Staff Backend Engineer

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💎 Seniority level: Staff

📍 Location: Canada, EST, PST

🔍 Industry: Sales compensation management

🏢 Company: Forma.ai👥 101-250💰 $45,000,000 Series B almost 3 years agoArtificial Intelligence (AI)Information Services Sales Information Technology

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: SQLETLNosqlSparkCommunication SkillsData modeling

Requirements:

Prior experience designing and building complex backend solutions.
Solid background in schema design and data modelling, SQL and ideally some NoSQL solutions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
History of reducing ownership cost and improving reliability and observability in a product.
Deep appreciation for building end-to-end customer facing products with a strong sense of customer empathy.
Interest in being involved in product direction and establishing best development practices.
Thrive in a detail-oriented collaborative environment with Product, Engineers, and Analytics teams.
Big plus if you have a background working with Spark, or other ETL tools/frameworks.

Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Manager of Data Platform, the Staff Backend Engineer will play a critical role in the evolution of our Spark based data platform.
You'll lead development efforts for our complex, data-rich platform features while being an example to the team of code quality and thoughtful software design.
You will be working on the most challenging code at Forma.

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