Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About the Role

Employment Type: Full time

Dataminr is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Customer Knowledge team in the UK or Ireland. This is a unique opportunity to architect and build large-scale, globally distributed applications that process hundreds of thousands of data points per second. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working with a highly skilled team to deliver impactful features that enhance our platform. If you thrive on solving complex problems and want to make a tangible difference in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply.

AI Innovation at Dataminr

Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold.

• Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold.
• Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground.
• Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages).

The Opportunity

• Influence the next iterations of our architecture as we strive to get critical data 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.
• Contribute code to production systems from the get-go.
• Share responsibility for several microservices and design significant features that impact multiple services.
• 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.

• 10+ years of experience building back end services and applications
• Experience with Java, Scala, Python and/or other object oriented programming languages
• Experience working with large scale distributed systems, microservices and real time streaming data
• Strong object-oriented design, API design, data modeling, data storage/retrieval and coding skills
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Proven track record of implementing and following strong engineering practices through hands-on coding
• Experience mentoring and/or influencing Sr and Jr engineering team members in evolving their skills as software engineers

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About Dataminr

At Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI-powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts.

Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.