Staff Software Engineer, Search

Meeting your future team:

We are looking for a self-sufficient senior software engineer to join our growing engineering team. The mission of the Search Team is to deliver a world class Search experience driving our users' engagement in the Collibra platform. You will be working with the team to solve complex data challenges, developing innovation to amaze our customers with fast and reliable search experience returning relevant data with intuitive search queries.

You will collaborate with the cross-functional team and all dependent product teams for the success of the Search product. Your responsibility will be to support technical delivery and to create technical vision of the Search product, while working with teams spanning across different regions including Europe, US, Canada and Asia Pacific. We believe our customers are our North Star, they are at the center of everything we do, and we obsess in building products that solve customer problems and needs.

Staff Software Engineers at Collibra are responsible for:

• Designing, developing and maintaining new features to further improve our products with the special focus on Search capability within Collibra
• Developing efficient code based on OO Design Patterns and clean code principles
• Following agile process (Scrum) to make sure your deliverables are visible for the entire team and company stakeholders
• Establishing strong relationships across multiple teams to achieve results
• Taking direct ownership of challenges found and working collaboratively through these with others

You Have:

• Professional experience in building large and scalable Java applications based on Spring or Spring Boot in agile environment
• Experience in leading the technology and driving software development focusing on Search capability, working knowledge of ElasticSearch is a must
• Excellent communication skills to convey technical complexities. Ability to communicate effectively in English - we’re a global team and English is the most spoken language
• Work experience in building products intended for real-time on-demand environments e.g. SaaS, Internet/Digital, or Cloud Products
• Experience with Relational Database Management Systems (preferably PostgresQL)  
• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent related working experience is required

You Are:

• Interested in technology and the capability to adapt to new technologies and drive technical vision of the complex software solutions
• Agile-minded, optimistic, passionate, and pragmatic about delivering valuable software to customers
• Someone who puts quality first and has a passion for good design and clean code
• Able to work productively with a geographically distributed remote team and able to mentor and advise other engineers you work with on the scrum team
• An Open, Direct and Kind team player energized to drive and navigate change

Measures of success:

• Within your first month, you will get familiar with the environment we use, the way we implement software as an organization, simple business use cases and submit code to production.
• Within your third month, you will implement new user stories with quality and care, and understand what value they will bring to our customers.  
• Within your sixth month, you will be a productive member of theSearch team, reliably delivering quality code, participating in testing and on your way to set up technical vision for the Search capability in Collibra.

Benefits at Collibra:

We strive to provide all Collibrians with competitive and cost-efficient benefits that are aligned to our company values. As a high-growth company, our goal is to offer flexibility and choice with our benefits programs to support the evolving needs of our changing workforce. The specific offerings will differ slightly by region but our {Be}well benefit programs encompass the following strategic pillars:

• {Be}Healthy: Healthcare for yourself and eligible dependents (inclusive of partners/domestic partners), mental health resources and care, tax-advantaged accounts, income protection, discount programs and more! Additionally, we encourage employees to treat their whole self by offering a bi-monthly calendar of events and programming dedicated to our {Be}well initiatives which focus on wellbeing areas including emotional, professional & social, financial, physical, allyship & belonging and giving back.
• {Be}With Family: We offer multiple types of leave so that you can spend time with loved ones, including parental leave, caregiver leave and our annual family day. These are all complementary to our culture in which we value output over hours!
• {Be}Kind: Collibra For Good, Unconscious Bias & Allyship training, Manager Racial Injustice training and Collibra-led fundraisers.
• {Be}Unplugged: Our paid time off programs include vacation, holidays, sick time and compassionate/bereavement leave. We also offer remote-friendly meditation sessions and cooking lessons – all of which you’re actively encouraged to use!
• {Be}Informed: Competitive compensation, bonus potential, private company equity, merit reviews and promotion cycles, company pension, discounts programs, access to LinkedIn Learning, employee referral program, employee rewards & recognition, development programs and more!
• {Be}Together: Community and belonging with our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and personal interest groups, ERG-driven events, speaker series, and celebrations, a dedicated DEI council, the virtual Collibra cafe, trivia, bingo games and much more! 

When in-person (office) life resumes, we look forward to more snacks, catered lunches, team offsites and social events (think holiday gift exchange, fundraising events, happy hours, celebrations and more)!

Equal Opportunity:

At Collibra, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer – which ties directly to our core value, “open, direct, and kind.” We realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone. 

With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category.

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