Vantage Point Analytics

Vantage Point Analytics is changing the way that brands track their products, and we need your help!

Counterfeit goods account for as much as 30% of global trade for many products, including sensitive electronics, medicine, food, and clothing. This trade not only has a far reaching impact on the global economy, but also puts potentially dangerous products in the hands of consumers, businesses, and the military.

At VPA, we believe that we can put a stop to counterfeiting, gray markets, and fraud through data. By providing brands with real time information about their products we will not only be able to track fraud as it occurs, but predict where it will occur going forward.

If you're a software engineer that gets excited about data and using it to solve global problems, we want you to join our team.
We need an experienced engineer to help us achieve this vision by building VPA and, as we grow, mentoring future engineers. Your typical week will include quite a bit of designing, coding, and releasing new features. We're a small team, and we all wear many hats, so we're looking for someone who doesn't mind writing a little bit of client side code, or rolling up their sleeves and figuring our what's wrong with a deployment. Sound like a lot? Don’t worry, we’re big on collaboration, knowledge sharing, and cross-training. And we end every week with a retrospective, so if something’s not working for us, we’ll fix it.

Why work at VPA?

• Mission-oriented organization
• Help solve large, global problems using massive datasets, potentially from some of your favorite brands
• A culture that encourages experimentation with the latest technologies and continuous growth in the knowledge of our employees.
• Cross-functional, collaborative team
• Solid benefits, including: Full health and dental, all the tools you need to be productive, and a great office in downtown Austin replete with coffee, beer, and snacks.

Requirements

• 3+ years hands-on experience building and deploying product-grade web applications
• A demonstrated ability to write clear, well tested and structured software
• A solid understanding of object oriented or functional programming
• Working understanding of Git, SQL

Optional bonus points

Our requirements are above, but here are some other things that we’d also be glad to see:

• Some positive experience working with a very small team
• Some experience with our tech stack (Java, MySql/Aurora, Redis, AWS)
• Experience with other JVM languages (Scala, Kotlin, Groovy) is super cool
• Experience with, or at least a high level understanding of, micro-service architectures
• Computer Science or STEM degree
• Some knowledge of Data Science
• Devops and/or AWS experience
• Experience with a modern front-end framework (Angular, Ember, React/Flux)
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Experience building highly reliable systems