Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

About this role

## About ExTrac

ExTrac is a decision intelligence company used by governments, defence organisations, financial institutions, and corporates operating in complex, fast-moving environments. Our capabilities fuse curated data sources, domain-specific AI, and deep human expertise to transform information overload into clear, actionable foresight.

Our ambition is to become the analytical backbone that organisations rely on when geopolitical uncertainty becomes an opportunity or a strategic risk. More at [extrac.ai](http://extrac.ai).

## The Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer based in the Washington DC area to work across ExTrac's backend services and the infrastructure they run on. This is a generalist role by design: one week you might be shipping a Go or Python service, the next hardening a deployment pipeline or Terraform module.

## What the job involves

Cloud infrastructure and delivery

• Build and maintain ExTrac's AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), working to the standards and conventions
• Deploy, scale, and troubleshoot containerised workloads in production (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo).
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines so features land frequently and safely across multiple environments.
• Pick up workstreams from the US infrastructure roadmap and own them through to delivery.

Backend service delivery

• Take a well-scoped problem, shape the requirements with your lead, write a technical design, and ship it to production.
• Develop and own Go and Python microservices that support data collection, processing, and querying.
• Design and maintain APIs used by internal teams and customers.
• Contribute to system design and architecture discussions, bringing evidence from what you have built and run.

Reliability, observability, and security

- Instrument the services and infrastructure you own (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana) so you know when latency, cost, or reliability are slipping before customers do.
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