Senior Backend Engineer
Cointracker- Full Time
- Senior (5 to 8 years)
Candidates should possess 7+ years of experience building backend services and applications, with strong object-oriented design, API design, data modeling, data storage/retrieval, and programming skills. They should be self-orienting with a bias for action, and able to lead 0-1 projects while driving alignment across teams and functions. Experience mentoring and influencing Senior and Junior engineering team members is also required.
As a Staff Software Engineer, the individual will be responsible for architecting and delivering features for a large-scale, globally distributed platform and applications that ingest and process hundreds of thousands of data points per second. They will contribute code to production systems, implement industry best practices, and share responsibility for several microservices. Furthermore, they will design significant features impacting multiple services across team boundaries, partner with other team members to plan and deliver iterations of customer applications, and influence the next iterations of the architecture to improve reliability and speed.
Real-time AI for risk detection and alerts
Dataminr leverages artificial intelligence to detect early signs of significant events and emerging risks from publicly available data in real-time. Its platform provides insights to businesses, public sector organizations, and newsrooms, helping them respond proactively to potential threats and uncover stories before they become mainstream. The technology utilizes deep learning and multi-modal AI fusion to enhance event detection accuracy by analyzing various data types together. Dataminr operates on a business-to-business model and aims to empower organizations to effectively manage risks and respond to high-impact events.