The Senior Web Architect role is a generalist position that will have significant responsibility for designing, building, and maintaining the architecture, services, integrations, and algorithms that make the lives of our customers and colleagues easier. You will collaborate with everyone in the company and learn or own all levels of the web stack.

Our tech is based on what’s best for the platform, so you will get to learn about the latest web tools, evaluate their utility in the platform, and implement old and new tools alike across the entirety of our infrastructure. This is a multi-disciplinary role that will influence Tangram’s tech landscape in ways large and small.

Starting Salary Range: $120,000 - $160,000 USD

You’ll be a successful candidate if...

You enjoy cross-discipline collaboration You take the time to evaluate technology options and tradeoffs, and feel confident in your decisions after evaluation You care about contributing to product direction, planning, roadmaps, and postmortems You establish and uphold best practices (for development, testing, security, continuous integration, etc.) You love to explain big ideas without technical jargon (We are a remote and async-oriented company, so coherent writing is critical.) You believe in inclusivity when working with colleagues with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. You have exceptional time management, including the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects at once. You love to learn and can implement what you’ve absorbed.

Examples of Things You’ll Work On

Ingest, transform, manage, and secure large datasets Queue, load-balance, run, and monitor computer vision algorithms in the cloud Create and update web UI, visualizations, charts, and data presentation Display algorithm results on webpages and serve them via API/webhook Setup, debug, and optimize CI/CD processes and developer tools used across the company Integrate with third-party APIs and SaaSes (e.g. for identity, email, monitoring, payment processing, cloud infrastructure, and more) Contribute to the Tangram Visions blog with relevant, technical content for a robotics and perception-savvy audience Must-Have Technical Qualifications

In our experience, people with the below experiences would thrive in this role. Our tech stack is shown in parentheses, where applicable; experience with a specific tool is not required for this role.

2 years of professional experience or the equivalent with relational databases and writing SQL (PostgreSQL) DevOps tools and techniques such as CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and Jamstack (AWS, DigitalOcean, GitLab, docker, kubernetes, terraform) backend web programming (Supabase and Python) Familiarity with HTML/CSS/JS (Svelte) and building websites for modern browsers Comfortable working on Linux and using the command-line Proficiency with git. We routinely juggle many branches, resolve conflicts, rebase, squash, and revise. We love informative commit messages and a clean git history. Benefits and other Perks...

We’re a startup, aren't there supposed to be pool tables and stuff? We have an ever-growing list of items that we’re looking to provide, and here’s what we currently offer.

We value your health and well-being: Tangram Vision covers up to $400 a month of medical plan costs (chances are we have a plan that will be 100% covered for you), and 100% of dental, vision, and ancillary plans (i.e. life insurance, short-term and long-term disability). Employees who choose a medical plan with a health savings account (HSA) also receive a $2,000/year HSA contribution Staff have an unlimited PTO balance, with a recommended 4 weeks off per year (1 week per quarter). Remote First, Fully Connected: Tangram Vision is a fully remote company. We have no corporate office, and our first five employees span four timezones! Company retreats every three to four months in fun, unique locations. Weekly team-wide calls keep us connected and grounded. Open virtual co-working comms every afternoon. We understand the importance of financial planning: We offer competitive salaries and equity grants. Employees can choose to adjust their compensation for more/less salary vs. more/less equity.

How to Apply:

Submit your resume and cover letter In your cover letter please include how you heard about this role and why you’re interested in this position No phone calls please. Tangram Vision will contact qualified candidates directly.

Interview Process:

For this role, the interview process will consist of the steps listed below. The first four steps will be conducted over video calls using Google Meet.

Phone screen (20 minutes): We learn more about you and your experiences, and we take time to share more about us, Tangram Vision. Technical video interview (1 hour): We learn more about your technical knowledge and cover concepts that are important for this role. Hands-on coding problem (2 hours): We provide a problem and you write the code to solve it! You use your own computer/IDE/environment and can choose from 2-3 different programming languages. We'll be available for the duration to answer any questions you may have. Final interview (1 hour): We meet with finalists to learn more about your work style and what you're looking for in your next role, team, and leadership. Reference check: You send us work references and we talk to them.