Job Title: Software Engineer - Backend

Company Name: Dataminr

Job Url: https://dataminr.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Dataminr/job/US-Remote/Software-Engineer--Backend_JR1652?source=jobright&jr_id=68d4127b17554c2d9eef5cdc

Job Description: The opportunity 

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.

What you bring 

At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don’t meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed. 

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 (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

Excellent problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills

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