Software Engineer, Backend at Dataminr

We are seeking a motivated engineer with a solid foundation in programming and a passion for learning. As a Backend Software Engineer you will be joining our fast‑moving product engineering team working on the future of our customer platform. In your day‑to‑day you will be working on delivering core features and functionality in both API‑ and stream‑based platforms. This US‑based role can be remote or based out of our New York City  office.

We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don’t meet every qualification.

• Contribute code to production systems from the get‑go.
• Work across a diverse tech‑stack and gain robust experience with widely‑used technologies such as Elasticsearch, Kafka, SNS/SQS, and Aerospike.
• Design significant features that impact core customer functionality and influence the next iterations of our architecture.
• Implement industry best practices along with novel patterns and technologies that will help improve the codebase and the product.
• Partner with other members of the team to plan and deliver the next iteration of our customer applications to support emerging use cases for our product.

• 4+ years of experience building back‑end services and applications.
• Experience with Java, Scala, Python and/or other object‑oriented programming languages.
• Experience working with microservices, distributed systems, real‑time streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.) and databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis, Aerospike, etc.).
• Strong object‑oriented design, API design, data modeling, and coding skills.
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Proven track record of implementing and following strong engineering practices through hands‑on coding.
• Excellent problem‑solving, communication and teamwork skills.

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