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We replace the legacy systems federal agencies run on with modern software, built with craft. The ticketing platform a resident uses to visit a presidential library. The marketplace DoW uses for counter-drone procurement to protect lives and critical infrastructure. The system a Veteran uses to access benefits. We build systems of record, of national consequence. Our AI-native modules and harness allow us to do so in weeks and months, not years.\nThis year, our revenue has grown 35x. Next year, our software will serve over 100 million Americans across dozens of federal agencies.\nFounded in 2022 and based in New York City and DC, Kaizen has raised $35 million from NEA, a16z, Accel, 776, and Carpenter Capital.\nClearance and Eligibility\nThis role requires an active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance. 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Your decisions become the patterns the rest of the team builds on\n\nEngage directly with federal agency stakeholders to translate messy real-world requirements into clean, shippable product\n\nOwn platform reliability and performance at government scale: real SLAs, real users, no abstraction layer between you and accountability\n\nMentor earlier-career engineers through code review, pairing, and direct technical feedback\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n5+ years of professional engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex features and systems, not just executing on them\n\nHands-on development experience with Palantir Foundry, AIP, or Maven Smart System. You have modeled against the ontology, shipped pipelines or AIP agents, and can say what the platform does well and where you had to work around it\n\nDeep fluency in React / Next.js and Node.js / TypeScript / Postgres. Fast, not just functional\n\nAI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) are already baked into how you work. You've shipped with them, and you move measurably faster because of it\n\nYou've built something real: a product, an open source project, a system you designed and stood behind\n\nProven ability to operate in ambiguity: you define the problem as often as you solve it, and you don't stall waiting for the answer to come to you\n\nA genuine orientation toward the end user, the person on the other side of the screen isn't an abstraction to you\n\nStrong Candidates May Also...\nHave shipped software inside a classified or otherwise accredited environment, and know where the real friction lives\n\nHave been a Forward Deployed Engineer, or worked a program where Palantir was prime and you were the one making the integration actually work\n\nHave touched federal, state, or local government tech, or have built in other regulated, high-stakes environments where the constraints were real\n\nHave cloud deployment depth: AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, ECS/Fargate\n\nHave experience with design systems and component libraries and a clear opinion on when a component is right vs. just functional\n\nHave led technical work in an early-stage environment where the job was figuring it out, not following a playbook\n\nWhat Kaizen Offers\nHealth & Insurance\n100% coverage across the board: medical through Oxford/United (Gold and Platinum PPO plans), dental through Guardian PPO, and vision through Beam - all fully covered for employees, with 100% coverage for dependents.\n\n$100,000 in fully paid life insurance. 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