About the role
WireScreen is a fast-growing Series A startup bringing clarity to one of the world’s most complex business landscapes. We’re building the go-to intelligence platform for navigating global supply chains and China-related risk—revealing the networks, relationships, and financial ties behind companies so our customers can see connections, remove obstacles, and make confident decisions. Backed by Sequoia Capital and Harpoon Ventures, our team includes a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and senior engineers from Google, Twitter, and Oracle. We launched just three years ago and already have strong traction with top-tier government customers—and we’re just getting started. If you’re excited to make global systems more transparent and secure, now’s the perfect time to join us. Check out this blog from our CEO on how WireScreen traced DeepSeek’s origins back to 2023—well before it went mainstream in 2025.
About
The Role: As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work collaboratively to design and build our next-generation platform and product features. You'll face diverse and interesting problems, from modeling graph relationships between tens of millions of entities to augmenting datasets via new data pipeline stages to delivering data to our web UI, API, and other products.
Responsibilities also include scaling our systems to handle massive data growth, optimizing software performance, and ultimately delivering product features that could 10x our revenue. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you’ll have an excellent opportunity to grow quickly in your career as you develop a breadth of skills alongside a highly motivated, capable team.
What You'll Do: Build scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems able to handle more data, more queries, and more insights Design and build platform APIs upon which multiple product features depend Work alongside a product manager, UX designer, and other engineers to deliver valuable new product features and datasets Advocate for and prototype new technology solutions that solve real problems Continuously and incrementally improve our engineering processes, culture, documentation, tools, and systems You Should Apply If You Have… 5+ years of experience as a software engineer Significant experience (3+ years) working on the backend and have delivered at least one application or service from design to production Strong proficiency in Python Experience at least one prior startup Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical teammates BS in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
