Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Position Overview

• Location Type: US-based (Remote or New York City office)
• Job Type: Full time
• Salary: Not specified

Dataminr is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their fast-moving product engineering team, focusing on the future of their alerting platform. This role involves architecting and delivering features for a large-scale, globally distributed platform and set of applications that ingest and process hundreds of thousands of data points per second.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building back-end services and applications.
• Strong object-oriented design, API design, data modeling, data storage/retrieval, and programming skills.
• Self-orienting with a bias for action.
• Ability to lead 0 to 1 projects and drive alignment across teams and functions.
• Experience mentoring and influencing Senior and Junior engineering team members in evolving their skills as software engineers.

Good to Have

• Experience with Elixir, Erlang, Scala, and/or other functional programming languages.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API and GraphQL best practices.
• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems, microservices, real-time streaming data, and messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS.

Responsibilities

• Influence the next iterations of our architecture to deliver critical data to clients faster and with near-perfect reliability.
• Implement industry best practices along with novel patterns and technologies to improve the codebase and product.
• Contribute code to production systems from the outset.
• Share responsibility for several microservices and design significant features impacting multiple services and crossing team boundaries.
• Partner with other team members to plan and deliver the next iteration of customer applications to support emerging product use cases.

Company Information

Dataminr is a mission-driven AI company that delivers real-time information from over 1 million public data sources, empowering organizations to respond to critical events and emerging risks before they unfold. Founded in 2009, Dataminr has a history and tenure in artificial intelligence, developing pioneering technology that redefines the future of real-time information. Dataminr has been recognized as one of the world's leading AI businesses and recently launched ReGenAI, the first generative AI.

Dataminr is a global company with over 600 talented individuals across global offices, united by a passion to use AI for the greater good and be agents of positive change.

Benefits

Dataminr offers a competitive benefits package:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options for employees, domestic partners, and their dependents.
• Generous PTO, flexible sick days, and remote working options.
• Paid parental leave and family-forming benefits.
• Mental health benefits and support.
• Company equity (RSUs).

Company Culture & Values

• Dataminr values employees for who they are and encourages them to be their authentic selves.
• Fosters a culture of allyship and stands up for those facing systemic barriers to equality.
• Leads with empathy and strives to be agents of positive change.
• Actively condemns racism and discrimination in any form.
• Empowers employees through opportunities such as a robust employee resource group (ERG) network and learning and development funds.
• Strives to reflect the world and clients served with a workforce built on merit and equity.

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