Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Vannevar is seeking an experienced full-stack engineer to build geospatial applications and platform components used by warfighters and intelligence analysts. You’ll develop tools that help users explore, analyze, and visualize geospatial data to make faster, better-informed decisions. Working alongside designers, engineers, subject matter experts, and operational users, you’ll turn complex intelligence requirements into intuitive workflows that support national security missions.

In this role, you will work in a small cross-functional team focused on delivering Geospatial awareness and analysis capabilities to defense customers engaged in strategic competition with near-peer adversaries. You will work across the entire capability lifecycle, including data extraction, ingestion, and analysis, building UI libraries and full stack applications, and integrating with agentic AI analyses.

Note: this role is also open to staff+ candidates.

What you’ll do

Build an interactive map application using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, and Postgres

Design and maintain a modular, flexible map component compatible with the rest of the Vannevar platform

Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and other engineers to understand user workflows and create 10x better solutions for their problems

Display and analyze high-volume geospatial data

What we look for

5+ years of professional software development experience

Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres

Experience developing on a cloud platform (AWS preferred)

Customer obsession and keen product intuition. You think in workflows and end-user experience, not just code.

Nice to have

Active Security Clearance or ability to obtain one and desire to travel to visit users, collect feedback, and debug issues

Expertise extracting meaningful and statistically valid insights from geospatial data

Experience handling large-scale geospatial data

Experience working with web-based mapping technologies

Experience developing AI-native products

Experience building and operating production web scrapers

Experience working in a user-facing product role

Experience developing in Python

What we offer

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Remote friendly with WeWork access

Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year

401(k) match

Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends

Salary top-up during military reserve duty

Fully paid parental leave

Child and pet care reimbursement during travel