Principal Engineer

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Onebrief makes military planning seamless and represents a shift in paradigm for future military decisions. It is an all-in-one tool that supports both the creative and process-oriented aspects of military planning. In Onebrief, planners use maps, boards, diagrams, timelines, spreadsheets, slide decks and text documents to create their plans—all while sharing a common database. Everything stays in sync, in real time. Our approach has been refined and validated through hundreds of user experiments.

We’re post-revenue (approaching $2M in ARR). We are backed by Y Combinator (S21) and top-tier VCs, including Caffeinated Capital (Affirm, Docker, Notion, and more). Our elite team combines the best of tech and military talent, including education and experience at Google, Adobe, Delta Force, TOPGUN, and more.

Given our current traction we can barely keep up with demand. This is an opportunity for you to join us with all the perks of a founding employee.

As a principal engineer, you'll act as a hands-on architect and tech lead. You'll have the opportunity to create and evolve technical solutions across our entire stack—from rich front-end interactions to how we secure our app—, working closely with leadership and together with a capable cross-functional team. You'll be responsible for coordinating and shipping end-to-end initiatives and for mastering the balance between time and scope.

You'll report directly to Rafa, our CTO and co-founder.

Core skills and technologies: Typescript, React, Node.js, Express, Redis, Postgres

The ideal candidate has led cross-functional teams working on B2B/SaaS projects where creating a killer user experience involved a great deal of technical challenges. We are especially interested in projects involving aspects of creative support, data visualization, or modern collaboration.

• You are a trained and experienced (7+ years) all around engineer, who's worked extensively with React, Node.js, and relational databases

• You have a comprehensive understanding of the current state of web technologies and best practices

• You operate with a security and reliability-first mindset

• You have a playbook for running agile teams with minimal overhead and shipping projects consistently on time

• You have the skills to create simple solutions for complex problems quickly; often benefiting from tried-and-true techniques

• You put user value before tech

• You learn quickly, work iteratively and naturally seek collaboration

• You communicate clearly and succinctly

• You are a U.S. citizen

• Finally, you are a manager of one—capable of setting your own direction, building something from scratch, and seeing it through

Our team shares a passion, seek excellence, and play to win, with the seriousness and camaraderie of an olympic team. We are in this together, not just because Onebrief will one day be 10x the size of Palantir. We are here to build the future of military decisions, so that the coming decades don’t repeat the previous ones.

Here’s what our team members value most about working here:

• Founders' transparency

• Product and vision

• Leadership's ability to learn and adapt

• Challenges and learning opportunities

• Ownership and autonomy

• No non-sense policies and processes

• Remote-first, as opposed to remote-friendly

• $190k - $220k salary/year

• Equity

• Remote work, flex time, and unlimited PTO

• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance

• 401k

• Parental leave