Software Engineer - Backend
Swoop Technologies10 months ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$125k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop backend services and features that interface with SwoopOS, frontend applications, and infrastructure systems.
- Design and build SDKs for internal and external users and support third-party application development.
- Author reusable Python packages for functionality shared across services.
- Improve service availability and service-level performance, particularly for production Kubernetes workloads.
- Tune data storage configurations for scale and near-real-time availability in a streaming architecture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
- At least 3 years of backend software development experience writing scalable code and/or modern APIs using databases and distributed data sources.
- Proficiency in Python, including a strong understanding of data structures and data models.
- Experience with Kubernetes in a production environment.
- Understanding of basic software security standards.
- Active US security clearance or willingness and ability to be sponsored for a US security clearance.
- Experience with asynchronous Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Solr, or Rust is a bonus.
- Experience handling multimedia data structures is a bonus.
Benefits
- Hybrid position based in Minneapolis/St. Paul or Washington, DC, requiring in-office work at least 3 days per week.
- Travel requirement is 5–20%.
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About Swoop Technologies
Swoop Technologies builds SwoopOS, a secure distributed operating system for coordinating equipment and data across militaries and critical infrastructure. Its platform includes the Valhalla SDK for deploying autonomous and distributed systems and the Surf browser for operations, targeting defense, energy, communications, and manufacturing operators at the digital edge. The privately held company sells enterprise software and tooling for edge orchestration and data utilization, rather than cloud-only solutions.