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Full-Time

Sr. Software Engineer

LeapYear

1-10 employees

Enables privacy-preserving analytics and machine learning on sensitive

Data & Analytics

Financial Services

Compensation Overview

$150,000 - $250,000

Senior

Remote in USA

Required Skills

Apache Spark

OCaml

AWS

Erlang

Haskell

Scala

CircleCI

Requirements

7+ years of professional experience writing production code
Track record of delivering high-quality product features on schedule
Experience working with data-at-scale compute platforms
Experience developing for on-premise enterprise deployments
Acquainted with and interested in functional programming (Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, Erlang, Scala)
Prior experience developing production-level Spark applications or machine learning platforms
Experience with ODBC/JDBC databases, AWS, CircleCI
Lifelong learners and mentors

Responsibilities

Develop greenfield systems and scale existing services to support internet-scale deployments
Own the full software development lifecycle - problem definition, design, development, testing, demoing, and supporting production use of the features you own
Partner with product management to define problems and identify iterative solutions
Balance immediate business objectives against long-term architectural vision
Contribute to an engineering-wide culture of code quality and shared responsibility for testing

LeapYear’s secure machine learning platform is deployed by some of the largest enterprises in the world across finance, healthcare, and technology.

Our technology ensures differential privacy, a widely recognized standard of data privacy that enables all data - including sensitive information - to be utilized for analytics, while providing mathematically proven privacy protection.

The LeapYear system is composed of a core set of components that allow private machine learning on data sets that can scale to petabytes. The system includes private algorithms for relational operations, statistical methods and machine learning. A data scientist accesses private data using a Python API. Administration is provided via a web-based GUI or an API.

LeapYear’s platform team builds the services that allow our product to integrate with complex enterprise environments and operate effectively on our customers’ most sensitive data.

The platform includes services for authentication, access control, logging, auditing and support for integration of data from a variety of data sources including SQL/NoSQL Databases, HDFS and S3. Queries are processed using Spark to support to enable fast, distributed processing of massive data sets. The services are primarily written in Haskell, with Python, Scala, and Java used as additional supporting languages.

We are looking for platform engineers that have a track record of developing enterprise-ready features for technical end users, including enterprise integrations, rigorous security, flexible deployment, and support for diverse data sources.

Recent technical challenges we’ve been working on

Developing a new query engine in Scala to support Snowflake as well as Spark compute backends.

Refactor distributed differential privacy algorithms to achieve terabyte and petabyte scale.

Using Haskell to implement enterprise-ready subsystems for authentication, permissioning, job management, and logging.

Extending the platform to support automated daily data updates.

For details on the specific responsibilities and requirements of this role, please see below.

Responsibilities

Develop greenfield systems and scale existing services to support internet-scale deployments.
Own the full software development lifecycle - problem definition, design, development, testing, demoing, and supporting production use of the features you own.
Partner with product management to define problems and identify iterative solutions
Balance immediate business objectives against long-term architectural vision
Contribute to an engineering-wide culture of code quality and shared responsibility for testing

Requirements

7+ years of professional experience writing production code
Track record of delivering high-quality product features on schedule
Experience working with data-at-scale compute platforms

Preferred

Experience developing for on-premise enterprise deployments
Acquainted with and interested in functional programming (Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, Erlang, Scala)
Prior experience developing production-level Spark applications or machine learning platforms
Experience with ODBC/JDBC databases, AWS, CircleCI
Lifelong learners and mentors

A Few of the Perks

Culture of teaching and learning
Competitive compensation package of salary and equity: $150,000 – $250,000, depending on skills and experience
Matching 401k plan
Generous health insurance plan
Disability, accident, and life insurance
Relocation support
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LeapYear

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LeapYear Technologies stands out for its unique approach to data privacy, offering a platform for differentially private machine learning, a concept rooted in advanced fields like cryptography and information theory. The company's culture is diverse and inclusive, fostering a collaborative environment where employees from various backgrounds - parents, pet-lovers, physicists, cyclists, teachers, Haskellers, and musicians - unite to solve complex problems. Furthermore, LeapYear's mathematical approach to privacy not only ensures data security but also allows clients to maximize the value of their data, creating new solutions and revenue streams without the need to move or modify data.

Company Stage

M&A

Total Funding

$53.2M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2015

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 25%

1 year growth

↓ -44%

2 year growth

↓ -80%

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family

Unlimited sick leave

Fees for work visas and green cards 100% covered

8 weeks fully paid parental leave

Remote friendly

Regular outings & quarterly team gathering

Stipends for relocation and workstation equipment

401K plan with 4% match

Disability, accident, and life insurance available

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