About Code Metal Code Metal is the leader in automated software engineering that uses formal verification to ensure correctness. Our customers include the U.S. Air Force, L3Harris, RTX, and Toshiba. Founded in 2023 with offices in Boston and San Francisco.

About the Role Our Modeling & Simulation team is building a next-generation wargaming and decision-support platform to help the DoD make multi-billion-dollar force-design decisions before they are made in the real world. The team spans simulation and physics, backend and data systems, frontend and geospatial visualization, and AI, turning operational questions into extensible, mission- and campaign-level simulations trusted by government users.

In this role, you'll lead the backend and data engineering team that builds Python services, APIs, and data systems powering our platform. You will balance people leadership with hands-on technical ownership—contributing Principal-level backend engineering judgment to architecture and code, staying closely involved in design and code reviews, and tackling the toughest technical challenges while growing a team of backend and data engineers.

What You’ll Do - Lead and grow a high-performing backend and data engineering team while remaining hands-on in the codebase. - Define the technical direction for backend services, APIs, data systems, and integrations across simulation, AI, frontend, and platform teams. - Design, build, and operate secure, reliable Python services, APIs, workers, and integration layers. - Translate product, research, and domain requirements into architectures,

About Code Metal Code Metal is the leader in automated software engineering that uses formal verification to ensure correctness. Our customers include the U.S. Air Force, L3Harris, RTX, and Toshiba. Founded in 2023 with offices in Boston and San Francisco.

About the Role Our Modeling & Simulation team is building a next-generation wargaming and decision-support platform to help the DoD make multi-billion-dollar force-design decisions before they are made in the real world. The team spans simulation and physics, backend and data systems, frontend and geospatial visualization, and AI, turning operational questions into extensible, mission- and campaign-level simulations trusted by government users.

In this role, you'll lead the backend and data engineering team that builds Python services, APIs, and data systems powering our platform. You will balance people leadership with hands-on technical ownership—contributing Principal-level backend engineering judgment to architecture and code, staying closely involved in design and code reviews, and tackling the toughest technical challenges while growing a team of backend and data engineers.

What You’ll Do - Lead and grow a high-performing backend and data engineering team while remaining hands-on in the codebase. - Define the technical direction for backend services, APIs, data systems, and integrations across simulation, AI, frontend, and platform teams. - Design, build, and operate secure, reliable Python services, APIs, workers, and integration layers. - Translate product, research, and domain requirements into architectures,