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Backend Engineer, Collection Platform

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Backend Engineer, Collection Platform in USA

  • Vannevar
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate production web scrapers, third-party integrations, and data pipelines.
  • Design systems for schema changes, rate limits, authentication requirements, and partial failures.
  • Build 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 on data sources and 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 Python experience and familiarity with relational databases and API design.
  • Experience maintaining 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 technical communication and effective cross-functional collaboration.
  • U.S. Person status and ability to obtain a security clearance.

Benefits

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

Vannevar

Vannevar Labs builds AI-driven mission software for U.S. defense, intelligence, and national security agencies, used for targeting, planning, and decision support. It sells government-focused software products powered by large adversarial data sets, including an agentic AI platform that models ad...

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