Senior Software Engineer

About Liferaft

Liferaft builds software that helps organizations find, understand, and act on potential risks from publicly available information. Our clients include corporate security teams around the world, including some of the world’s leading organizations. We’re a remote-first company committed to building a high-performing, values-driven team that operates with clarity, discipline, accountability, and care.

Liferaft was recently acquired by global security company Securitas, expanding our ability to deliver intelligence-led security at scale. Together, our technology and security solutions help these organizations protect their people, assets, and operations, making a meaningful impact in the world we live in.

About the Role

Liferaft is looking for a highly skilled and visionary Senior Software Engineer to help us continue to grow and enrich the platform our customers use to keep their people and assets safe. This role can be hybrid in Halifax, NS, or fully remote within the Eastern, or Atlantic time zones in Canada.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, this individual will play a critical role in building on the already sophisticated open source threat intelligence platform we have. You will partner closely with the engineering leadership and core product engineering teams to build new features and capabilities across domains ranging from data acquisition to data visualization to threat intelligence and management.

For this particular Senior Software Engineer opening, we're especially interested in candidates with a strong backend and data engineering focus.

What you do as a Senior Software Engineer
- Work closely with engineering and product leadership to architect, build, and maintain our customer facing threat intelligence platform in alignment with customer and market requirements
- Participate in standups, design and sprint reviews, bug bashes, and sprint kickoff activities for product releases
- Continuously analyze and optimize our platform to ensure an excellent customer experience
- Evaluate and propose new technologies and methodologies as needed to ensure we are aligned with industry best practices
- Leverage agile practices, encourage collaboration, prioritization, and urgency to develop at a rapid pace
- Develop and maintain scalable data ingestion and processing systems to ensure high-volume data is collected, processed, and made available reliably and efficiently