Early Full-Stack Python Engineer - Strategic Warning AI

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1 month ago

Remote

Contractor

Intermediate or Experienced

Remote (EU or UK), Germany

About the job Location: Fully Remote but must have UK/EU work authorization

Type: Full-time contractor, with a path to conversion to salaried role + equity

Reports to: Chief Scientific Officer (until Head of Engineering is hired)

Compensation: $8,000 USD/month contractor rate

Background Screening: Required per client + legal obligations

Anadyr Horizon builds Strategic Warning AI - technology designed to help governments and institutions see crises before they happen and prevent escalation.

This isn't "yet another stack."

You'll be engineering the backbone of a system used by analysts, operators, and real world decision makers navigating high pressure environments.

We're assembling a founding engineering team - just three people - to take research prototypes and turn them into production systems that actually shape global outcomes.

We're building the infrastructure behind a new category of intelligence software. This is that moment.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain FastAPI services that power agentic simulations and data pipelines.
• Design PostgreSQL schemas, optimize queries, and manage migrations (SQL proficiency required).
• Deploy and monitor workloads on AWS with CI/CD and infrastructure as code practices.
• Set up and maintain observability (metrics, logs, traces, error handling) with SLO/SLA thinking and privacy safe product analytics/UX telemetry (e.g., PostHog/OpenReplay or Hotjar with strict field masking, consent, and data residency controls).
• Collaborate on system design with research and product leads - from concept prototype production.
• Contribute to engineering standards: code review, testing, linting, typed Python, and rollback plans.

What You'll Bring

• Proficient in Python and SQL; strong back end engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with Linux and building/consuming APIs.
• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly (e.g., AWS cloud services).
• Docker experience for local development and deployment.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
• Familiarity with React and Next.js is a bonus (not a strict requirement).
• Emphasis on strong coding skills and back end depth over front end specialization.

Must Have Experience

• 3-5+ years shipping production web applications with clear ownership of features from design to deploy (preferably in small, high velocity teams).
• Backend depth in Python: FastAPI (preferred) or Flask, strong async fundamentals, Pydantic/typing, and SQL/PostgreSQL mastery (schema design, indexing, query plans, migrations).
• Frontend capability, not dependency: comfortable building and maintaining React + TypeScript views and UI flows; deep front end specialization is not required.
• DevOps proficiency: hands on with Docker, CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions), and practical AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM basics); able to stand up and monitor services.
• Observability + reliability: metrics, logs, traces (OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana) and SLO/SLA thinking.
• Privacy safe product analytics/UX telemetry (e.g., PostHog/OpenReplay or Hotjar with strict field masking, consent, and data residency controls).
• Security minded habits: least privilege IAM, secrets management, auditability, and rollback plans.
• Communication & collaboration: clear written English (PRs/design notes/runbooks), effective remote collaboration during EU time zones, and a bias to ship.

Nice to Have

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), Docker.
• Observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) and SLO/SLA thinking.
• ML serving experience (FastAPI inference endpoints, vector databases, model registries).
• Experience with simulation heavy or data intensive applications.
• Security & compliance: least privilege IAM, secrets management, audit trails, and exposure to SOC 2/GDPR/data residency practices.

Why You'll Love It Here You're joining at the moment before the engineering culture solidifies - which means:

• Early influence: Help shape the engineering stack and team culture from the ground up, we're moving from prototype to scalable, and your decisions will set the standards we grow on.
• Mission with consequence: Your code helps analysts and policymakers prevent crises, not react to them.
• Serious craft: We write typed Python, measure twice before shipping, and build systems meant to last.
• Autonomy & trust: Minimal bureaucracy, direct access to founders, rapid iteration.

Weekly Cadence (What a typical week looks like)

• Periodic stand up ( 15 minutes, late afternoon/evening CET): crisp sync across engineering, data, product, and design.
• Deep work blocks: uninterrupted time for building, testing, and writing design notes.
• Weekly engineering planning (60-90 minutes) : refine priorities, confirm acceptance criteria, and set measurable outcomes (e.g., p95 targets, migration milestones).
• Release/retro touchpoints: check what shipped, what moved metrics, and capture learnings into runbooks and tech debt tickets.

Hiring Process

• Short take home or working session (real task, no algorithm puzzles)
• 60 min technical conversation (Python, SQL, architecture)
• Founder conversation
• Offer

Why Join Now

• You'll be helping build the decision engine we wish existed during the Cuban Missile Crisis - software designed to surface escalation pathways before they become headlines.
• You'll join the team that anticipated Ukraine's conflict dynamics early and now partners with organizations operating in the world's highest stakes environments.
• You'll ship quickly, learn relentlessly, and make an outsized impact on a deep tech system built for analysts and policymakers who cannot afford to be surprised.

Anadyr Culture We move fast. We operate as one aligned team.

If you're looking for low stakes or a 9-5 buffer - this isn't it.

If you thrive on responsibility, clarity, trust, and momentum, you'll do the best work of your career here.

You'll help shape the engineering culture, product experience, and norms of a deep tech company rooted in our values:

• Integrity - we do what we say.
• Amity - we win through trust and collaboration.
• Excellence - we build with precision and purpose.

Preferred Skills python

sql

Anadyr Horizon

United States

Executive Assistant to the Chief Scientific Officer (Co op) Location: Remote (CA, IL, MA, & NY preferred) Schedule: Full time Co op (Jan-Jun) Reports to: Chief Scientific Officer Works closely with: the Operations & Engineering teams

About Anadyr Horizon

We create decision infrastructure for the age of strategic surprise. Our Agentic Systems Intelligence (ASI) runs millions of high fidelity simulations to surface hidden escalation pathways, giving national security, finance, and insurance leaders time to act when minutes matter. Fresh off our AI+Expo debut, backed by the strongest mission driven VCs, and featured by Business Insider and NDTV, we're scaling fast to meet growing demand.

About the role

The Executive Assistant serves as a partner to the leadership team at Anadyr Horizon, providing high level administrative and operational support that ensures the smooth functioning of the Chief Scientific Officer's executive activities. This role requires strategic communication skills and a proactive mindset to anticipate needs, as well as manage complex priorities. It is helpful if the Executive Assistant has prior work experience in an office or startup environment. This position is especially important because the CSO moves quickly, juggles a heavy volume of communication, and relies on a structured, detail oriented partner to keep workflow, scheduling, and follow through running smoothly.

What you'll do

• Calendar & logistics: Manage CSO's schedule, coordinate travel, and handle sensitive logistics with discretion.
• Operational support: Take notes, and track follow ups for leadership meetings, helping us move forward as a company.
• Communication: Draft professional correspondence, manage email inboxes, and serve as a trusted point of contact internally and externally.
• Materials & prep: Support the creation of presentations, memos, and briefing documents; proofread and format for clarity and style.
• Confidential support: Handle sensitive information under NDA conditions with the highest standards of professionalism.
• Special projects: Jump in on various initiatives-from event coordination to research-ensuring priorities are executed on time.
• Workflow management: Help the CSO stay on top of commitments, deadlines, and priorities by organizing tasks, prompting timely responses, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.
• Structure & accountability: Provide gentle, consistent systems that keep calendars updated, communications clear, and workstreams organized so the CSO can stay focused on scientific and strategic leadership.

What you'll bring

• Ideally, prior experience as an executive assistant, chief of staff assistant, or in operations/administrative support.
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