Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Jerry.ai, 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 will oversee system design, develop stream processing applications, optimize application performance, and collaborate with data scientists. Jerry.ai offers an opportunity to work on innovative technology and contribute to a company experiencing significant growth and market disruption. The company is backed by substantial funding and boasts a talented team with leaders from prominent tech companies.

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