Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

Senior Backend Engineer Distributed Systems

Cambridge MA

About this position:
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 distributed ledger 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 companys products.

In this role you will:

• Lead the Scrivener & Trust services engineering team as a technical authority.
• Develop and maintain distributed ledger 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.
• Lead handson software development of Scrivener and related projects using multiple (minimally JVM) languages.
• Provide exemplary code structure design etc. for the platform services team to use as guidelines.
• Document designs architecture and 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 bestinclass software development.
• Coach and mentor members of your team through the variety of technological and methodological challenges they face daytoday.
• Coordinate across a distributed team spanning multiple time zones.
• Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company.

Experience & Skills:

• Fullstack development
• Demonstrated proficiency in distributed systems and consensus algorithms
• Endtoend understanding of modern application architectures
• Big picture orientation with strong attention to detail
• Proficiency in unit and functional testing
• Great communication skills
• Demonstrated proficiency in peertopeer systems and other networking architectures
• Demonstrated proficiency in one or more distributed ledgers and one or more smart contract languages
• Strong understanding of cryptographic principles including hashing digital signatures and encryption techniques.
• Experience in implementing security best practices to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of persistent data.
• Experience implementing Event Sourcing CEP and/or CQRS
• Experience with protocols such as RAFT BFT Gossiping DHT and or CRDT
• Experience with databases such as Apache CouchDB Cockroach DB Foundation DB and Kafka
• Experience with disparate Java frameworks such as Spring/Quarkus/Helidon etc.
• Proficiency with Docker based microservice architectures and the Kubernetes platform.
• Proficiency with MySQL PostgreSQL or equivalent RDBMS
• Experience with NoSQL/NewSQL databases.
• Proficiency in source code management

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with functional 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 bachelors degree in computer science or related field

Why youll like it here:

• Context Labs is collaborative at its core. Youll 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.
• an innovative trusted data fabric platform our integrated solutions deliver contextdriven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns correlate trends and reveal the ground truth hidden inside the worlds 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 youre 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 Human Resources at

Who we are:

Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing organizing and contextualizing the worlds climate information. The company enables data to become trusted shared and utilized as Asset Grade Data (AGD) providing insights and solutions to inform markets. Context Labs mission is to provide the worlds trusted data fabric platform delivering Asset Grade Data to customers using the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform deploying machine learning Artificial Intelligence and cryptographic blockchain technologies for contextdriven insights.

Building on the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform the company has deployed customer service layers 1 DecarbonizationasaService (DaaS) tailored to accelerate the Global Energy Transition and its 2 CLEAR Path platform to enable customers to optimize value creation with the highest quality carbon credits. The company was formed out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research and is comprised of a leadership team that has been instrumental in the atscale growth of the Internet in prior companies. The company has offices in Amsterdam Cambridge Mass. and Houston.

We are a team that is hiring and growing! Learn more about Context Labs here:

www.contextlabs