What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Front End position at ALTANA?
Altana is the world's first Value Chain Management System, a collaborative, public-private network that enables customers to take command of their extended supplier and distribution networks from raw material origins to the sale of finished products. By applying artificial intelligence to the world's largest body of supply chain data, Altana reveals these previously opaque global networks and powers workflows across them. Customers like Boston Scientific, L.L.Bean, Maersk, US Customs and Border Protection, and the UK Department of Business and Trade use Altana to build secure, resilient, efficient, and sustainable global value chains.
We have built a fundamental understanding of how the world's economy works, and the implications for global resiliency, sustainability and opportunity are enormous. Backed by leading investors and used by the world's most important organizations, Altana powers a new era of globalization founded on a shared source of truth on the global supply chain.
This is a lofty mission, and our success depends on building a diverse, global team and fostering an environment in which it can thrive. We operate in accordance with our values : we embrace reality as we work to change it; we focus on value creation, not capture; we foster diversity and embrace difference; and we go on offense. When you join Altana, you'll be joining a vibrant, collaborative team working together to solve complex problems with the potential for global societal impact.
The Opportunity at Altana
The Engineering team is looking for talented Software Engineers to help build out our vision. You'll work closely with our Back End Engineers and Data Scientists on projects to analyze and observe world-scale datasets, write code that can scale to produce never-before-seen insights, and construct APIs to deliver our product vision.
Your Responsibilities
- Build products that enable the world's leading governments, logistics providers, and enterprises to move towards safer, more resilient, and more inclusive global commerce
- Develop new user facing features for the Altana product suite including workflows for network exploration, risk assessment, graph analysis, and transaction screening
- Design and build reusable, well tested code and libraries for data exploration, visualization, and analysis
- Collaborate closely with product and design to prototype, develop and launch new features and enhancements to customer experience
- Analyze and propose technical solutions to invent, enable, and enhance our product offerings
- Be responsible for automating, testing, and deploying your work
- Collaborate with fellow engineers and data scientists across the organization
- Write TypeScript and JavaScript UIs for the web
- Use Next.js / React / Typescript to develop data visualizations and graph insights
About You
Nice to have, but not required
Technologies we love to use at Altana
This role is a Hybrid role, based in the United States, with the option to work from one of our hubs in New York City, Boston, San Fransisco or Washington D.C.
Why it's great to work at Altana
At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.
