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 company’s products.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• Full-stack development
• Demonstrated proficiency in distributed systems and consensus algorithms
• End-to-end 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 peer-to-peer 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 bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

WHO WE ARE:

Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing, organizing, and contextualizing the world’s 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 world’s 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 context-driven insights.
Building on the Immutably™ Enterprise Data Fabric platform, the company has deployed customer service layers (1) Decarbonization-as-a-Service™ (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 at-scale 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.com

• 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 hands-on 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 best-in-class software development.
• Coach and mentor members of your team through the variety of technological, and methodological challenges they face day-today.
• Coordinate across a distributed team spanning multiple time zones.
• Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company.