Senior Software Engineer, Context Layer

permanent
Fully Remote

Only accepting applications from: United States

  • Design, build, and operate backend services that collect and reconcile business context from a variety of existing systems into governed Context Studio.
  • Build and evolve the certification and versioning workflow that lets teams trust a single definition of their metrics and data.
  • Contribute to the APIs and MCP-based integrations that let AI agents and BI tools query certified context directly.
  • Own reliability and data consistency for services that merge and reconcile information from many sources at once.
  • Partner directly with product on what gets built, not just how — and pick up frontend, tooling, or other full-stack work when it's the fastest way to unblock a feature or validate an idea.
  • Work cross-functionally with teams across the platform, including those building AI-powered features, to ship context-aware capabilities.
  • Provide considerate, timely review of your peers' pull requests and design proposals.

Experience

  • Extensive software development experience with Java, with the versatility and willingness to work across the full stack.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend services in production.
  • Experience designing and operating REST APIs.
  • Experience modeling and serving graph-structured or richly-relational data.
  • Experience integrating LLMs into backend systems.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-evolving problem spaces.
  • Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools in real production work.
  • Demonstrated experience with software engineering best practices.
  • Experience with data catalogs, semantic layers, or metadata/governance systems (e.g., dbt, Collibra) is a plus.

Salary and Perks

Pay range: $185K - $215K

  • Competitive pay and attractive stock grants.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Comprehensive benefits offering including equity packages.

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