what's important for users.
• Early stage startup experience: You should be nimble and comfortable working in ambiguity and without the structures of a larger company