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Senior Backend Engineer – Data Platforms
Context Labs BV. Serve as a technical authority, providing engineering leadership and architectural guidance .
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAirflowDockerGraphQLGRPCJavaKubernetesMicroservicesMySQLNoSQLPostgresPythonScalaSparkSpring
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Serve as a technical authority, providing engineering leadership and architectural guidance
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, performant, and maintainable data systems and services for the Immutably™ Platform
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, estimates, and development tasks with Product and Engineering
- Lead technical projects using Java, Scala, and Python
- Establish engineering best practices through high-quality code, architecture, documentation, and code reviews
- Collaborate within an Agile development environment to deliver high-quality software
- Coach and mentor engineers through technical and methodological challenges
- Coordinate engineering efforts across distributed teams and multiple time zones
- Perform other reasonable duties as required by the company
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of experience developing large-scale or “big data” systems
- Strong knowledge of modern application architectures
- Expertise with Spark, Flink, and Arrow, including large-scale query processing
- Experience with workflow orchestration and scheduling platforms such as Dolphin, Dagster, and Airflow
- Strong programming experience with JVM languages and Python, including Java frameworks such as Spring
- Proficiency in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and gRPC
- Experience developing data lakes/data fabrics and working with Databricks
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
- Experience with digital asset creation/registration, unit and functional testing, and source code management
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of technical initiatives
- Experience with functional programming (preferred)
- Experience leveraging AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, Claude Code, Bolt, and OpenAI Codex (preferred)
- Experience with languages other than Java (preferred)
- Experience with frameworks other than Spring, such as Quarkus or Helidon (preferred)
- Experience leading technical talks on microservice-based systems and processes (preferred)
- Experience with NoSQL/NewSQL databases (preferred)
- Experience with Delta Sharing, Iceberg REST, and similar protocols (preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (preferred)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Continuous learning and discovery through collaboration
- Meaningful work positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change
- Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities
- Diversity and equal opportunity commitment