Principal Backend Engineer - EdgeShare

ContextLabs

Cambridge, MA

Full Time

Senior

8 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Context Labs is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to help drive forward our product initiatives with our EdgeShare Platform and analytics spaces. Working as an integral leader within the development team, the engineer will lead many aspects of developing our "big data" systems, APIs, and related product capabilities; as well as provide thought leadership, upskilling of less senior engineers, and taking part in defining strategic linkages across the company's products. This role will report to the SVP, Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Provide leadership on the EdgeShare engineering team as a technical authority
Develop and maintain data systems and services for use within the Immutably Platform
Collaborate with other development teams and the product owner to define and estimate business requirements and then translate these into specific software tasks
Lead various projects utilizing a variety of languages, as appropriate (Java, Scala, Python, etc)
Provide exemplary code, structure, design, etc. for the engineering team to use as guidelines
Document designs, architecture, code
Conduct code reviews
Design and implement performant, scalable, and maintainable solutions
Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best-in-class software development
Coach and mentor members of your team through the variety of technological, and methodological challenges they face day-to-day
Coordinate across a distributed team spanning multiple time zones
Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company

Requirements

12+ years of experience in "big data" systems development
Great communication skills
End-to-end understanding of modern application architectures
Experience with one or more modern data processing systems - including Spark
Proficiency with one or more modern process orchestration and scheduling systems such as Dolphin, Dagster, Airflow, and related technologies
Experience integrating large-scale query processing systems, ideally at the implementation level
Experience with JVM languages and Python
Proficiency in unit and functional testing
Proficiency in API development and integration (RESTFul, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.)
Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring
Proficiency with Docker based microservice architectures and the Kubernetes platform
Proficiency with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or equivalent RDBMS
Experience developing data lakes/fabric and tools/systems (Databricks etc.)
Experience and comfort level working independently
Proficiency in source code management

Nice to Have

Experience with functional programming
Experience with languages other than Java (Kotlin)
Experience with frameworks other than Spring (Quarkus/Helidon/etc)
Experience leading technical talks on topics relating to microservice based systems and processes
Experience with NoSQL/NewSQL databases
Experience working with the Delta Sharing protocols
A bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Benefits & Perks

Collaborative work environment that encourages continuous learning and discovery
Opportunity to work on meaningful products that impact climate change and carbon reduction
Be part of a mission-driven company transforming complex data into trusted, actionable insights

Working at ContextLabs

Context Labs is collaborative at its core. You'll work within your team and across the organization allowing for continuous learning and discovery. The company emphasizes building meaningful products that deliver value and positively impact climate change. They embrace diversity and equal opportunity, committed to creating an inclusive environment where individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. The company values a team that is growing and dedicated to innovation and impactful work.

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