Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Jerry, a fast-growing, pre-IPO startup revolutionizing the car ownership industry, as a Senior Backend Engineer. You will contribute to a critical, stealth project focused on enhancing driver safety and impacting millions of lives. This role involves building scalable and high-performance backend systems, crucial for Jerry's rapid growth from 5M to 50M customers. You will focus on non-functional requirements like service availability, scalability, and reliability, and collaborate with data scientists on model deployment. The opportunity allows you to work on stream processing applications using Kafka and Flink and contribute to a company with leaders from top tech firms.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficient in at least one core language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, JavaScript)
• Expertise in Kafka, Flink and AWS
• Experience building stream processing applications
• Knowledge in system programming
• You’re an excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do
• You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast

Responsibilities

• Focus more on the non-functional requirements of backend applications, including service availability, scalability, reliability (fault tolerance), and possibly observability and security
• Oversee system design and architecture to ensure robust and scalable solutions
• Develop and optimize stream processing applications using Kafka and Flink
• Profile and optimize application performance
• Focus on the application side, collaborating with data scientists to deploy and integrate models in production
• Handle data processing, sanitization, validation, and data QA

Preferred Qualifications

• Startup experience at a high-growth company
• Bonus if you have previous knowledge of working with geospatial data