Senior Software Developer (Full Stack)
Senior Software Developer
The Company
Private Tech was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. Our CEO became passionate about privacy and security on mobile devices while running Palantir’s US Intelligence Community business.
We are building a cellular service provider that helps citizens (including those responsible for our nation’s security) regain their personal digital sovereignty, beginning with the devices in their pockets. We have raised money from XYZ, Andreessen Horowitz, and other top tier VCs, and are growing the team.
We believe that where we are, where we go, and whom we are with is among our most personal information and should be kept private. Privacy is not something you achieve by limiting yourself or by doing less, it is a set of features to be built so you can do more.
The Team
Our engineering team has decades of experience solving deeply technical problems up and down the stack. Engineering is the main effort of the business– building things that have never existed before is what we do. We seek builders and hackers, value creativity, and trust our engineers to do great things. You’ll report directly to our head of engineering, and enjoy fluid interactions with the rest of the engineering team and the broader company.
The Role
As a senior software developer you will own major components of the privacy-focused mobile stack we are building to power our cellular service. You’ll work directly with the head of engineering and the head of product to formalize the “what” and the “why” of your workstream, and will have enormous autonomy over the “how.”
To join our team, you should be excited to:
Dive into a well-funded but early-stage startup. We’re in a scrappy phase, be comfortable getting a little uncomfortable.
Reclaim some of the personal privacy we have all sacrificed as smartphone adoption has grown.
Flex your technical skills on hard, important problems with serious implications for consumer privacy and national security.
Be accountable to critical deadlines, and enjoy knocking them out of the park because you’re surrounded by a high performing team.
Push the envelope- we are using very new technology in novel ways.
Work in person! There are no facetime requirements or set hours here, and we all take work from home days. But our default work location is our DC or NY office, and we enjoy the informal culture and serendipity that in-person work enables.
We’re offering competitive salary, benefits, and equity with early-stage upside.
Qualifications
Required
5+ years of software engineering experience.
Working knowledge of modern, strongly-typed coding languages.
Passion for privacy and national security.
3+ years of professional experience with building production software.
Fluency in C++, Java, Golang or similar language.
Preferred
Familiarity with mobile technologies like eSIM, eUICC, and 4G/5G mobile core.
Interest in how hardware interacts with software on mobile devices.
Cloud infrastructure experience.
Native-cloud based orchestration experience like Terraform and Kubernetes.
Fluent in multi-threaded, asynchronous, and systems programming.
Our culture
We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech and the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.
We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.
We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.
We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people, and our benefits reflect that– top tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that people actually use).
We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.
How to apply
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