Senior Software Engineer- Telecommute Opportunity

Job Description

Who we are:

Dataminr puts real-time AI and public data to work for our clients, generating relevant and actionable alerts for global corporations, public sector agencies, newsrooms, and NGOs. Our leading AI platform detects the earliest signals of high-impact events and emerging risks from vast amounts of publicly available information. Our real-time alerts enable tens of thousands of users at hundreds of public and private sector organizations to learn first of breaking events around the world, develop effective risk mitigation strategies, and respond with confidence as crises unfold.

Dataminr is making its mark for growth and innovation, recently earning recognition on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Forbes AI 50 and Forbes Cloud 100 lists. We also earned accolades for ‘Most Innovative Use of AI’ from the 2020 AI & Machine Learning Awards.

Join our team and help the world manage risk in real time. You’ll work with 800+ talented people across eight offices, united by our passion to collaborate, make a difference, and have fun while doing it!

Who you are:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to be responsible for building reliable systems that deliver actionable information to our customers in real-time. Sets technical direction for significant parts of our microservices-based architecture, and mentors and trains other engineers. Helps build back-end systems to manage massive amounts of data. Works with distributed systems using microservices architecture and builds applications with OO languages (preferably in Java or Scala), using SQL and NoSQL data stores, and runs them in containers in a cloud environment. Builds the services and underlying infrastructure that allows us to deal with terabytes of unstructured data. Contributes code to production systems from the get-go and design significant features that impact multiple platforms and apps. Owns portions of our product suite and is responsible for reliability and scalability. Contributes to planning the next iterations of our architecture as we strive to get more alerts to our clients faster and with near-perfect reliability. May telecommute from anywhere in the U.S.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and 6 years related (progressive, post-baccalaureate) experience.
• Must also have 2 years of demonstrated experience with each of the following:

1. Building back end systems to manage data in a microservices architecture;
2. Building applications with OO languages (Java) using SQL and running them in containers in a cloud environment;
3. Developing RESTful web-services using the Spring Boot and Spring framework;
4. Developing unit/integration tests, CI/CD processes and production monitoring;
5. Developing software components with the application of software design patterns and system design principles;
6. Participating in the agile development process, including Scrum meetings, story estimations, and code reviews; and
7. Mentoring junior engineers.

• Will accept experience gained concurrently.
• May telecommute from anywhere in U.S.

Why you should work here:

• We recognize and reward hard work with:
• competitive compensation package including company equity.
• paid benefits for employees and their dependents, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) savings plan with company matching.
• flexible spending account for out-of-pocket medical, transit, parking and dependent care expenses.
• We want you to be your best, authentic self by supporting you with:
• A diverse, driven, and passionate team of coworkers who want you to succeed.
• Opportunities to own and drive important critical projects.
• Individual Learning and Development fund and professional training.
• Generous leave and flexible hours.
• Daily catered lunch and a fully stocked kitchen.
• And more!

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.