Dataminr is looking to hire a Software Engineer, Backend to join their fast-moving product engineering team working on the future of their customer platform. The role involves delivering core features and functionality in both API- and stream-based platforms, contributing to the development of AI technologies like Regenerative AI, Agentic AI, and Multimodal AI to uncover critical events around the world as they unfold.
Requirements
- 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 (Postgres, 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
Responsibilities
- Contribute code to production systems from the get-go.
- Work across a diverse tech-stack and gain robust experience with widely-used technologies like Elasticsearch, Kafka, SNS/SQS, and Aerospike.
- Design significant features that impact core customer functionality and influence the next iterations of our architecture as we strive to deliver high caliber alerts to our clients faster and with near-perfect reliability.
- 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.
Other
- 4+ years of experience building back end services and applications
- Excellent problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills
- The base salary range for this position is $120,000-195,000.
- Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regard to race, sex, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.
