Backend Engineer

What You Will Own

• Design and Develop core data platform components for enabling business process orchestration and workflows.
• Build scalable, resilient services to support data integration, event processing, and platform extensions.
• Contribute to the continued evolution of product functionality that services large amounts of data and traffic.
• Write code that is high-quality, performant, sustainable, and testable while holding yourself accountable for the quality of the code you produce.
• Coach and collaborate inside and outside the team. You enjoy working closely with others - helping them grow by sharing expertise and encouraging best practices.
• Work in a hybrid cloud infrastructure, considering the implementation of functionality through several distributed components and services.
• Work with our stakeholders to translate product goals into actionable engineering plans.

What You Will Need to Accomplish the Job

• High integrity, team-focused approach, and collaboration skills to build tight-knit relationships across Weave.
• 3+ years of experience in any back-end language, i.e. Go, Java or Python (Go, Java, or C/C++ experience is a plus).
• Experience moving and storing TBs of data or 100’s of millions of records.
• Understanding of distributed systems and building scalable, redundant, and observable services.
• Expertise in architecting messaging systems, distributed data stores and NoSQL technologies (e.g., Kafka, Google PubSub, Bigtable, Spanner, Vertica, Vitess, S3, Iceberg, etc.).
• Experience building solutions to run on one or more of the public clouds (e.g., AWS, GCP, etc.).
• Experience with infrastructure as code, and setting up and maintaining highly available systems.
• Responsive person with a strong bias for action.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a thirst for learning.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering complex projects on time and have experience working in enterprise-grade production environments.
• Strategic thinker with a strong technical aptitude and a passion for execution.

What Will Make Us Love You

• A background with data analysis and visualization.
• 5+ years of experience in any back-end language, preferably Java, Go or Python.
• Management of distributed data technologies such as streaming, data mesh, data lakes, warehouses, or distributed machine learning.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with GCP.
• A background in operations such as networking, system administration, or DevOps/SRE.
• Enjoys working in a greenfield environment using rapid prototyping.