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Our technology helps recyclers close more deals, operate more efficiently, and finally ditch the pen-and-paper workflows.\nWe’re an early-stage company, backed by leading climate-tech VCs, looking to bring on new team members that can help us build VALIS and transform the industry. We lead with authenticity, boldness, passion, and empathy focused on creating a more sustainable future. A career at VALIS is one where you’ll be empowered to expand your technical and leadership abilities while having a positive impact on the world.\nThe roleAs a Software Engineer at VALIS, you'll build and scale our newest product line, taking it from a blank page to the plant floor. You'll spend time with operators and plant managers, design the schema and application, and deliver a product that scrap processors rely on to run their plant. Working directly with our CTO, product team, and end users, you'll make the architecture and design decisions, prioritize what gets built when, and see your work used every shift, every day. We're hiring across mid-senior levels, from a few years experience to senior engineers.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn the product end-to-end: data model, API, UI, UX, deployment, and iteration.\n\nDesign a multi-tenant domain model (materials, loads, runs, equipment, quality) that holds up as each customer's process differs.\n\nBuild fast, robust, validated data-entry workflows for the plant floor.\n\nDeliver insights dashboards managers act on each shift.\n\nMeet with operators and facility managers weekly, get on-site, and turn what you see into product decisions.\n\nIntegrate new data sources with existing VALIS data and customer systems such as ERP exports, scales, and plant controls.\n\nBuild and deploy agentic features to surface trends from production and quality data, flag anomalies, and notify the right people.\n\nHow we work\n\nRemote, US-based. Work from anywhere in the US, overlapping with East Coast business hours (roughly 9am to 5pm ET).\n\nSmall team, low overhead. You'll work directly with our CTO, along with a product and business team with deep industry experience.\n\nOur stack: React and TypeScript on the frontend; C# and ASP.NET Core with PostgreSQL on the backend; AWS, Docker, and Pulumi for infrastructure.\n\nWe use Claude Code heavily and expect you to be highly effective with it. You should own and understand the code you ship; AI speeds up the work but does not replace the thinking.\n\nTravel a few times a year for customer site visits and company get-togethers (on-site at our HQ in Worcester, MA or off-site elsewhere).\n\nRequirementsWho you areWe hire for fundamentals & mindset. You:\nHave 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (for senior candidates, 5+ and have led technical projects).\n\nThink data model first: you can turn a messy real-world process into a clean, normalized schema... and defend the tradeoff decisions.\n\nUse types, clear boundaries, and domain language to make wrong states hard to represent.\n\nAre comfortable owning ambiguous problems end to end, finding solutions without waiting for instruction.\n\nAre solid across databases, backend APIs, and frontend fundamentals.\n\nAre mathematically minded, with strong quantitative and statistical fundamentals, so the numbers we show customers are ones they can trust.\n\nMove fast, cut scope wisely, and don't shy away from talking to customers.\n\nWrite and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical team members (we're a remote team).\n\nIt won't be a good fit if you want a big team to lean on, a slow/low-risk release process, or narrow-scoped work.\nIf this role really excites you, but you don't check all the boxes, apply anyway!\nBonus points\nFamiliarity with our stack (React, TypeScript, C#/.NET, PostgreSQL, AWS).\n\nYou've worked in metals or materials recycling (or another heavy industry) and understand the people who run those operations.\n\nYou've built ERP, MES, inventory, logistics, or other operations software where data-entry correctness matters.\n\nYou've built multi-tenant B2B SaaS where each customer's workflow is a little different.\n\nExperience with plant or device data: scales, PLCs, SCADA, MQTT, or ERP integrations.\n\nBenefits\n\nBase salary: $125,000 to $155,000, depending on experience level\n\nMeaningful equity through our employee stock option plan\n\n401(k) with employer matc\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insuranc\n\nUnlimited vacation, plus: sick time, guaranteed personal time, and public holiday\n\nYou must be authorized to work in the US full-time. 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It's on the About Us page of our website.\nSteps\nIntro call (15-30 min)\n\nTechnical deep dive (30-60 min) on something you built from scratch\n\nLive design exercise (60-90 min): e.g., model a real recycling-floor workflow with us\n\nTeam and founder conversations\n\nReferences, background check, and offer\n\nWe aim to move from first call to offer in about 2-3 weeks.\nOriginally posted on Himalayas","description_format":"text","description_chars":5497,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-28T02:28:30Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["seen:7","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":155000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/valis-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/valis-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T11:31:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":17129,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3997491},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3997491"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fvalis-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fvalis-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fvalis-software-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/valis-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fvalis-software-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3376661}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"valis.io","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3376661},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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