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Salary: USD 160,000 - 190,000 / annual
VIA is a mission-critical software company enabling organizations to share and analyze sensitive data securely at scale. Headquartered in Boston, VIA serves the Department of War, Fortune 50 companies, and critical infrastructure organizations globally with decentralized architecture, agentic AI, and military-grade security.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key technical contributor architecting and building secure, scalable software that protects and shares critical data. You'll work with advanced Web3 and quantum-resistant technologies to solve complex analytics and digital security challenges.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architect and implement secure, reliable, scalable microservices applying deep software architecture principles
- Integrate VIA's Web3 components and privacy-preserving technologies into cutting-edge platform features
- Define and drive adoption of end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes from concept through deployment
- Lead creation and optimization of CI/CD automation pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment
- Develop comprehensive automated testing strategies including unit and integration tests
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance of deployed applications
- Serve as subject matter expert in privacy and security, providing technical leadership
- Communicate complex software designs and architectural choices to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Collaborate across cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful project delivery
- Explore and integrate advancements in privacy, cryptography, and distributed systems
Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or science; 5+ years full stack or backend development experience; strong cloud-based microservices development expertise; proficiency with service mesh (Istio), zero trust architecture, observability, RESTful APIs (FastAPI), OAuth2/Auth, asymmetric/symmetric encryption, data structures, algorithms, SQL/NoSQL databases, in-memory storage, parallel processing, message brokers, distributed task queues, Docker, and Helm charts.
Preferred: experience leading Agile developer teams, proven on-time delivery of quality projects, technical advocacy, problem-solving, documentation skills, familiarity with IETF RFCs, blockchain systems, and zero-knowledge proofs.
