ExTrac AI - Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Requirements
• Due to the compliance requirements of the US customers this role supports, applicants must be US nationals who are resident in the United States. • Working pattern - remote working located on the East Coast with the ability to travel to the DC area for the occasional collaborative working session with other East Coast Colleagues. • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience across backend development and cloud infrastructure, with experience owning features end to end in production. • Proficiency in building microservices using Go or Python. • Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation). • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating deployment workflows. • Working experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production. • Solid understanding of distributed systems, databases, and software engineering patterns. • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana). • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including clear technical writing and comfort working with a team based in the UK. • Able to work with regular overlap with UK hours (e.g. US Eastern mornings). • Desirable • Experience with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP or CMMC. • Experience with Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL. • Experience operating multi-tenant systems where data isolation is a hard requirement. • Experience working in software for defence, government, or other compliance-constrained environments. • Located in DC, Maryland, Virginia or Pennsylvania US states.
Responsibilities
• Cloud infrastructure and delivery • Build and maintain ExTrac's AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), working to the standards and conventions • Deploy, scale, and troubleshoot containerised workloads in production (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo). • Build and improve CI/CD pipelines so features land frequently and safely across multiple environments. • Pick up workstreams from the US infrastructure roadmap and own them through to delivery. • Backend service delivery • Take a well-scoped problem, shape the requirements with your lead, write a technical design, and ship it to production. • Develop and own Go and Python microservices that support data collection, processing, and querying. • Design and maintain APIs used by internal teams and customers. • Contribute to system design and architecture discussions, bringing evidence from what you have built and run. • Reliability, observability, and security • Instrument the services and infrastructure you own (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana) so you know when latency, cost, or reliability are slipping before customers do. • Take part in incident response and post-incident reviews, and turn what you learn into fixes that prevent recurrence. • Implement and maintain infrastructure and application controls that support US compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP and CMMC. • Treat security as an engineering fundamental, and make the case for addressing technical debt rather than living with it. • Comfortable supporting out of hours incidents via an on-call rota. • Working across the US and UK teams • Work closely with the Lead DevOps Engineer on US infrastructure priorities. • Partner directly with the UK backend team through code reviews, design discussions, and shared delivery across time zones. • Work with the analysts and product managers who use and shape our products, turning what they hit in practice into changes in the system. • You should apply if • You are a genuine generalist. You have built and operated production backend services in Go or Python, and you are just as comfortable in a Terraform module, a CI pipeline, or a Kubernetes manifest. • You can own a workstream end to end once the why is clear: you work out the what and the how, flag trade-offs and risks early, and deliver without close supervision. • You treat quality, security, and observability as fundamentals rather than optional extras, and you are interested in the discipline that regulated infrastructure requires. • You communicate clearly in writing and enjoy working in a distributed team, where good documentation and reliable follow-through matter as much as good code. • You want to work on things that matter. Our software sits underneath decisions taken by governments, defence organisations, and institutions operating where being wrong or late carries real consequences. • Where this role can take you • The work follows the problem, so you will build depth across backend services and infrastructure rather than being funnelled into one. • You will be part of our growing US Engineering team, with real influence over how it works as it grows. • Working alongside the Lead DevOps Engineer and the UK team, strong performance means larger areas of ownership, more architectural say, and a path toward a Lead Engineer role in a team or specialism. • ExTrac values IC and management paths equally, taking on reports is not the price of progression.
Benefits
• Target Base Salary $165K – $180K • ExTrac is a decision intelligence company used by governments, defence organisations, financial institutions, and corporates operating in complex, fast-moving environments. Our capabilities fuse curated data sources, domain-specific AI, and deep human expertise to transform information overload into clear, actionable foresight. • Our ambition is to become the analytical backbone that organisations rely on when geopolitical uncertainty becomes an opportunity or a strategic risk. More at extrac.ai. • Competitive salary based on skills and experience. • Participation in Employee Stock Options Programme • A generous benefits package, including medical health insurance and 401(k). • $500/year education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval. • 33 days of leave across the year inclusive of national holidays. • A role that combines mission-driven purpose with cutting-edge technology in a fast-growing company.
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