Backend engineer for system services

Context Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help drive forward our product initiatives with our Immutably™ Platform and analytics spaces. Working as a leader within the development team, the engineer will lead many aspects of developing our system 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.

• Lead the services engineering team as a hands-on technical authority, providing architectural and development guidance.
• Design, develop, and maintain APIs and platform services for the Immutably™ Platform, ensuring scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs, estimates, and development tasks in partnership with Product and Engineering.
• Establish engineering best practices through exemplary code, architecture, documentation, and code reviews.
• Collaborate within an Agile development environment to deliver high-quality software.
• Mentor and coach engineers, helping resolve technical and methodological challenges.
• Coordinate development efforts across distributed teams and multiple time zones.
• Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company.

• Strong full-stack development experience with an end-to-end understanding of modern application architectures.
• Expertise in distributed, peer-to-peer, and distributed ledger systems, including consensus algorithms and smart contracts.
• Experience with distributed protocols and patterns such as RAFT, BFT, Gossip, DHT, CRDT, Event Sourcing, CEP, and CQRS.
• Strong knowledge of cryptography and application security, including hashing, digital signatures, encryption, and data integrity/confidentiality practices.
• Proficiency with Java frameworks such as Spring, Quarkus, and Helidon.
• Experience with Docker-based microservices and Kubernetes.
• Strong database experience across relational, NoSQL, and NewSQL technologies, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache CouchDB, CockroachDB, FoundationDB, and Kafka.
• Proficiency in unit/functional testing and source code management.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and attention to detail, with the ability to balance architectural strategy with hands-on execution.
• Proficiency in source code management
• Будет плюсом: Experience with functional programming; Experience with logic programming; Experience with languages other than Java (Rust, Go, Erlang, Zig, C++ etc.); Experience doing development on technologies such as: Streambase, Voldemort, Accumulo, Aerospike, VoltDB and or Kafka; A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

• 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 carbon reduction and climate change.