--- title: 'Full Stack Engineering at Alitheon' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/full-stack-engineering-alitheon-bellevue-hw7yhhb3rzqs' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Full Stack Engineering at Alitheon - **Company:** Alitheon - **Location:** Bellevue, WA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-07-26 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/alitheon/am9icG9zdDoSLV5KPJ1bpKPvxZ3Q5tF4 ## Job description Alitheon is a cutting-edge company that is disrupting, leading, and enabling the next evolution of identification, authentication, and traceability using nothing but a photo. You will be an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for designing, planning, executing, and testing critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of our business and operational objectives. Job Responsibilities - Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems. - Develop secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs their own code as well as code written by others. - Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems. - Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies. - Work with an inspiring and curious team of technologists dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high-quality software and new products. Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills - High level proficiency in Java (Java 8 or newer) and Spring Boot is a must. - Kotlin, GoLang, Spring and related technologies are used and great to know. - 6+ years designing and delivering cloud-native applications using best practices (Azure, AWS, K8s & PaaS) - Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods; all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle; and agile methodologies, CI/CD, TDD - Hands on experience with web technologies (e.g. HTTP, REST, JSON, etc.) and building applications with microservice architecture or API concepts - SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.) Beneficial Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills - Security / SSO integrations and implementations - OAuth or other token-based authentication mechanisms - Developing software using domain-driven design (DDD) approach Other - Alitheon is a learning organization - we expect you to continuously learn and teach, challenge yourself and others, all to improve your own performance, that of your team members, and Alitheon as a whole. - The Company is based in Bellevue, Washington, and we expect you to be physically in the office with the team, the majority of the time. ## About Alitheon ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Alitheon uses optical-AI technology to identify, verify, and trace physical objects based on their inherent surface features—serving as a digital fingerprint system—without the need for barcodes, QR codes, RFID tags, or other external markers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Total Funding: $53.1M across 9 rounds; latest Series A in June 2026) - **Headquarters**: Bellevue, Washington, United States - **Founded**: 2017 (some sources cite 2016) - **Founders**: David Ross (Cofounder & Chief Scientist) and Scot Land ## Core Business - Primary industry: Industrial Software / Optical-AI / Supply Chain Traceability - Target customers: B2B, highly regulated industries including aviation services, automotive, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, precious metals, fashion, military/defense, and electronics manufacturing - Mission: To create a fail-proof, simple-to-use identification system that serializes physical items without markers, enabling track and trace, eliminating counterfeits and gray markets, and reducing human error ## Products & Services - **FeaturePrint®**: The flagship product—an advanced machine-vision technology that uses optical-AI to capture the unique, inherent surface features of any physical object (similar to a fingerprint for people). It works with standard cameras, no special lighting or equipment required. Enables identification, authentication, and traceability across the entire product lifecycle. - **PREP (Production Readiness Program)**: A feasibility testing program where clients send physical samples to Alitheon’s Seattle-based lab to validate FeaturePrint ID for their specific products. Provides a clear deployment model for go-to-market. - **Alitheon Platform (SaaS + Services)**: Cloud-based authentication and traceability services, deployed via AWS (certified AWS partner), with backend REST APIs, Docker containerization, and Angular-based front-end. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $12M (latest data); Total Funding of $53.1M across 9 rounds - **Notable Investors**: BMW i Ventures, Imagine Ventures, Emerald Technology Ventures - **Growth Signals**: - 22 employees (+8.3% YoY) - LinkedIn followers: 3,042 (+37.8% YoY) - Filed 75+ patents globally (36+ patents directly related to FeaturePrint) - Expanding partnerships: aXedras (precious metals supply chain), ORDRE Group (fashion), The Art Legacy Institute (art protection) - Featured in GeekWire, aftermarketNews, MEXICONOW, PR Newswire for traction in military, automotive, and luxury sectors - Active job postings as of 2026 (Industry Principal, Account Executive, Full Stack Developer, Imaging/Optical Engineer) ## Competitive Advantages - **No-touch, no-tag system**: Unlike RFID, barcodes, holograms, or chemical markers, FeaturePrint uses only the object’s natural surface—eliminating the cost, failure points, and counterfeiting risk of external labels. - **Patent moat**: 36+ granted patents and 75+ total patent filings covering authentication, image processing, and data management. - **Industry agnostic**: Proven across automotive, aviation, luxury, art, pharmaceuticals, precious metals, and military—demonstrating deep versatility. - **Hard-to-replicate tech**: Requires decades of pattern recognition and machine vision expertise; not a simple software pivot. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling across verticals**: After early traction in aviation/aerospace and luxury goods, Alitheon is expanding into automotive (counterfeit parts), precious metals (supply chain integrity), and fine art. - **Production readiness**: The PREP program is central to converting prospects into paying customers by de-risking adoption before full deployment. - **Partnership development**: Strategic alliances with integrators and industry bodies (e.g., aXedras) to embed FeaturePrint into existing supply chain workflows. - **Patenting aggressively**: Continued investment in IP to maintain a competitive moat. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “If you love solving industrial challenges with state-of-the-art software, your next career opportunity may be at Alitheon.” The team is lean (22 people) and focused on deep-tech problem solving in advanced manufacturing. - **Hybrid/Office Policy**: HQ is in Bellevue, WA; offices in Seattle; greater workforce is distributed across the US, Germany, and Switzerland. Open positions list Bellevue as the primary location. - **Engineering Focus**: Strong technical team (42% of staff in technical roles—software, imaging, R&D). Developers work with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, Angular, and REST APIs. Integrated hardware+software challenges. - **Compensation (examples from salary data)**: - Sr. Software Engineer: ~$140,413/yr - Head of Program Management: ~$170,678/yr - Backend Developer Intern: ~$73,745/yr - **Reviews**: 4.2/5.0 (4 reviews) — Compensation rated 3.9/5, Career growth 3.6/5, Work-Life 3.2/5, Culture 3.2/5. - **Appeals to**: Engineers who enjoy building scalable systems at the intersection of hardware and software; people who want to work on a platform with no direct equivalent; those who value patent-level innovation and seeing their code deployed in real-world industrial settings. ## Sources 1. [alitheon.com (Company page)](https://alitheon-avi.webflow.io/company) 2. [alitheon.com (Careers page)](https://alitheon-avi.webflow.io/careers) 3. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/alitheon) 4. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/alitheon) 5. [Built In Seattle](https://www.builtinseattle.com/company/alitheon/jobs) 6. [GeekWire](https://www.geekwire.com/2024/alitheon-gains-traction-with-military-and-commercial-applications-for-its-id-system/) 7. [PR Newswire (Automotive)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alitheon-puts-the-brakes-on-fraudulent-parts-in-the-global-automotive-industry-302240947.html) 8. [PR Newswire (Fashion)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ordre-group-selects-alitheon-featureprint-technology-to-bring-transparency-traceability-and-trust-to-the-global-fashion-industry-302195994.html) 9. [WANE 15 (Precious Metals)](https://www.wane.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/795220150/axedras-and-alitheon-set-a-new-global-standard-for-precious-metals-supply-chain-integrity/)