Backend Engineer – Collection Platform

🕒 July 13

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Vannevar Labs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

💰 $12M Series A on 2021-08

Consulting • Logistics • Defense

Vannevar Labs is a defense technology company focused on digital intelligence to support non-kinetic missions aimed at deterring and de-escalating conflicts. The company specializes in developing advanced machine learning techniques to ensure access to mission-relevant data, building tools to counter malign influence, and enhancing maritime domain awareness using open-source and targeted data collection techniques. Vannevar Labs is dedicated to quickly iterating with national security partners to meet urgent and dynamic security challenges, positioning its solutions to address the strategic competition for legitimacy and influence in the modern geopolitical landscape.

📋 Description

• Build and operate production web scrapers, third-party integrations, and data pipelines • Design for schema changes, rate limits, authentication requirements, and partial failures • Build reliable retry, backfill, deduplication, idempotency, and replay mechanisms • Define and monitor data completeness, correctness, freshness, duplication, and provenance • Develop APIs, databases, and shared services for collection workflows • Partner with mission teams, platform teams, and product managers to evaluate sources and support new data requirements • Influence architecture, technology selection, and engineering standards for collection systems

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience, including production web scraping, data ingestion, ETL, or third-party integrations • Production software development in Python • Familiarity with relational databases and API design • Ability to maintain data quality across large, changing datasets • Experience designing systems that tolerate upstream failures and changing external interfaces • Ability to make tradeoffs among reliability, scalability, performance, maintainability, and cost • Clear communication of technical decisions and ability to work across engineering, product, and mission teams • U.S. Person status is required • Ability to obtain a security clearance • Nice to have: experience with distributed task processing, workflow orchestration, or large-scale data pipelines • Nice to have: experience monitoring data quality and investigating production regressions

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance • Remote friendly with WeWork access • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year • 401(k) match • Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends • Salary top-up during military reserve duty • Fully paid parental leave • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel