[Hiring] Software Engineer @Athennian

Role Description

Athennian is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Migration Team, reporting directly to the Senior Engineering Manager of Data Management. In this role, you will bridge high-impact client onboarding with core product engineering, supporting large enterprise migrations while contributing directly to application features and platform performance.

Your core focus will be architecting and maintaining robust migration pipelines that transfer complex legal and corporate data from legacy systems into Athennian. Your work ensures uncompromising data accuracy and integrity, setting our enterprise clients up for long-term success from day one of their digital transformation.

What you'll do

• Lead client data onboarding end-to-end, writing complex SQL and MongoDB scripts to migrate and validate 100k+ record datasets from legacy platforms.
• Partner with Onboarding Implementation Specialists, Quality Assurance, and Product Managers to perform automated and manual data verification cycles, reporting on data anomalies.
• Maintain, optimize, and scale internal automated data migration tooling to improve migration throughput by 20%.
• Build, refine, and ship backend and full-stack application improvements and features as part of ongoing product development.
• Own project deliverables with high autonomy in a fast-paced environment, taking full responsibility for features from problem identification to deployment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
• Strong experience in database design, querying, and optimization across relational (PostgreSQL, SQLite) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript environments, specifically the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node.js), with explicit proficiency in TypeScript and Angular.
• Demonstrated ability to work with high autonomy and own end-to-end feature development in fast-paced software startup/scale-up environments.
• Proven track record of designing, shipping, and operating AI-driven backend features, focusing on automated data extraction, ETL pipelines, schema mapping, and query optimization workflows.
• Proficient with Linux CLI environments, scripting, and standard DevOps workflows for backend deployment.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure (S3 for document storage, EC2) and containerized workflows (Docker).
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail when resolving data integrity issues in large-scale data environments.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity and performance-based bonus structure.
• A minimum of 3 weeks vacation, 5 sick days and 6 personal/flex days, plus a company-wide winter holiday shutdown.
• Health, dental, vision, long-term disability and a Health Spending Account (HSA).
• Flexible parental leave, including top-ups.
• A work-from-home allowance to get you set up for success.

Company Description

We thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where every team member plays a critical role in our success. We value ambitious, results-driven people who spot opportunities, take initiative and go the extra mile. Collaboration fuels our growth as we take on new challenges, learn constantly and move quickly.

• Outcome Driven: We focus on setting ambitious goals and achieving measurable results, valuing success by the outcomes we deliver.
• Wide Responsibility: Our team is empowered to shape success, taking ownership from problem identification to solution implementation.
• Learning Mindset: We embrace curiosity, rejecting the status quo and encouraging continuous learning and agility.
• Strategic Speed: We make fast, effective decisions and embrace a bias for action to seize opportunities quickly.