What if your full-stack skills could help advance cancer research, model climate impacts, or combat human trafficking, instead of adding an AI chatbot to a legacy codebase? At Kitware, you won't be building yet another SaaS dashboard. You'll work in small, autonomous teams on greenfield projects that tackle real scientific and societal challenges, using a wide breadth of technologies across the full stack.
Kitware's mission is to advance science and make the world a better place through open-source software. We collaborate with top universities, national research labs, and government agencies on R&D projects with outsized real-world impact. Our tools are used by millions: CMake is ubiquitous in C++, and our other platforms are deeply impactful in domains like medical imaging, geospatial intelligence, and scientific computing.
We're a 100% employee-owned company (ESOP) with no outside investors, fewer than 200 employees, and an average employee tenure of six years. Our leadership has a technical background, and there's no layer of middle management between you and the problems you're solving. We're not chasing VC rounds or seeking an exit. We're building software that matters, for the long haul.
Join us and build the software that makes science work.
ABOUT THE DATA & ANALYTICS TEAM
Our Mission: We connect people with data by enriching it with computation and making it visible, discoverable, analyzable, and shareable for maximum reach and impact.
We build Python and TypeScript web applications that help scientists, analysts, and researchers work with their data. Our projects range from large-scale data management platforms to custom visualization tools to open-source libraries used across the scientific community. Our team is roughly 20 engineers, and most projects are staffed with two to four people.
Values That Guide Us:
- Engineer empowerment. We empower our engineers to directly address customer needs by trusting them to make decisions in their day-to-day work, seek knowledge to grow their technical skills, and engage each other in teaching and discussion. We eschew micromanagement.
- Pursuit of passions. With an entrepreneurial mindset, we support each other in finding opportunities where fun meets fundable. We do our best when we love what we do.
- Solutions over software. We prioritize delivering transformative and sustainable solutions over specific technologies or software artifacts. We tailor our technical approach to the needs and circumstances of our customers, maximizing the chance of customer success and our own satisfaction.
- Focus on the important. We focus on the most pressing and important problems, not just those that are the easiest to solve or most politically palatable. We share the same objectives, so candor doesn't feel personal.
Key Tools in Our Stack: Python, TypeScript, Django, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Heroku, Terraform, Ansible, Pytest, Sentry.
Projects We Work On: There is a lot that we're building at Kitware. Here are some examples that give a sense of the problems we tackle:
- Data management and analysis platforms: Building web applications that help researchers and analysts manage, query, and derive insight from complex datasets across domains like health care, geospatial intelligence, and climate science.
- Domain-specific applications: Building custom applications for collaborators, including national labs, universities, medical device manufacturers, and government agencies, for web and mobile platforms.
- Interactive data visualization: Creating browser-based tools that make large-scale scientific data explorable and understandable, from medical imaging to environmental modeling.
- Open-source libraries and tools: Extending and maintaining Kitware's portfolio of widely used open-source projects, improving their web integrations and developer experience.
WHO YOU ARE
We're looking for experienced engineers who thrive with autonomy, weigh tradeoffs thoughtfully, and are energized by working across a variety of projects and technologies.
You Bring (required):
- Full-stack experience on modern web applications, with back-end depth in Python (Django or similar)
- Comfort with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and frameworks like Vue.js and React
- Working knowledge of databases, REST APIs, and web security fundamentals
- Experience with Git, continuous integration, and automated testing
- Due to contractual restrictions, only candidates who are U.S. persons (citizens, permanent residents, asylees, or refugees) will be considered for this position
You've Likely Also Done Some of These (preferred):
- Worked with large or complex scientific datasets
- Communicated technical tradeoffs to non-technical collaborators, like researchers or domain experts
- Contributed to open-source projects
- Built well-crafted user interfaces, including interactive data visualizations
- Worked with cloud services and DevOps tools
You'll Thrive Here if You:
- Can get up to speed on unfamiliar scientific problem spaces quickly: on one project you may be learning histopathology, and on the next, fisheries data
- Are comfortable saying "we shouldn't do this" to a customer when the fit isn't right
- Would rather build the right solution for a specific problem than use your favorite framework on every project
- Provide and receive candid technical feedback, including respectfully challenging ideas you disagree with, while maintaining a professional and collaborative approach
- Are humble enough to recognize the limits of your own expertise and actively seek out colleagues who know more
- Are self-directed and take ownership of your work without waiting to be told what to do (we don't micromanage)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, plus 3+ years of professional web development experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- This role is open to remote candidates in these 23 states: AL, AZ, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI. Preference will be given to those local to our Clifton Park, NY, office.
Our Interview Process:
- Initial screen: A brief conversation with HR to learn about your background and tell you more about the team.
- Technical interview: A discussion with engineers on the team focused on your experience and strengths, with brief code reading and writing exercises, but no whiteboard algorithm challenges.
- Full-day interview: You'll meet leaders and members of our team, deliver a short presentation about yourself, participate in a series of small-group interviews on various topics, and leave with a fuller picture of what it's like to work here.
- Offer: Details on compensation, employee ownership, and benefits.
Kitware employees are compensated hourly: if you work beyond a standard week, you're paid for it. Full benefits details, including PTO, ESOP participation, and health coverage, will be provided during the hiring process.
Company Description:
Kitware is a research and development software solutions provider with a mission to advance science, make a positive impact, and share our results all within a collaborative, employee-focused work environment that is friendly, fair, and flexible. Our work is improving healthcare outcomes, increasing national security, and advancing our national computing infrastructure. Our customers and collaborators include top universities from around the world, government organizations, national research labs, medical device manufacturers, car manufacturers, financial institutions, and many others.
Kitware is proud to be 100% employee-owned, and Great Place to Work-Certified™.
Additional Information:
Our team members enjoy a small company environment, flexibility in work assignments, and high levels of independence and responsibility. Besides a great work environment, our comprehensive benefits package includes a competitive compensation plan, tuition reimbursement program, flexible working hours, six weeks paid time off, 401(k), health insurance, life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, bonus plan, and free coffee, drinks, and snacks.
Kitware actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, protected veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Any unsolicited resume sent to Kitware, including to Kitware's mailing addresses, fax machines or email addresses, whether directly to Kitware employees or to Kitware's applicant tracking system, will be considered Kitware property. Kitware will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, and will consider any candidate submitted by a recruitment agency without a fully executed contract with Kitware to have been referred free of any charges or fees.
If you need assistance with applying or interviewing for a role due to a disability or special need, please reach out directly to our HR team at hr@kitware.com at any time during the hiring process. ]]>