Software Engineer

About us

Onebrief is a revolutionary platform for military staff workflows and operational planning. The software is designed to enable smarter, real-time decisions. With unparalleled collaboration features, AI-enhanced tools, and customizable workflows, Onebrief makes staffs superhuman. The expanding roster of customers includes COCOMs and Service Components worldwide.

Founded in 2017 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s workforce of 120+ spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software giants. Onebrief’s growth is exemplary, having raised $53M+ and counting from leading venture investors.

What you will achieve

We’re a fast growing startup looking for a senior engineer to help lead the way in making our (realtime OT / built on top of socket.io) application more performant and resistant to performance regressions. You’ll do this by developing/leveraging tools to automate performance testing and monitoring, collaborating with product teams to ensure performance considerations are addressed up front to reduce risk and helping them resolve problems when they do arise. You will also help our Test Platform team more broadly make our application more tested and more testable.

Core Technologies: React, Node.js, Typescript, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes

About you

You’re an experienced engineer who knows your way around the full stack. You love a challenge, from figuring out ways to performance test all aspects of our application, taking ownership of maintaining performance, and leveling up the engineers around you to understand performance concerns so you’re not a single point of failure.

We’re in the defense space, so we’re looking for someone excited about our mission, eager to contribute to a growing startup, and looking for an autonomous environment where everyone has a seat at the table. On top of that, as the first performance-focused engineer on our team you will be making a foundational and massive impact in the product and growth trajectory of the company.

Qualifications and Responsibilities

Required:

• You are a trained and experienced (3+ years) full-stack engineer, who’s worked extensively with React and Node.js

• Experience performance testing/tuning React and RESTful APIs.

• Creatively implementing shift left methodologies that demonstratively led to higher code quality

Nice to haves:

• Experience performance testing/tuning SQL queries.

• Experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines that make use of

  • Github Actions (or similar) declarative pipelines

  • Docker, Kubernetes

• Most importantly, you are a true Onebriefer:

  • You are obsessed with creating value for real users

  • You are ambitious, scrappy, and a creative problem-solver

  • You learn quickly, work iteratively, and naturally seek collaboration

  • You approach your work with integrity, intellectual honesty, and a low ego

  • You communicate frankly, clearly, and succinctly

  • You thrive as a self-starter, embracing autonomy and ambiguity

  • You are a U.S. citizen