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Join our product engineering team as a Senior Backend Software Engineer to architect and scale the engine behind our real-time event detection platform. You ll leverage Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS to build high-throughput, event-driven systems that process billions of data points. This is a critical role focused on designing resilient distributed systems and robust APIs that power both our internal AI pipelines and external consumer applications. We seek seasoned backend talent to work in a fully remote position from anywhere in the UK or Ireland.

The opportunity

• Architect Distributed Systems: Design and implement scalable backend services using Node.js and Event-Driven Architecture (SQS/SNS, Kinesis, or Kafka) to handle massive data spikes.
• Data Modeling & Optimization: Own the schema design and performance tuning of PostgreSQL databases, ensuring data integrity and high availability for complex relational datasets.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Deploy and manage production workloads on AWS, utilizing Lambda, ECS, and serverless patterns to drive efficiency and reliability.
• Technical Leadership: Lead the technical design of high-impact features, performing deep-dive code reviews and mentoring mid-level engineers on backend best practices.
• Operational Excellence: Drive the "you build it, you run it" culture by improving observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and reducing technical debt through pragmatic refactoring.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with frontend and AI/ML teams to define robust API contracts and data flow strategies that support our multimodal AI capabilities.

What you bring

At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don t meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.

• 6+ years of professional experience in backend development, ideally with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Advanced experience with databases. E.g. Postgres (complex joins, indexing strategies, query optimization, and migrations).
• Proven track record of building and scaling applications on AWS (compute, messaging, and storage services).
• Hands-on experience designing asynchronous systems, message queues, and event streams to decouple services and increase system resilience.
• Strong experience building and maintaining production-grade RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL services.
• A disciplined approach to testing (unit, integration, and load testing) and a focus on writing clean, maintainable, and secure code.
• The ability to navigate legacy constraints while iteratively shipping modern upgrades without "big-bang" rewrites.