--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Pryzm' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-pryzm-boston-or-3as0jaz2qccg' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Senior Software Engineer at Pryzm - **Company:** Pryzm - **Location:** Boston OR, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2025-10-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pryzm/653badf4-2637-4ec4-b16e-e10aeb1c4b51/application **Skills:** React, Next.js, Django, FastAPI, Node.js, SQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, Redis, OAuth, APIs, ETL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Helm > Hands-on leadership role owning critical systems end-to-end, setting technical standards, and mentoring engineers. The role involves designing scalable architectures, collaborating cross-functionally, and contributing to AI-enabled product development for federal procurement. ## Job description ## About Pryzm America wastes time and money when the right capabilities don’t reach the right missions fast enough. Pryzm is fixing that. We’re building the AI operating system for federal procurement and capture -- used by both government and industry -- to unify workflows, market and budget intelligence, human context, and real-time program awareness into one actionable picture. Our team comes from Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and high-tempo startups; we ship secure, reliable software that moves real programs forward. If you want your code to matter to national security outcomes, join us. ## The Role I’m hiring a Software Engineering Lead to help me (the CTO) improve how federal tech gets delivered. This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll own critical systems end-to-end, set a high technical bar, and grow a team that ships with speed and rigor. We operate where it’s hardest -- security, reliability, scale, and clarity under ambiguity. This role is ideal for a senior level individual contributor with demonstrated experience conducting code-reviews, mentoring junior developers and liaising across other business units. ## What You’ll Do - Lead the design and development of complex, full-stack software systems, contributing hands-on across the stack. - Review code, maintain high engineering standards, and mentor engineers through technical guidance and feedback. Scope and design scalable system architectures, ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability. - Collaborate cross-functionally with teams such as Sales, Mission Ops, and Marketing to align product delivery with customer and business needs. - Drive development workflows and release coordination, ensuring smooth deployments and high-quality production systems. - Contribute to building modern AI-enabled products, including backend services, workflows, and integrations with LLM-powered systems. - Help grow the engineering team by participating in hiring and technical interviews. ## What We're Looking For - Led teams building or personally built complex, distributed systems with real users and uptime requirements. - Demonstrated mastery in at least one of our core areas: - Backend/Data: APIs, ETL - Frontend: UI/UX - Search/Analytics: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, schema design, relevance tuning. - Designed resilient architectures: clear boundaries, smooth releases, and instrumentation that catches issues before users do. - Communicated clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You can argue from first principles and then ship the pragmatic thing.. ## Qualifications - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership on complex systems or products. - A hands-on engineer who still enjoys coding while taking on leadership responsibilities. - Background as a Tech Lead, Senior/Staff Engineer, early engineer at a high-growth startup, or founder/co-founder of a startup. - Experience building modern web applications with frameworks such as React or Next.js, with strong product intuition and UX/design sensibility. - Backend expertise with modern frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, or Node.js, along with strong SQL and system design fundamentals. - Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered systems or workflows - Familiarity with modern infrastructure and tooling such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, along with workflow or systems tooling (e.g., Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, Redis, OAuth). - Bonus experience with distributed systems, ETL/data pipelines, DevOps tooling (Kubernetes, Helm), or mobile development. - Strong communicator who is comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams and occasionally engaging with customers. - Motivated, intellectually curious, and driven to build exceptional products with a high-performing team. - Located in or willing to relocate to Boston, MA. - US Person. - Veterans strongly encouraged to apply. ## Benefits Pryzm offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: - Equity opportunity. - Platinum Healthcare: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, fully covered by Pryzm. - Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance fully covered, with the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents. - Relocation assistance available. ## About Pryzm ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Pryzm is the AI command center for federal business development, providing a platform that combines defense intelligence, CRM, and AI-powered tools to help companies navigate and win government contracts. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed VC) - **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States (90 Canal Street, Suite 427) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Nick LaRovere (CEO), David Istrati (CTO), Justin Deckert (CGO/CBO), Matt Hawkins (Head of Operations) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Government Technology (GovTech), Defense Intelligence, B2G SaaS - **Target customers**: B2B (B2G) – Defense and government contractors, including emerging defense tech startups, established prime contractors, and government program offices. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To revolutionize government contracting by eliminating information silos and providing a unified, AI-driven operating system for federal business development and accelerated acquisitions. ## Products & Services - **[Pryzm Platform – AI Command Center]**: A unified AI-powered platform for the full lifecycle of federal business development, from capture and relationship management to delivery and revenue. Features include: - **Budget Intelligence**: Analysis of over 1.1M companies and $6.3T in total contract value, covering all levels of DoD budget data (RDT&E, Procurement, O&M). - **Contextual Relationship Management (CRM)**: Purpose-built for the National Security Ecosystem, mapping and tracking critical relationships, enriched contacts, and network graphing. - **Company & Organization Intelligence**: Detailed intelligence on defense ecosystem companies, DoD organizations, program executive offices (PEOs), and committees. - **Congressional Intelligence**: Comprehensive data on committees, members, staffers, bill tracking, and voting history. - **AI-Powered Assistant (Pryzm AI Agents)**: A personalized defense analyst that provides daily feeds of relevant contracts, awards, and news, and allows users to chat with an LLM trained on Pryzm's dataset. - **Orion™ Network Graph**: An interactive map that unifies data from budgets, CRMs, and research to reveal connections and relationships. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Total Funding**: $14.3M raised across multiple rounds, including a $2M pre-seed and a $12.2M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (closed in late 2025). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (lead in Seed round), Amplify.LA, XYZ Venture Capital, Forum Ventures, First In. - **Growth Signals**: - Raised $12.2M in a Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz in late 2025. - Received FedRAMP® High Authorization (2025-11-20), a critical security certification for selling to federal agencies. - Partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to streamline defense budget management (2025-03-20). - Headcount growth is strong, with a ~5.1% monthly increase, currently at 26 employees. - Founded by alumni of Palantir and Lockheed Martin, signaling deep domain expertise. - Track record of high-profile client wins among industry leaders. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep Domain Expertise & Data Moat**: Built by former Palantir and Lockheed Martin employees, giving them an insider’s understanding of defense and government markets. They have compiled the most comprehensive dataset of defense intelligence, covering over 2M opportunities, 30M contract awards, and 1.1M companies. - **FedRAMP High Authorization**: A significant barrier to entry for competitors, as this certification is often a mandatory requirement for federal contracts. - **AI-First, Purpose-Built Platform**: Unlike general CRMs, Pryzm is a purpose-built AI command center that integrates budget, congressional, and relationship data into a single workflow, addressing the specific complexity of government acquisitions. - **Network Effects**: As more contractors use the platform, the data on relationships, budgets, and opportunities becomes more valuable and defensible. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: - Scaling the platform and customer base following their recent $12.2M funding injection. - Deepening capabilities for both emerging defense tech startups and established prime contractors. - Continuing to achieve and maintain high-level security certifications (FedRAMP, DoD IL5). - Expanding beyond DoD into broader government agencies. - Building out their AI Agents to further automate and accelerate business development workflows. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Mission**: Directly contribute to accelerating national security and defense innovation by helping companies win critical government contracts. - **Elite Founding Team & Culture**: Built by Palantir and Lockheed Martin alumni, suggesting a culture of rigor, intelligence, and high performance. The team is still small (~26 people), offering significant ownership and impact. - **Cutting-Edge Tech Stack**: Work on a modern, AI-first platform that combines large-scale data, advanced analytics, and LLM-powered agents. - **Profile**: The company is well-funded ($14.3M) and backed by top-tier venture capital (Andreessen Horowitz), providing financial stability and growth resources. - **Growth Trajectory**: High growth environment (5.1% monthly headcount growth, recent funding round) presents excellent career advancement opportunities. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Based in Boston (90 Canal Street, near North Station). The specific remote/office policy is likely flexible and best confirmed during the interview process. The team also has presence in the UK. - **Notable Perks**: Working on a mission-critical problem for the U.S. government and defense ecosystem. Access to a network of top-tier investors and industry leaders. ## Sources 1. [Pryzm.io](https://www.pryzm.io/) 2. [Pryzm Careers](https://pryzm.io/careers) 3. [Pryzm Company Page](https://www.pryzm.io/company) 4. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pryzm) 5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pryzm-dynamics) 6. [Yahoo Finance (FedRAMP High Authorization)](https://finance.yahoo.com/) 7. 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