About the position
Backed by leading investors from Silicon Valley, Peregrine supports public safety agencies across the country — from Los Angeles to Louisville to Atlanta — empowering public servants to improve operations and make better decisions in the moments that matter. Today, our technology is used by customers to serve more than 30 million Americans. We’re motivated to build technologies by partnering with our customers; we listen to their needs, learn from their experiences, and develop effective solutions to help them achieve transformational outcomes. Together, we’re creating safer communities, protecting privacy and civil liberties, and helping everyone in America thrive. We are a team of public service entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving hard problems. We trust and help each other, and love diving into challenges together. We believe empathy, curiosity, integrity, courage, and excellent execution are key to building impactful software. If mission-focused work is your north star, come build with us. We’re just getting started.
Responsibilities
- Take full responsibility for major features and drive them to completion.
- Create novel capabilities that span the platform and optimize subsystems for performance improvements.
- Re-architect the Elasticsearch cluster to improve response times.
- Own strategic initiatives that deliver industry-leading platform performance and capabilities.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams.
- Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components professionally and/or in the open-source community.
- Ability to write robust, well-tested, and well-designed code that frequently gets deployed to users.
- Strong understanding of product development and navigating large codebases.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, Kafka, React, Redux, Mapbox, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
- Desire and drive to own large portions of the application from start to finish.
- Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users.
- Thrive on ambiguity and love taking on hard problems.
- Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components.
Benefits
- Salary Range: $130,000 - $250,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable).
- Commitment to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- Celebration of diversity and equal opportunity employment.
