Senior/Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer

About BRINC

At BRINC, we are redefining public safety with an innovative ecosystem of life-saving tools. Our journey started with the development of drones and ruggedized throw phones, designed to access unsafe areas and establish communication to de-escalate situations. Today, we've expanded into creating and deploying 911 response networks, where drones are dispatched to 911 calls to provide real-time visual data, enhancing safety and enabling de-escalation-focused responses. Our cutting-edge solutions are utilized by over 500 public safety agencies across America. At BRINC, we are committed to recruiting the world's best talent to join us in our mission to support first responders in saving lives. We are currently seeking skilled embedded software engineers to develop flight-critical firmware, with a focus on advanced drone pilot assistance features.

About This Role

In addition to launching more advanced drones, we're also expanding our software ecosystem into real-time monitoring and fleet management, and we recently shipped the first version of our first web app: LiveOps. This app gives drone operators and first response teams access to real-time live-streaming drone data such as visual and thermal video feeds, 3D map data via point clouds, and a myriad of drone telemetry – it’s essentially a web-based drone fleet management software. But our vision isn’t just fleet management; LiveOps represents a critical part of BRINC’s transition from a company that just sells drones to a company that sells entire drone programs: we want to build out the entire drone ecosystem (both hardware and software) for our customers.

It’s an ambitious goal, but it’s one that we feel confident about – we’ve got a lot of interest from customers in what we’ve built so far, and we are seeking a full-stack engineer to join our engineering team and own the development of this web app.

Key Responsibilities

1. Design and develop new APIs for robust in-app user data management, handling permissions, authentication, device management, and whatever else we need to build.
2. Enhance our real-time capabilities by building on top of internal WebSocket APIs and WebRTC for an innovative drone fleet management experience.
3. Integrate with third-party APIs, enriching our web application with external features and services.
4. Collaborate with our UX design team to conceive and implement intuitive interfaces, both novel and extensions of the existing ones.
5. Engage in a rapid and agile development cycle with product and design teams, along with field users, to define and refine product requirements, specifications, and objectives.

Qualifications

1. A Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in computer science or a related field, 6+ years of full-stack industry experience, and deep proficiency across the web application software stack (from the DB to the JS/HTML/CSS and back).
2. Excellent attention to detail, especially around testing, software design patterns, and the tradeoffs associated with scalability, performance, and security.
3. You take a creative approach to problem-solving and have exceptional analytical skills.
4. You thrive in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements.
5. You want to work independently and in a small team, take initiative, and communicate effectively across the organization.
6. Ability to pass fingerprint-based background check.

Preferred Skills

1. Prior experience building real-time web applications on top of WebSocket APIs and WebRTC.
2. Prior experience integrating with 3rd-party APIs and an understanding of the challenges that come with building these types of integrations.

Projects You May Work On

1. Adding new end-to-end features to the LiveOps web app.
2. Improving the performance, stability, and existing functionality of the LiveOps.
3. Building BRINC Pilot; a new web app experience to let users fly drones over the internet.
4. Partnering with BRINC platform engineers to work on real-time data streaming, processing, and storage APIs.

BRINC Culture Values

1. Try the hard stuff.
2. Be innovative - Invent the future.
3. Move fast.
4. Listen to end-users.
5. Strive for excellence.
6. Don’t build a dystopia.
7. Be frugal.
8. Save lives through technology.

If you’re interested in this role and in joining BRINC, we hope you’ll apply. We’d love to review your application and get to know more about you!

BRINC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering an environment that prioritizes safety, diversity, inclusion, and equity. We are committed to hiring the best talent regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We empower every employee to do their best work. If you have a disability or special need, please inform our recruiting team—we strive to provide appropriate accommodations and assistance.

Benefits and Perks

1. Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for our employees and their families.
2. 401K plan.
3. Maternity and paternity leave.
4. Paid time off.
5. Flexible work environment.
6. Orca pass (for those in Puget Sound).
7. Free parking (Seattle office).
8. Free snacks, drinks and espresso (Seattle office).

Salary: $95,000/year - $225,000/year.

Should you receive an offer, please expect that it can fall anywhere within this range. A multitude of factors will determine a fair salary based on scope of role within the organization, years of relevant experience, specific skills, and evaluation of capability to execute in role successfully (among other critical factors).

Compensation listed below may also be included in an offer. This will be based on the nature of your employment with Brinc and/or the country within which you work.

1. Equity (stock options).
2. Relocation bonus.