Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Join our product engineering team as a Senior Backend Software Engineer to architect and scale the engine behind our real‑time event detection platform. You’ll leverage Node.js, Postgre

SQL, and AWS to build high‑throughput, event‑driven systems that process billions of data points. This is a critical role focused on designing resilient distributed systems and robust APIs that power both our internal AI pipelines and external consumer applications. We seek seasoned backend talent to work in a fully remote position from anywhere in the UK or Ireland.

Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold.

Regenerative AI
: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real‑time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here.

Agentic AI
: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real‑time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more here

Multimodal AI
: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here.

• Architect Distributed Systems:
  Design and implement scalable backend services using Node.js and Event‑Driven Architecture (SQS/SNS, Kinesis, or Kafka) to handle massive data spikes.
• Data Modeling & Optimization:
  Own the schema design and performance tuning of Postgre
  
  SQL databases, ensuring data integrity and high availability for complex relational datasets.
• Cloud Infrastructure:
  Deploy and manage production workloads on AWS, utilizing Lambda, ECS, and serverless patterns to drive efficiency and reliability.
• Technical Leadership:
  Lead the technical design of high‑impact features, performing deep‑dive code reviews and mentoring mid‑level engineers on backend best practices.
• Operational Excellence:
  Drive the "you build it, you run it" culture by improving observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and reducing technical debt through pragmatic refactoring.
• Cross‑Functional
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Partner with frontend and AI/ML teams to define robust API contracts and data flow strategies that support our multimodal AI capabilities.

At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don’t meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.

• 6+ years of professional experience in backend development, ideally with Node.js and Type Script.
• Advanced experience with databases.
  
  E.g. Postgres (complex joins, indexing strategies, query optimization, and migrations).
• Proven track record of building and scaling applications on AWS (compute, messaging, and storage services).
• Hands‑on experience designing asynchronous systems, message queues, and event streams to decouple services and increase system resilience.
• Strong experience building and maintaining production‑grade RESTful APIs and/or Graph
  
  QL services.
• A disciplined approach to testing (unit, integration, and load testing) and a focus on writing clean, maintainable, and secure code.
• The ability to navigate legacy constraints while iteratively shipping modern upgrades without "big‑bang" rewrites.

At Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real‑world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI‑powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two‑thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts.

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