Sr. Software Engineer

Zeitview is building an AI-first Insights platform, and the team values autonomy, continuous learning, and collaboration across Product, Architecture, and Operations. This onsite role in Mountain View, CA combines backend scale with frontend delivery on a unified technology stack, with room to experiment and grow while you help ship high-impact features across multiple customer verticals.

What you’ll do

• Architect, build, and scale frontend and backend systems that support core functionality of the Insights platform.
• Take products and systems from early exploration through launch readiness.
• Participate in technical design reviews and code reviews, contributing to shared engineering knowledge.
• Mentor junior engineers and help shape a culture of learning and experimentation.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, and Operations to deliver features with measurable impact.
• Own problems end-to-end and proactively fill in gaps in your knowledge to get work across the finish line.
• Actively learn and apply AI agentic coding tools to accelerate development.

What you bring

• Demonstrated mastery of agentic development, including the ability to delegate meaningful work to coding agents end-to-end, form strong opinions about context and specification quality, and share workflows others have adopted.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with full stack specialization preferred, especially in a backend Java/Spring stack.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures, including EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, and API Gateway.
• Strong proficiency in PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, and optimization.
• Proven ability to build and scale RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Front-end experience with React and other modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Understanding of event-driven architecture (ActiveMQ, Kafka, or similar).
• Production experience with NoSQL databases such as Elasticsearch (or similar).
• Familiarity with CI/CD, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with GeoSpatial technologies including PostGIS, vector and raster tiling, and DeckGL.

Compensation and benefits

• $210,000 - $225,000 USD per year
• Annual bonus and equity
• Multiple medical insurance plans, including options with an HSA and 100% coverage of the premium for you and your dependents
• 100% paid dental and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Autonomy and upward mobility
• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where your voice matters

Day-to-day tools and environment

You’ll work in a fast-paced Agile environment across a modern, diverse tech stack, using tools including IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and AI-development tools like Copilot and Claude. On the infrastructure side, you’ll work with AWS services (S3, Lambda) and Terraform, databases including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch, and schema management with Flyway. Observability tools include Sentry and Kibana, messaging includes ActiveMQ and Kafka, and API work may involve GraphQL. For geospatial workloads, tools include GDAL and PostGIS, plus vector tile servers. You’ll also use JIRA and Confluence for project and knowledge management, and Auth0 for authentication.