Software Engineer

Position: Software Engineer

Location: Boston or NYC (On-Site)

About Pryzm

Pryzm is transforming how companies engage with the federal government. Today, federal procurement and BD is fragmented across disconnected workflows, siloed intelligence, and institutional knowledge locked in spreadsheets and inboxes. Pryzm brings together market intelligence, budget data, program visibility, and human insights into a single platform that helps teams navigate and win in the federal ecosystem. Pryzm is backed by Tier 1 investors including a16z, and is trusted by organizations across the national security and federal technology ecosystem. Our mission is simple: deliver the best capabilities to the missions that matter most.

The Role

We're looking for a full-stack software engineer to join a small, high-density engineering team building Pryzm's platform from the ground up. This is a 0-to-1 role in the literal sense: most of what you ship this year doesn't exist yet. You'll own features end-to-end with no handoffs between a “backend team” and a “frontend team” slowing you down. You'll work directly with our CEO, CTO, and founding engineers, sit close to real customers, and make architecture calls that are still running the platform a year from now, not decisions made for you by a platform team five layers up.

What You'll Do

• Own full-stack feature development end-to-end.

• Build in a true 0-to-1 environment: architect greenfield systems rather than patch someone else's legacy stack.

• Work across our core stack: React, TypeScript, Python/Django, Postgres, AWS, and applied ML/LLM pipelines

• Engage directly with customers in the field and turn what you learn into shipped product within days, not quarters

• Make real architecture and infra decisions

• Own outcomes, not tickets: you decide what “done” looks like and ship it

• Collaborate closely with a small team of sharp engineers and interface directly with the founding team

• Help build the technical foundation (CI/CD, data pipelines, ML infra) that the rest of the company builds on top of

What We're Looking For

• Genuine full-stack range, with comfort owning both the API/backend and the UI within the same project, not just one side

• Hacker energy: a demonstrated track record building things (startups, side projects, open source).

• Fluent in modern web fundamentals (React, TypeScript) and backend fundamentals (Python, SQL, REST/GraphQL); AWS and ML/LLM exposure a strong plus

• High agency: you default to shipping, not waiting for permission or a fully-specced ticket

• Comfortable with ambiguity: able to take a vague, real-world problem and turn it into a technical plan

• A bias toward speed without sacrificing code quality: you ship polished, production-ready code fast

• Excellent communicator, especially translating technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders and customers

• US Person required

Benefits

Pryzm offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Platinum healthcare: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage fully covered for employees and dependents

• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance fully covered, with the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents

• Relocation assistance available

• Unlimited PTO