Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Tech Lead

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Non Equity Assistance on 2017-10

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

OpenMined is a foundation dedicated to creating open-source privacy software that empowers data owners to securely share their non-public data for research purposes. Their flagship product, Syft, enables researchers to perform remote data science without compromising data privacy, security, or intellectual property. By connecting researchers with sensitive data while protecting individual privacy and maintaining the integrity of the data, OpenMined aims to foster collaboration among organizations to enhance research outcomes across various scientific fields.

📋 Description

• Lead the ScreamingFace squad building an open-source Python toolkit and leaderboard for fusion models and benchmark evaluations • Own the squad's technical architecture end to end across design, engineering, and deployment • Deliver reliable technical capabilities and user experience from current implementation through product roadmap evolution • Drive production readiness through deployment monitoring, error handling, graceful degradation, and operational runbooks • Establish and mentor engineering best practices for modularity, security, reliability, scalability, code quality, and production delivery • Collaborate on core technology stack strategy and identify shared organizational primitives and standard interfaces • Partner with the product lead on realistic, scalable, and architecturally sound roadmaps • Own delivery of engineering quarterly goals and manage resources for consistent, high-impact delivery • Own team output, delivery, productivity, timeliness, morale, and alignment of team members with work • Establish robust tools, processes, and methodologies for high-quality software delivery • Provide hands-on technical leadership through individual development contributions, code reviews, pairing, and architectural guidance • Create technical documentation and processes supporting high velocity and knowledge transfer • Work closely with Kevin McDonough, Head of Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of personally building, shipping, and operating production systems at meaningful scale • Hands-on experience building production software with AI coding agents, such as Claude Code or Cursor, and helping a team manage agentic workflows • Strong Python 3.12+ proficiency • Experience with FastAPI services, async orchestration of concurrent model calls, typed SDK design and packaging, parsers, ASTs, and DAG execution • Distributed systems and API design experience, including design and evolution of interfaces consumed by multiple independent teams • Technical leadership experience introducing code review, testing, and CI/CD practices to one or more teams • Mentored or managed at least 2 engineers; direct reports not required • Comfort with ambiguity and resource constraints • Commitment, accountability, and ownership • Async-fluent with strong written communication and capacity to build high-trust working relationships across a 6hr+ time zone spread • Cross-functional collaboration and communication with engineering and non-engineering/non-technical stakeholders • Preferred: practical RAG and information retrieval experience with vector databases, retrieval pipelines, embedding strategies, and aggregation • Preferred: Vue 3 / TypeScript, Rust / Tauri, or cross-platform desktop app experience • Preferred: networking/P2P application experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit, offering the chance to make a meaningful difference in the world. • Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project that benefits a broad community. • Collaborative Global Team: Join a dynamic, international team that values collaboration and diversity. • Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the autonomy to structure your work hours around what best fits your life and productivity. • Fully Remote Work: Work remotely within the location requirements for this role. • Independent contractor engagement with an initial 12-month term expected to renew. • Roughly full-time commitment. • Self-set schedule. • Working-hour overlap with US Eastern business hours.

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