Senior Backend Engineer - System Services

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will drive the design and delivery of system services and APIs for Context Labs’ Immutably Platform and analytics spaces. You will lead a services engineering team, set architectural direction, and mentor engineers while partnering with Product to translate business needs into scalable solutions. You’ll shape best practices, code quality, and cross-team collaboration across distributed teams and time zones. This role offers the opportunity to influence platform-scale architecture and contribute to climate-focused data infrastructure. You’ll work in a collaborative, impact-driven environment that values continuous learning and thoughtful engineering.

• Lead the services engineering team as a hands-on technical authority, providing architectural and development guidance
• Design, develop, and maintain APIs and platform services for the Immutably Platform with a focus on scalability and maintainability
• Translate business requirements into technical designs, estimates, and development tasks in partnership with Product and Engineering
• Establish engineering best practices through code, architecture, documentation, and reviews
• Collaborate in an Agile environment to deliver high-quality software
• Mentor and coach engineers, resolving technical and methodological challenges
• Coordinate development efforts across distributed teams and multiple time zones
• Handle additional duties as required by the company

• Strong full-stack development experience with end-to-end understanding of modern application architectures
• Expertise in distributed, peer-to-peer, and distributed ledger systems, including consensus algorithms and smart contracts
• Experience with distributed protocols and patterns such as RAFT, BFT, Gossip, DHT, CRDT, Event Sourcing, CEP, and CQRS
• Strong knowledge of cryptography and application security, including hashing, digital signatures, encryption, and data integrity practices
• Proficiency with Java frameworks such as Spring, Quarkus, and Helidon
• Experience with Docker-based microservices and Kubernetes
• Strong database experience across relational, NoSQL, and NewSQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache CouchDB, CockroachDB, FoundationDB, Kafka)
• Proficiency in unit/functional testing and source code management
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and attention to detail, with the ability to balance architectural strategy with hands-on execution
• Proficiency in source code management

• Collaborative mindset
• Mentoring and coaching abilities
• Clear communication
• Java (Spring, Quarkus, Helidon)
• Docker
• Kubernetes