Responsibilities
Lead customer engagements end to end: integration with government data and systems, designed and built under real constraints
Turn ambiguous requirements into technical plans, and deliver multi-week engagements without close supervision
Build custom workflows that drive adoption, usage, and engagement with key customers
Debug production issues in customer environments, including government cloud
Document design decisions that hold up under scrutiny, and review code across the team
Make sound speed-versus-robustness trade-offs under program constraints
Mentor engineers and bring what you learn in the field back to the product team
Desired Skills
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing or systems-integration work owned end to end
Depth in Python and/or TypeScript and SQL, data integration against messy sources, and system design under constraint
Experience deploying and debugging in environments you don’t control: government cloud, on-prem, or otherwise constrained
Judgment on trade-offs, and the ability to defend a design decision to a skeptical customer engineer and to your own team
Experience mentoring engineers and reviewing code across a team
Willingness to travel to customer sites (military installations across the U.S.)
U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance
Bonus Points
Military service or experience delivering software into defense programs. Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply
Familiarity with service supply, maintenance, and readiness data systems
Experience with accreditation processes and impact-level government environments
An active security clearance
You don’t need to check every box. If the mission and the work resonate, apply.
Salary
The estimated salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $180,000 annually. We strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package that aligns with our employees’ experience and qualifications. Our primary objective is to attract and retain top talent, and we firmly believe in compensating our employees fairly for their invaluable contributions.
As a rapidly expanding technology company, we extend part-ownership to all team members through an Employee Stock Option Plan. Additionally, we offer comprehensive health insurance benefits, access to the company’s 401K plan, and foster a team-oriented work environment with regular company outings!
Why Join Us
The mission is real. Our software runs in front of people whose job is to keep the fleet moving — the consequences of getting it right are tangible.
Small team, high leverage. You'll have visibility from the engineering trenches to the executive team, and your work will compound.
Hard problems worth solving. Reinforcement learning applied to logistics at the scale of a military service is genuinely novel work.
Competitive comp, meaningful equity, and the kind of professional growth that comes from being trusted with big things early.
Tagup is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment with us are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Citizenship: Due to the nature of our work with the U.S. Department of Defense, applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor visas at this time.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing or end-to-end systems integration work
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript and SQL
- Experience integrating data from messy sources and designing systems under constraints
- Experience deploying and debugging in government cloud, on-premises, or other constrained environments
- Ability to make and defend technical design trade-offs
- Experience mentoring engineers and reviewing code across a team
- Willingness to travel to customer sites and military installations across the United States
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance
- Military service or experience delivering software into defense programs
- Familiarity with service supply, maintenance, and readiness data systems
- Experience with accreditation processes and impact-level government environments
- Active security clearance
What We Do
At Tagup, we partner with the world’s largest equipment operators to make their assets safer, more reliable, and more efficient. Our AI-driven solutions provide our customers actionable insights that drive business value from existing equipment data. Want to know what your data is trying to tell you? Contact us at [email protected] to learn more.
