Alation - Senior Backend Engineer - Golang/Python/Java

An independent contributor role who is the squad's technical owner. Opportunity to own business-critical components and services, powering key use cases for Alation's customers. The role is one of high ownership, large business impact, and executing on a future vision that will be loved by the customers.

Responsibilities :

- Own the design, development, and optimization of features and services.

- Solve critical technical challenges to help with faster and reliable delivery of software.

- Reduce technical debt and inefficiencies.

- Develop, maintain, and evangelize scalable, maintainable, and resilient source code.

- Create tools, automation, and processes that make daily development smoother.

- Work closely with the product team to suggest, analyze, and identify innovations and resolve product challenges.

Requirements :

- 8+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and shipping software products and/or n-tier services.

- Proficiency in any object-oriented language, preferably Golang, Python, or Java.

- Experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining microservices.

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

- Ability to learn through collaboration and apply the knowledge to the assigned tasks.

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar.

A Big Plus :

- Experience with Airflow, Kafka.

- Working experience in Kubernetes and/or Docker.

- Exposure to data modeling in RDBMS.