.Principal Backend Engineer - Immutably

Job Description

Salary:
Principal Backend Engineer (Core Immutably)

Cambridge, MA

Context Labs is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to help drive forward our product initiatives with our Immutably™ Platform and analytics spaces. Working as an integral leader within the development team, the engineer will lead many aspects of developing our platform services, 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 VP, Engineering.

• Provide leadership on the API services engineering team as a technical authority.
• Develop and maintain APIs 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 hands-on software development in various projects and (minimally JVM) languages.
• Provide exemplary code, structure, design, etc. for the platform services team to use as guidelines.
• Document designs, architecture, code
• Conduct code reviews
• Lead technical talks on topics relating to microservice based systems and processes.
• 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-today.
• Coordinate across a distributed team spanning multiple time zones.
• Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company.

• 12+ years of experience in full-stack development
• Great communication skills
• End-to-end understanding of modern application architectures
• Big picture orientation with strong attention to detail
• Comfort in working with and implementing highly abstract concepts and complex architectures
• Proficiency in object-oriented development
• Proficiency in unit and functional testing
  
  Proficiency in API development and integration (restful, graphql, grpc, etc)
• Experience with disparate Java frameworks such as Spring/Quarkus/Helidon etc.
• Proficiency with Docker based microservice architectures and the Kubernetes platform.
• Proficiency with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or equivalent RDBMS
• Experience with No
  
  SQL/NewSQL databases.
• Proficiency in source code management

• Experience with functional programming
• Experience with languages other than Java
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

• Context Labs is collaborative at its core. You’ll work within your team and across the organization allowing for continuous learning and discovery.
• We set goals that matter and provide value in all that we do, from building meaningful products to positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change.
• Context Labs’ mission is to transform complex data into continuously proven information. Powered by Immutably™, an innovative, trusted data fabric platform, our integrated solutions deliver context-driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends - and reveal the ground truth hidden inside the world’s most complicated, persistent problems.

We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. If you’re interested in applying, please do so.

Context Labs embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our products will be. Context Labs will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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