Software Engineer, Backend & Data

Los Angeles - Greater Areafull time

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$120k–$150k

H1B: no

Vital Lyfe Software Engineer at Vital Lyfe responsible for building backend and data systems supporting manufacturing and operations. Own end-to-end development of data pipelines, backend services, and internal tools.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain data pipelines that bring test and production data off the manufacturing line, validate and store it, and turn it into views our teams use to track yield and failures
Build, extend, and maintain backend services and system integrations on our established cloud platform, keeping data reliable across the company
Own what you build end to end: design, test, ship, debug, and keep it running in production
Help shape design and implementation decisions that advance our technical roadmap
Build and improve internal tools that give our engineering and operations teams real-time visibility into production and manufacturing workflows
Contribute across the rest of our software, including our manufacturing execution system (MES) and the handheld app our floor teams use
Our stack includes TypeScript, Python, React, and AWS.

Qualification

Practical and curiousAble to break down a problemExperience building data pipelinesExperience with AWSExperience with ERPInterest in manufacturingWhy Join Vital Lyfe?

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
2 to 4 years building software professionally
Experience building and maintaining backend services or APIs in production
Strong programming fundamentals and comfort learning new systems quickly
Deep experience with at least one modern language, such as Python or TypeScript
Working knowledge of SQL and structured data
Comfortable in a codebase you didn’t write, and able to debug problems on your own
Practical and curious, with a habit of taking ownership and following through
Able to break down a problem, work through it, and know when to ask for help
Excited to work where software and hardware intersect

Preferred

Experience building data pipelines, including validating and cleaning messy real-world data
Background in building user-facing interfaces with React or a similar frontend framework
Experience with dashboards or data visualization tools
Experience with AWS, especially serverless and infrastructure as code
Experience with ERP, MES, or other manufacturing systems
Interest in manufacturing, hardware-software integration, or IoT systems
Why Join Vital Lyfe?
Be the first full-time hire on a new software team, with a hand in shaping how the team works

Benefits

Equity/RSU
Flexible Work

Company

Vital Lyfe

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