Backend and Productivity Engineer

Founded in 2013 and fully owned by its founders, Linkurious provides the next generation of data visualization and analytics solutions powered by graph technology.

Our mission is to help teams of analysts or investigators in 100+ Global 2000 companies, governmental agencies and NGOs around the world swiftly and accurately find insights in complex connected data. We help these organizations make critical decisions and discoveries, faster.

Whether we are contributing to supercharge operational performance at Lockheed Martin and Airbus, helping the biggest banks in the world, but also Ria Money Transfer, Deloitte, Dun & Bradstreet mitigate risks and fight against financial crime, or supporting NGOs for world class investigations driving positive change - we deliver.

We are a diverse team of 45 passionate and creative people from all around the world (15 nationalities and counting), based in Paris, France and in Washington, DC, USA.

Your Role

We are looking for a Backend and Productivity Engineer to join our technical team and help us contribute to the code of product and platforms, help developers be more efficient, and enhance our developer experience. Our tools are built in Typescript/Node.js. You will work closely with product and infrastructure engineers across multiple teams to ensure smooth development workflows, reduce friction in the software development lifecycle, and promote best practices.

Your Responsibilities

As a Backend & Productivity engineer, under the supervision of the Head of DevOps, you will be responsible for:

• Contributing to the product and platform by defining, specifying, implementing, testing, reviewing and shipping new features and improvements (expected amount: ~2 days per week).
  • Making the life of the product and engineering team members easier: (expected amount: ~1 day per week): As teams grow in maturity, we need more streamlined and automated processes that reduce sources of friction for all team members. You will work hand in hand with team members to enhance their developer experience, their tooling, technical workflows and maintain CI/CD pipelines. You will develop, implement, and maintain tools to enhance developer productivity and efficiency, while identifying bottlenecks in the development process and then propose solutions to mitigate them. You will also monitor and optimize build and test performance. You will also advocate and train team members to increase their knowledge of best practices.
    • Helping migrate our product to the cloud (expected amount: ~1 day per week): We are currently selling our product on-premise and want to provide a more modern experience for our customers using cloud deployments. Your job will be to take part in helping improve our SaaS offering beyond its current scope by implementing features across the infrastructure.

You will work on a regular basis with developers, and non-technical employees.

Qualifications

• You have at least 4 years of experience working on software engineering topics in the Node.js ecosystem (Node.js, JavaScript, npm, TypeScript)
• You have previously worked with CI environments and understand CI systems (e.g. Jenkins), and ideally one automation tool (Terraform, Ansible …).
• You optionally have hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• You have previously used containers.
• You have a basic knowledge of IT security.

Your Profile

• You are self-motivated, you are eager to learn and you have a passion for solving problems.
• Your communication skills allow you to share knowledge with other developers and help them improve
• You have excellent interpersonal communication skills, you set your own schedule and priorities.
• You are a great teammate and you feel comfortable interacting with developers, as well as project managers and end-users.
• You want a job with real-world impact and the opportunity to learn a lot in a growing startup.
• You are authorized to work in the EU.
• You have good oral and written communication skills in English.

Technical Stack

Linkurious Enterprise, our main product, is written in TypeScript (Angular + Node.js) and deployed on-premises. We run evaluation instances of our product as SaaS. Linkurious Enterprise is backed by graph databases such as Neo4j, Azure CosmosDB or MemGraph, combined with Elasticsearch for full-text search capabilities.

Our infrastructure is hosted on IaaS on Linux and deployed using Kubernetes and ArgoCD.

Infrastructure is deployed using Terraform, driven by CDKTF using Typescript.

Our CI is driven by Jenkins.

Compensation & Benefits

Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the company's benefit programs, which currently include the following:

• 37.5hrs a week of working time
• 5 weeks paid vacations
• Approximately 3 weeks of RTT (additional paid vacations)
• Hybrid workplace or full remote depending on the candidate's situation
• Free health insurance package
• Sponsored nursery beds
• 50% of transit pass
• Lunch vouchers
• Free snacks & beverages

Yearly salary range: 60 000 — 75 000 EUR depending on experience.

Hiring Process

1. Screening (30min) - Head of DevOps (French or English)
2. Technical interview (2hrs) - Head of DevOps (English)
3. Meet the team
4. Meet the CEO (1hr)

Why join Linkurious?

Enter the revolution of graph technology

At Linkurious, we believe that the best data visualization and analytics solutions should work smarter, not harder. That the ideal solutions focus not just on technology, but provide superhuman strength to data-driven professionals.

We believe graph technology is a revolutionary way to make breakthroughs faster, to deliver key insights in a fraction of the time, to neutralize threats in just a few clicks. According to predictions by Gartner, graph technology will be used in 80% of data and analytics projects by 2025.

Changing the paradigm and driving positive changes

Pioneering the development of graph intelligence solutions, we make complex connected data easily accessible and intelligible to researchers, analysts and investigators - that's what we've been doing for more than 10 years now, with heart and passion.

We empower more than 10,000 users around the world to swiftly and precisely detect and analyze what remains otherwise hidden with traditional methods, helping them bring answers to the most challenging problems 10 times faster. We're helping our customers drive positive changes in today's world - and tomorrow's.

Helping unsung heroes

Those fighting for a world with less corruption, money laundering and other crimes deserve tools that are up to the job. That's why it only makes sense that we are doing our part to make life easier for the crime fighters in governments, financial institutions and NGOs, and harder for criminals.

In fact, The International Consortium for Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) used Linkurious technology to investigate the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers, the biggest data leaks in history. Among others.

Linkurious Values

• Our team is mixed and we value diversity, anyone is welcome;
• It's OK not to know, asking for help saves time and makes you grow;
• Meetings should be as short as possible, attendance in a meeting should have a purpose;
• Be kind, be candid, be helpful;
• Give and accept constructive feedback;
• When you feel something is going in the wrong direction, speak-up as soon as possible;
• Working overtime is not a sustainable strategy, we discourage it

Privacy

Linkurious is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read the privacy notice regarding Linkurious's recruitment process to understand how we will handle the personal data that you provide. More information at https://linkurious.com/recruitment-privacy-policy/