Principal Backend Engineer - Immutably

ZipRecruiter; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in climate information is looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to drive product initiatives within their Immutably Platform. This role involves leadership, API development, and offering guidance to less senior engineers while collaborating cross-functionally to achieve strategic objectives.

Benefits

Collaborative working environment

Continuous learning opportunities

Impact on climate change

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in full-stack development.
• Detailed experience with authentication and authorization systems.
• End-to-end understanding of modern application architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead API services engineering team as a technical authority.
• Develop and maintain APIs and services for Immutably Platform.
• Document designs, architecture, and conduct code reviews.

Skills

Communication

Object-oriented development

API development and integration

Unit and functional testing

Proficiency with Docker

Database management

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Java

Docker

Kubernetes

Spring

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Principal Backend Engineer - Immutably

Cambridge, MA

About this position:

Context Labs is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to help drive forward our product initiatives with our Immutably Platform and analytics spaces. Working as an integral leader within the development team, the engineer will lead many aspects of developing our platform services, APIs, and related product capabilities; as well as provide thought leadership, upskilling of less senior engineers, and taking part in defining strategic linkages across the company's products. This role will report to the SVP, Engineering.

In this role you will:

1. Provide leadership on the API services engineering team as a technical authority.
2. Develop and maintain APIs and services for use within the Immutably Platform.
3. Collaborate with other development teams and the product owner to define and estimate business requirements and then translate these into specific software tasks.
4. Lead hands-on software development in various projects and (minimally JVM).
5. Provide exemplary code, structure, design, etc. for the platform services team to use as guidelines.
6. Document designs, architecture, code.
7. Conduct code reviews.
8. Design and implement performant, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
9. Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best-in-class software development.
10. Coach and mentor members of your team through the variety of technological, and methodological challenges they face day-to-day.
11. Coordinate across a distributed team spanning multiple time zones.
12. Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company.

Experience & Skills:

1. 12+ years of experience in full-stack development.
2. Great communication skills.
3. Detailed experience with authentication and authorization systems (Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, OAuth, or similar).
4. Familiarity with distributed authorization systems like OPA, Zanzibar, etc.
5. Experience and comfort working independently.
6. End-to-end understanding of modern application architectures.
7. Proficiency in object-oriented development.
8. Proficiency in unit and functional testing.
9. Proficiency in API development and integration (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC, etc).
10. Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring.
11. Proficiency with Docker-based microservice architectures and Kubernetes.
12. Proficiency with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or equivalent RDBMS.
13. Proficiency in source code management.

Additional Experience:

1. Experience with functional programming.
2. Experience with languages other than Java (Kotlin).
3. Experience with frameworks other than Spring (Quarkus/Helidon/etc.).
4. Experience leading technical talks on microservice-based systems.
5. Experience with NoSQL/NewSQL databases.
6. Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.

Why you'll like it here:

• Context Labs is collaborative at its core. You’ll work within your team and across the organization, allowing for continuous learning and discovery.
• We set goals that matter and provide value in all that we do, from building meaningful products to positively impacting climate change.
• Our mission is to transform complex data into proven information, powered by Immutably, our trusted data fabric platform, delivering insights that enable pattern recognition and trend analysis.

We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single requirement, and we value diverse skills and backgrounds. If you're interested, please apply.

Context Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion. If you require accommodation during the application process, contact Human Resources at [e-mail].

Who we are:

Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing, organizing, and contextualizing the world's climate information. We provide trusted data solutions to inform markets, leveraging machine learning, AI, and blockchain technologies. Our platform, Immutably, supports decarbonization efforts and carbon credit optimization. Founded out of MIT research, we have offices in Amsterdam, Cambridge, and Houston.

Learn more at www.contextlabs.com