# Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

**Company:** [Vannevar](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vannevar)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, Elasticsearch, Opensearch, Search Engines, Agentic AI
**Posted:** 2026-03-18

> Build and ship fullstack features for a defense AI platform providing situational awareness to operators, handling data ingestion, backend APIs, frontend UIs, and AI analysis. Requires 5+ years experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, and search engines like Elasticsearch.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Design, build, and ship a cutting edge identity search platform using **TypeScript**, **React**, **Tailwind**, and **Node.js**
- Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and other engineers to understand user workflows and create 10x better solutions for their problems
- Implement and maintain search and agentic AI systems for high-scale data, both tabular and graph shaped
- Help define and shape the future of the product

## What we’re looking for

- **5+ years** of professional software development experience
- Expertise in **TypeScript**, **Node.js**, **Postgres**, and **AWS**
- Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g., **Elasticsearch**, **OpenSearch**)
- Prior experience working in a user-facing product role

## Nice to Have

- Active Security clearance or ability to obtain one and desire to travel to visit users, collect feedback, and debug issues
- Prior experience developing AI-native products
- Understanding of search concepts like indexing, ranking, query parsing, and tokenization

## What we offer

- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Remote friendly with WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
- 401(k) match
- Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

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