Staff Backend Engineer
Company:Forma.ai
Location:Canada, EST, PST
Languages:English
Seniority level:Staff
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.
