Software Engineer (Front-end Product Experiences)

• As an engineering team, we believe strongly that empathy improves our solutions
• Seeing how people use the product is a priority and the way we get to the right answer
• Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the variety of use cases that Peregrine serves
• The Platform team consists of detail-oriented engineers who drive innovation, enhance performance through technical excellence, and focus on results
• We own the performance of Peregrine’s mission-critical infrastructure as well as the high-risk, platform-spanning initiatives that create unmatched new capabilities
• We value both ownership and collaboration—you will take full responsibility for major features and work closely with other engineers to drive them to completion
• We believe that humility and empathy are essential for building the right solutions—you will collaborate directly with our deployment team and users as we iterate to solve their problems
• Perseverance and creativity are crucial to executing our vision
• We are looking for experienced software engineers to join our growing platform team
• As a Software Engineer on the platform team you’ll have vast ownership across our stacks, making decisions that will have an outsized impact for years to come
• You’ll push the boundaries of what a data platform can do by creating novel capabilities that span the platform and optimizing subsystems to achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in performance
• You will work on projects such as re-architecting our Elasticsearch cluster, taking response times from seconds to milliseconds; and owning other strategic initiatives that deliver industry-leading platform performance and capabilities
• Our stack is constantly evolving but based on a backend foundation of Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka; a frontend built in React, Redux, and Mapbox; data stores including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch; machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and with AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes as our underlying infrastructure

Benefits

• Health insurance: Enjoy top-notch health, dental, and vision insurance. Your health matters
• Unlimited PTO: Assume responsibility for how much time you take off. Trust is everything
• Competitive 401k: Leverage a Peregrine-sponsored 401k plan. And think of your future
• Wellness stipend: Use Peregrine’s wellness stipend to focus your body and mind
• HSA: Set aside money to pay for qualified medical expenses with a HSA
• Parental leave: Because we want to support the Peregrine parents out there
• Professional development: Access a range of professional development courses and resources
• Recreational perks: Enjoy a whole host of travel and leisure discounts, and explore new things- Desire and drive to own large portions of the application from start to finish
• Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components
• Thrive on ambiguity and love taking on hard problems
• Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users
• 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
• Located in NYC and open to working in office
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 2-5 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