Senior Software Engineer, Connectors team

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Connectors team at Dataminr, you will lead the research, design, and execution of high-performance connectors and integrations, linking the core platform to the broader tech landscape. This role involves deep systems thinking, hands-on coding, and mentoring an engineering team. You will be responsible for technical leadership, system architecture, defining data contracts, ensuring engineering excellence, and implementing operations and observability for your team's services.

Must Have

• Lead research, prototyping, and execution of new connectors using API/webhook-based integrations from conception to production.
• Design robust data flows and workflows, ensuring integrations are scalable, resilient, and maintainable.
• Partner with upstream engineering teams to define data contracts and collaborate with Product stakeholders to lead tradeoff discussions.
• Proactively identify and resolve technical blockers, ensuring testing frameworks are extendable and repeatable.
• Define and implement metrics for monitoring, alerting, and analytics.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and use Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Participate in on-call rotations for your team's services.
• 5+ years of professional experience with Python.
• At least 2 years of experience with Java.
• Deep working knowledge of building and consuming REST APIs, webhooks, and managing data contracts.
• Proven experience with microservices, serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda) and queuing systems (e.g., SNS/SQS).
• 5+ years of experience with deployment pipelines, version control (Git), and containerization (Docker).
• Proficiency in both SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) databases.
• Ability to contribute to high-quality technical documentation, including runbooks and knowledge guides.

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Offices all over the world to foster collaboration
• Generous PTO
• Sick leave
• Competitive benefits package
• Employee resource group (ERG) network
• Manager development programming
• Professional development funds

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Connectors team, you will be the technical anchor for our integration ecosystem. You will lead the research, design, and execution of high-performance connectors and integrations that link our core platform to the broader tech landscape. This role requires a blend of deep systems thinking, hands-on coding, and the ability to mentor a high-performing engineering team.

This role is based in Romania and can be either fully remote or based in our Cluj-Napoca office.

AI Innovation at Dataminr

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.

In this job, you'll get to...

• Technical Leadership & Autonomy: Lead the research, prototyping, and execution of new connectors using API/webhook-based integrations from conception to production.
• System Architecture: Design robust data flows and workflows, ensuring integrations are scalable, resilient, and maintainable.
• Contract & Requirement Ownership: Partner with upstream engineering teams to define data contracts and collaborate with Product stakeholders to lead tradeoff discussions between business requirements and technical feasibility.
• Engineering Excellence: Proactively identify and resolve technical blockers. You will be responsible for your own implementations, ensuring testing frameworks (unit, functional, and manual) are extendable and repeatable.
• Operations & Observability: Define and implement metrics for monitoring, alerting, and analytics. You will build CI/CD pipelines and be using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and participate in on-call rotations for your team's services.
• Mentorship: Actively coach and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high-quality code through constructive reviews.

What You Bring (Qualifications)

• Backend Expertise: 5+ years of professional experience with Python and at least 2 years of experience with Java.
• Integration Mastery: Deep working knowledge of building and consuming REST APIs, webhooks, and managing data contracts.
• Cloud & Serverless: Proven experience with microservices, serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda) and queuing systems (e.g., SNS/SQS).
• DevOps Mindset: 5+ years of experience with deployment pipelines, version control (Git), and containerization (Docker).
• Data Systems: Proficiency in both SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) databases.
• Documentation: Ability to contribute to high-quality technical documentation, including runbooks and knowledge guides.

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.

Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.

As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees. Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy. Explore all our benefits here.

We believe our differences give us strength. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more.

We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form. We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, colour, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.

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