Sr. Backend Engineer (Kotlin, Calcite)

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2 Locations
In-Office
Senior level
Software • Analytics
The Role
The role involves building a distributed query engine, developing microservices, solving data challenges, designing APIs, and collaborating with teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

We’re GoodData, a cloud analytics company helping businesses turn data into decisions. Our backend team is looking for a Senior Engineer who’s into clean code, smart architecture, and data processing at scale.

What you'll be doing:
  • Building a fast, distributed query engine using Kotlin and Apache Calcite

    • Developing an internal query language (MAQL) - parsing and transpiling into SQL

    • Developing and maintaining distributed microservices

  • Solving complex data challenges (data fetching, data processing, data transfer, etc.) with modern tools like Arrow, DuckDB, Pandas, and Polars

  • Designing APIs, writing test-driven code, and shaping product direction with your team

  • Collaborating with Product, QA, and Architects in a product-focused engineering team

Our Stack:

Kotlin (mainly), Python, Calcite, Arrow, DuckDB, Polars, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Git

We’d love if you:
  • Have strong coding and problem-solving skills

  • Know your way around SQL, distributed systems, and relational models

  • Have experience with Kotlin or Java

  • Are curious, independent, and care about clean, testable design

Nice extras:

Apache Calcite/Arrow, Python, Kubernetes, gRPC, protocol buffers, frontend interest (TS/JS), BI/Big Data experience

Work from Brno, Prague, or hybrid – flexible setup, great team, real impact.

About GoodData

At GoodData, we’re building the future of agentic AI for data intelligence.

Our full-stack data intelligence platform empowers companies to turn raw data into real business impact — from agentic AI apps to embedded analytics that scale securely and seamlessly. With GoodData, organizations don’t just analyze data, they monetize it.

But what really sets GoodData apart is our mission: to put intelligence wherever decisions are made. That’s why we’ve built a platform that’s AI-native, composable, and built for the way modern enterprises work.

#LI-Hybrid

Top Skills

Apache Calcite
Arrow
Calcite
Docker
Duckdb
Git
Grpc
Java
Kotlin
Kubernetes
Linux
Pandas
Polars
Protocol Buffers
SQL
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The Company
San Francisco, CA
341 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

At GoodData, we help companies turn data into insights. Our leading composable data and analytics platform gives our customers the flexibility to build and scale any of their data use cases — from self-service and embeddable analytics, to machine learning and IoT — all while maintaining the performance, cost-efficiency, and easy change management of a central and integrated solution.

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