Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

You will build interactive geospatial applications and platform components to support national security missions and warfighter decision-making. This involves working across the full capability lifecycle, from data ingestion and analysis to building intuitive UI workflows and integrating agentic AI.

Requirements

Candidates must have 5+ years of professional software development experience with expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres. Experience with cloud platforms like AWS and a strong product-focused mindset are essential for this role.

Skills

• TypeScript
• React
• Tailwind
• Node.js
• Postgres
• Geospatial data analysis
• Full-stack development
• Cloud platforms
• AWS
• Agentic AI
• UI libraries
• Data extraction
• Data ingestion
• Mapping technologies
• Python

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Remote friendly
• WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement

About this role

Vannevar builds AI systems for the Department of War's most consequential missions. We have 125 deployments across every branch and combatant command spanning our core platform and five distinct products. An an example of how we work, when major combat operations started with Iran, we fielded a new product supporting 24/7 operations and 9,000+ users in three months.

How we build is our advantage: we deploy forward with the people who own the mission. Our engineers, product team, and CTO deploy forward to the point of friction, including visiting units in Ukraine. We focus on embedding directly with operational units supporting great power competition with China, combat operations with Iran, and counter-narcotics missions.
About the role
Vannevar is seeking an experienced full-stack engineer to build geospatial applications and platform components used by warfighters and intelligence analysts. You’ll develop tools that help users explore, analyze, and visualize geospatial data to make faster, better-informed decisions. Working alongside designers, engineers, subject matter experts, and operational users, you’ll turn complex intelligence requirements into intuitive workflows that support national security missions.
In this role, you will work in a small cross-functional team focused on delivering Geospatial awareness and analysis capabilities to defense customers engaged in strategic competition with near-peer adversaries. You will work across the entire capability lifecycle, including data extraction, ingestion, and analysis, building UI libraries and full stack applications, and integrating with agentic AI analyses.
Note: this role is also open to staff+ candidates.
What you’ll do
Build an interactive map application using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, and Postgres
Design and maintain a modular, flexible map component compatible with the rest of the Vannevar platform
Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and other engineers to understand user workflows and create 10x better solutions for their problems
Display and analyze high-volume geospatial data
What we look for
5+ years of professional software development experience
Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres
Experience developing on a cloud platform (AWS preferred)
Customer obsession and keen product intuition. You think in workflows and end-user experience, not just code.
Nice to have
Active Security Clearance or ability to obtain one and desire to travel to visit users, collect feedback, and debug issues
Expertise extracting meaningful and statistically valid insights from geospatial data
Experience handling large-scale geospatial data
Experience working with web-based mapping technologies
Experience developing AI-native products
Experience building and operating production web scrapers
Experience working in a user-facing product role
Experience developing in Python
What we offer
We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Remote friendly with WeWork access
Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
401(k) match
Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
Salary top-up during military reserve duty
Fully paid parental leave
Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
Vannevar is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!
IMPORTANT NOTICE
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.

About Vannevar

Defense and Space Manufacturing · 51-200 employees · headquartered in Palo Alto, California