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

$165,000 - $185,000 a year

The target base salary for this position is $165,000-$185,0000 plus a quarterly bonus and equity. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including location, local market variances, candidate experience and expertise, internal peer equity, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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