Jerry.ai is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the DriveShield™ team. You will work on a critical, stealth project focused on enhancing driver safety and making a real-world impact. This role involves building the scalable, high-performance backend systems that power the company's growth.
What You'll Do
- Focus on the non-functional requirements of backend applications, including service availability, scalability, reliability, and potentially observability and security.
- Oversee system design and architecture to ensure robust and scalable solutions.
- Develop and optimize real-time data processing applications using Kafka and Flink.
- Profile and optimize application performance.
- Collaborate with data scientists to deploy and integrate models into production.
- Handle data processing, sanitization, validation, and data QA.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proficient in at least one core language such as Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript.
- Expertise in Kafka Streams, Flink, or similar real-time data processing frameworks.
- Experience building real-time data processing applications.
- A proven track record of shipping products and features rapidly.
Nice to Have
- Startup experience at a high-growth company.
- Previous knowledge of working with geospatial data.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Java and sometimes Python.
- Stream processing: Kafka and Flink.
- Hosting infrastructure: AWS.
Team & Environment
You will join the DriveShield™ team and collaborate with a talented group of professionals, including leaders from companies like NVIDIA, Robinhood, Amazon, Meta, ByteDance, and Square. The culture is built around passionate, curious, and egoless people who love solving real-world problems.
Jerry.ai is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.
