Principal Backend Engineer - EdgeShare

Job Description

Job Description

Salary :

Principal Backend Engineer - EdgeShare

Cambridge, MA

About this position :

Context Labs is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to help drive forward our product initiatives with our EdgeShare Platform and analytics spaces. Working as an integral leader within the development team, the engineer will lead many aspects of developing our big data systems, APIs, and related product capabilities; as well as provide thought leadership, upskilling of less senior engineers, and taking part in defining strategic linkages across the companys products. This role will report to the SVP, Engineering.

In this role you will :

• Provide leadership on the EdgeShare engineering team as a technical authority
• Develop and maintain data systems and services for use within the Immutably Platform
• Collaborate with other development teams and the product owner to define and estimate business requirements and then translate these into specific software tasks
• Lead various projects utilizing a variety of languages, as appropriate (Java, Scala, Python, etc)
• Provide exemplary code, structure, design, etc. for the engineering team to use as guidelines
• Document designs, architecture, code
• Conduct code reviews
• Design and implement performant, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best-in-class software development
• Coach and mentor members of your team through the variety of technological, and methodological challenges they face day-to-day
• Coordinate across a distributed team spanning multiple time zones.
• Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company

Experience & Skills :

Preferred Experience :

Tools such as Github Copilot, Cursor AI, Claude Code, Bolt, Open AI, Codex, etc. across all disciplines

Why youll like it here :

We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. If youre interested in applying, please do so.

Context Labs embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our products will be. Context Labs will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please contact Human Resources at HR@contextlabs.com.

Who we are :

Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing, organizing, and contextualizing the worlds climate information. The company enables data to become trusted, shared, and utilized as Asset Grade Data (AGD), providing insights and solutions to inform markets. Context Labs mission is to provide the worlds trusted data fabric platform, delivering Asset Grade Data to customers using the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform, deploying machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and cryptographic blockchain technologies, for context-driven insights.

Building on the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform, the company has deployed customer service layers (1) Decarbonization-as-a-Service (DaaS), tailored to accelerate the Global Energy Transition, and its (2) CLEAR Path platform to enable customers to optimize value creation with the highest quality carbon credits. The company was formed out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research and is comprised of a leadership team that has been instrumental in the at-scale growth of the Internet, in prior companies. The company has offices in Amsterdam, Cambridge, Mass., and Houston.

We are a team that is hiring and growing! Learn more about Context Labs here :

www.contextlabs.com