Principal Backend Engineer - CLEAR Path

CLEAR Path Principal Backend Engineer Cambridge, MA (Hybrid) About this position: Context Labs is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to help drive forward our product initiatives within our CLEAR Path platform.

Working as an integral leader within the development team, the engineer will head all aspects of developing our platform services, APIs, and 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 VP, Engineering.

In this role you will: * Lead the platform services engineering team as a technical authority * Develop and maintain APIs and services for use within the Immutably Platform * Collaborate with other development teams and the product owner to define and estimate business requirements and then translate these into specific software tasks * Hands-on software development in various projects and (minimally JVM) languages.

* Provide exemplary code, structure, design, etc.

for the platform services team to use as guidelines * Document designs, architecture, code * Conduct code reviews * Head technical talks on a variety of issues * Design and implement performant, scalable, and maintainable solutions * Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best-in-class software development * Coach and mentor members of your team through the variety of interpersonal, technological, and methodological challenges they face day-today * Coordinate a distributed team across multiple time zones Experience: * 10+ years of experience in full-stack development * Great communication skills * End-to-end understanding of modern application architectures * Big picture orientation with strong attention to detail * Comfort in dealing with highly abstract concepts and complex architectures is critical for this particular role * Experience with object-oriented development * Proficiency in unit and functional testing * Experience with RESTful API development and integration * Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring/DropWizard/etc.

* Experience with Docker based microservice architectures * Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or equivalent RDBMS * Experience with source repositories (git/Bitbucket) Preferred Experience: * Experience with functional programming * Experience with Kotlin/alternate JVM languages * 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 carbon reduction and climate change.

* Context Labs' mission is to transform complex data into continuously proven information.

Powered by Immutably, an innovative, trusted data fabric platform, our integrated solutions deliver context-driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends - and reveal the ground truth hidden inside the world's most complicated, persistent problems.

We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating.

Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role.

If you're interested in applying, please do so.

Context Labs embraces diversity and equal opportunity.

We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our products will be.

Context Labs will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

If you require accommodation, please contact Erica Mackoff at . Who we are: Context Labs solves big global problems by elevating trust in data.

Our Immutably Platform solutions enable individuals, companies, and governments to produce data-driven insights that can be irrefutably trusted and verified.

While the technology has broad application, our main focus is on climate initiatives that move the needle.We're a rapidly growing team of creative problem-solvers that leverage disruptive technology to crack the world's fundamental "too hard" challenges (such as decarbonization and water/food security). Do you want to have an impact working with smart, passionate people that push themselves, support each other and celebrate wins as a team?

Join us.

We are a team that is hiring and growing!

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