Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer at Contiamo, your focus is on developing and implementing technical designs while expanding your technical and leadership skills within a learning-focused environment. You’ll shape solutions and standards by doing the following:

• Deliver Robust, High-Quality Solutions: Leverage web technologies, build APIs, work with relational databases, and implement event-driven systems (streams/queues) to create reliable, maintainable software.
• Engage in Technical Research and Evaluation: Participate in research and evaluation of tools, frameworks, and system design, with an emphasis on reliability and observability.
• Collaborate with Teams in Multiple Disciplines: Work closely with data science and AI teams across multiple clients to deploy Generative AI and ML-based applications, ensuring seamless integration and performance.
• Contribute Across Projects: Apply and advocate for engineering best practices, code quality, and maintainability. Lead the implementation on a primary project while supporting other projects through code review, design discussions, and technical spikes.
• Share Knowledge and Foster Collaboration: Get the opportunity to share your knowledge internally at “show and tells” or externally by joining technical workshops to provide input to clients. Support everybody by writing and maintaining comprehensive, clear, and well-structured documentation.

You’ve worked in technology long enough to demonstrate your ability to be an independent problem solver and can collaborate effectively with your team and external stakeholders. While you may not have mastered everything detailed below, you possess a majority of the following skills:

• Self-driven and curious, with a proactive approach to learning, improvement, and solving complex problems.
• Clear and effective communicator, able to adapt your style as needed for project success.
• Demonstrated commitment to quality, and are pretty good at balancing speed and reliability.
• Enjoy working across the entire spectrum of application development and data engineering from micro apps, distributed systems and streaming data, to data warehousing.
• Advocate for strong typing, type hints, and schema documentation (e.g. OpenAPI). Whatever it takes to have a strong data contract within and between applications.
• Proficient in Python (or a similar language like Go, NodeJS) with extensive experience building, debugging, and optimizing APIs, distributed systems, and/or data pipelines.
• Experience with modern technologies and frameworks including FastAPI, PydanticAI, Haystack, LangChain, OpenTelemetry, Procrastinate, databases like Postgres and Snowflake, queue systems such as SQS / Kafka, and Airflow.
• A commitment to DevOps principles, you understand how applications get deployed, including CI/CD, containerization, orchestration systems like Kubernetes, and how it impacts application lifecycle.
• Currently in Berlin or willing to relocate.  You must have or can obtain an EU work visa.

Contiamo is a premier consulting firm that brings together an interdisciplinary team of senior experts in data science, data engineering, mathematics, business consulting, and change management. Our extensive experience allows us to deliver high-quality data solutions, seamlessly integrating deep business know-how.

Our culture thrives on fast iterations and a high-trust environment where everyone is given significant responsibility. We believe in the power of a supportive atmosphere, valuing both individual contributions and the joy of teamwork.

As a small company, you will report directly to a managing director, and work closely with all engineers across the organization. When working with a client, you will be embedded in a smaller project team responsible for ensuring success of the engagement.

Our projects span a wide range of exciting data use-cases, including:

• Generative AI
• Data and AI strategy
• Data architecture and cloud data warehouse setup
• Building data-intensive applications and algorithms
• Advanced data science and machine learning

• Screening call (round 0, length: 30-35m)
• Experience assessment call (round 1; length: 60m)
• Take home Coding Challenge + Code Review (round 2; length: 75m)
• Meet the Team / Communication assessment (round: 3; length: 120m; in-person preferred)
• Optional: Meet the Partners (round: 4; length: 45 - 60m; in-person preferred)