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. This role involves building scalable and high-performance backend systems, impacting millions of users. You'll play a key role in Jerry's growth, helping the company scale from 5M to 50M customers. The position requires expertise in Kafka, Flink, and AWS, along with experience in stream processing applications. This is an opportunity to work on a cutting-edge project within a dynamic and innovative team.

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