Software Engineer, Backend & Data

Vital Lyfe is hiring a Software Engineer to build software supporting its consumer hardware manufacturing operations. The role focuses on backend services, data pipelines, and internal tools that help teams track production, while also contributing to manufacturing systems and apps.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines that bring test and production data off the manufacturing line, validate and store it, and turn it into views our teams use to track yield and failures
• Build, extend, and maintain backend services and system integrations on our established cloud platform, keeping data reliable across the company
• Own what you build end to end: design, test, ship, debug, and keep it running in production
• Help shape design and implementation decisions that advance our technical roadmap
• Build and improve internal tools that give our engineering and operations teams real-time visibility into production and manufacturing workflows
• Contribute across the rest of our software, including our manufacturing execution system (MES) and the handheld app our floor teams use

Preferred

• Experience building data pipelines, including validating and cleaning messy real-world data
• Background in building user-facing interfaces with React or a similar frontend framework
• Experience with dashboards or data visualization tools
• Experience with AWS, especially serverless and infrastructure as code
• Experience with ERP, MES, or other manufacturing systems
• Interest in manufacturing, hardware-software integration, or IoT systems
• Data pipeline development
• Data validation
• Data cleaning
• Frontend development
• React
• Dashboard development
• Data visualization
• AWS
• Serverless computing
• Infrastructure as code
• ERP systems
• MES systems
• Manufacturing systems
• Hardware-software integration
• IoT systems
• Interest in manufacturing

Benefits

• Equity
• Be the first full-time hire on a new software team, with a hand in shaping how the team works
• Work on high-impact problems with global relevance
• Help scale breakthrough technology in water security and climate resilience
• Early ownership in a high growth, engineering led startup
• Join a tight knit, mission driven team in a fast-paced environment
• Build long term career equity as we grow

Company

• Personal water-making systems purifying natural sources into drinking water
• Torrance, California, USA
• https://www.vital-lyfe.com/
• Founded in 2024
• 11-50 employees

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 2 to 4 years building software professionally
• Experience building and maintaining backend services or APIs in production
• Strong programming fundamentals and comfort learning new systems quickly
• Deep experience with at least one modern language, such as Python or TypeScript
• Working knowledge of SQL and structured data
• Comfortable in a codebase you didn't write, and able to debug problems on your own
• Practical and curious, with a habit of taking ownership and following through
• Able to break down a problem, work through it, and know when to ask for help
• Excited to work where software and hardware intersect
• Experience building data pipelines, including validating and cleaning messy real-world data
• Background in building user-facing interfaces with React or a similar frontend framework
• Experience with dashboards or data visualization tools
• Experience with AWS, especially serverless and infrastructure as code
• Experience with ERP, MES, or other manufacturing systems
• Interest in manufacturing, hardware-software integration, or IoT systems

Required skills

• AWS, Backend Services and APIs, Data Pipelines, ERP Systems, Infrastructure as Code, IoT Systems, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Python, React, SQL, Serverless Computing, TypeScript

Preferred skills

• Experience with ERP, MES, or other manufacturing systems, Experience with dashboards or data visualization tools

Experience

• 2-4 years