Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Sayari is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Software Engineering team and own the development of new features across our stack. Our ideal candidate is a process-oriented self-starter with extensive experience in the software engineering world and interested in working on problems related to corporate transparency, anti money laundering, sanctions evasions, and combating financial fraud. If you are passionate about open source development and innovative technology, then we strongly encourage you to apply.

Our application tier is built primarily in Typescript, running in Kubernetes, and backed by Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Memgraph. Our data ingest tier runs on Spark, processing terabytes of data collected from hundreds of data sources. The platform allows users to explore a large knowledge graph sourced from hundreds of millions of structured and unstructured records from over 200 countries and 30 languages. As part of this team, you'll have the chance to contribute to our growing library of open source work, including our WebGL-powered network visualization library Trellis: sayari-analytics.github.io/trellis.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build, test, and deploy features across our tech stack
• Partner with product team to transform feature requests into actual implementations
• Participate in code reviews with fellow developers
• Work in an Agile development setting such as participating in sprint planning, daily stand ups, etc.
• Expanding the coverage and features supported by PostgreSQL
• Optimize database query patterns and empirically analyze the system for scalability

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years experience in programming web-based applications and REST APIs
• Proficiency in Typescript
• Deep experience with modeling and querying data in databases such as Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Memgraph, Cypher-based graph databases, or others
• Experience writing unit tests and integration tests
• Experience with at least one of the following technologies: Message Queues, Docker and Kubernetes, RxJS, Spark, WebGL, and React