- Job Type: Full-Time
- Function: Engineering Software
- Industry: Data Infrastructure
- Post Date: 05/25/2023
- Website: nexla.com
- Company Address: N Ellsworth Ave, San Mateo, CA, 94401
- Salary Range: $50,000 - $150,000
About Nexla
Nexla is the leader in unified data operations and a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor.Our platform makes it simple for anyone to create scalable data flows. Teams working with data get a no/low-code unified experience to integrate, transform, provision, and monitor data for any use case.
Job Description
Nexla is a data platform that processes batch, stream, and real-time data providing data integration preparation, quality, and operations capabilities.
Nexla’s tech stack users Rails for the admin layer that sits between the user interface and the backend data processing system. This layer is responsible for providing an API to Nexla that is used by our React-based UI, Python SDK, and Command-line tool.
This admin layer takes care of user accounts, organizations, permissions, creation, and management of all data entities such as flows, sources, destinations, transforms, etc.
As a Principal Engineer in this team, you will participate in both design and development of core Nexla capabilities and then implement the corresponding capabilities for the admin layer.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build and maintain the administrative layer of the Nexla application
Work closely with a Nexla co-founder and seasoned industry expert who has designed a phenomenal system leveraging the best capabilities of Rails and Active Record
Build and expose API interfaces that support Nexla’s UI, SDK, and command-line tools
Design and manage all entities - users, organizations, data sources, transforms, permissions, etc.
Be a key driving of creating new features for Nexla users
What You Bring to the Nexla Team
BS in Computer Science, related technical fields, and practical experience
10+ years of overall software development experience with a minimum of 5 years of experience working with Rails, Active Record, Ruby on Rails
Excellent Javascript programming skills for non-UI applications
Experience designing data models, working with databases
Strong understanding of database and cache performance. Ability to build efficient, and performant APIs
Excellent understanding of security for user-facing services and APIs
Ability to understand, comprehend and solve complex problems
Ability to work and adapt quickly in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and high-growth startup environment.
Experience and expertise in Java programming is a big plus
A strong understanding of algorithms and data structures, and their performance characteristics
Proficiency in working and developing on Linux
Diligent and prompt in responding to feature requests, bug reports, performance issues and ad-hoc questions
KPIs you will be measured on: programming proficiency, ability to think through various scenarios including usage, performance, and security. Quality and foresight in system design. Degree of motivation and efficiency.