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Senior Backend Developer - Data Platform
- Montreal / Quebec City (Province of Quebec, Canada)
- Research and Development
- Full-time
- Hybrid
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State-of-the-art event streaming data platform!
Coveo is the Relevance Company—empowering businesses to deliver highly personalized and meaningful user experiences. In today’s experience-driven economy, this relevance is a key competitive advantage.
As customers enhance their websites with Coveo, user interactions are captured and processed through our ultra-fast data pipeline. This enables our AI models to analyze behavior in real time and personalize each journey instantly. To maintain this level of speed, reliability, and scalability—especially as data volumes grow—we rely on efficient validation, enrichment, and processing. That’s where you come in as a Senior Backend Developer. Here we need to keep up with the ever increasing data volumes and broadening requirements. To continue to deliver the best experiences to our customers, we need your help!
Here is a glimpse of your responsibilities:
- Design and implement a scalable event ingestion pipeline to collect user interaction data in real time.
- Ensure the pipeline supports schema validation, fault tolerance, and data enrichment before forwarding events to downstream consumers for personalization services.
- Design and implement scalable web services or APIs that provide context and access to real-time relevance systems, leveraging the data processed by the platform to deliver highly personalized and meaningful user experiences.
- Ensure excellent observability for our systems by integrating monitoring and alerting to ensure highly available and reliable systems, collaborating with the infrastructure team.
Here is what will qualify you for the role:
- Experience building large scale distributed systems.
- Experience with both batch and streaming data processing frameworks like AWS Kinesis, Firehose, Lambda or any other relevant data streaming technology like Kafka.
- Experience with NoSQL databases like DynamoDB or similar databases that support high-performance, real-time data storage and retrieval.
- Experience developing APIs and libraries using object-oriented languages like Java or similar.
- Outstanding communication skills and ability to drive projects to successful completion.
Here is what would make you stand out:
- You have experience with Spring based applications.
- You Master Kubernetes and monitoring tools such as Prometheus.
- You have experience with infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform.
If you’re curious about our work, find more here:
- Tech Blog : https://source.coveo.com/
- GitHub : https://github.com/Coveo; https://github.com/coveooss
Documentation : https://developers.coveo.com/
Want to know more? Check out this blog post from our colleague, Kevin, that has a great example of our work: https://source.coveo.com/2023/09/14/patterns-for-project-failure/
Send us your application, we want to get to know you!
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We encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background. We know that applying for a new role is a lot of work and we really appreciate your time.
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Coveo is a Quebec-based company, pioneer in AI-powered search and recommendations. Coveo uses AI technologies and intelligent search to personalize every digital experience for customers, partners, dealers, and employees. Coveo combines unified content, unified interactions behavioral data and machine learning to deliver relevant information and recommendations across every business interaction, making websites, e-commerce, contact centers and intranets efficient, effortless, content-rich, thus boosting conversion.
If it were easy, someone else would have done it. All of our colleagues at Coveo find the drive to continuously seek new challenges and test roads no one else has ever explored. This ethos has allowed us to become a world leader in an innovative industry and to create a collaborative, diverse and trusting place to work filled with amazingly talented and passionate people. We love a good challenge, and we never say no to an opportunity to learn and develop new cutting-edge skills. Discover our values here
In-person
This role requires you to be in the office full-time, whether it be at our Quebec, Montreal, Weert, or London locations. Our modern infrastructures are designed to enhance cross-team collaboration and promote overall well-being.
Hybrid
Our offices in Quebec City, Montreal, London and Weert are designed to foster collaboration and your well-being. We gather there on our pillar days two times a week to strengthen in-person interactions and encourage creativity, all while providing you with the flexibility of a hybrid environment.
Remote
We hire from all over the world because the diversity of backgrounds fuels our continuous innovation. Our benefits will enable you to work comfortably from home, but you may be required to travel to attend our in-person team-building events.
