Senior Backend Engineer - EdgeShare

ContextLabs

Cambridge, MA

Full Time

Senior

8 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Cambridge, MA. Context Labs is seeking a Senior 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

7+ 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.
Work within a mission-driven company transforming complex data into trusted, actionable insights.

Working at ContextLabs

Context Labs is collaborative at its core. The company emphasizes setting goals that matter and providing value through its products, with a focus on positive impact on climate change. It values diversity and inclusion, and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. The company was formed out of MIT research and has a leadership team experienced in the growth of the Internet, with offices in Amsterdam, Cambridge, and Houston.

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