Jerry

Senior Backend Engineer - Real-time data processing

Jerry

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSGoJavaJavaScriptKafkaPython

About the role

  • Senior Backend Engineer to work on a critical, stealth project on our DriveShield™ team to enhance driver safety and make a real-world impact on the lives of millions.
  • You will play a key role in building scalable and high-performance backend systems that power Jerry.ai’s explosive growth.
  • This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the team that helps us go from 5M to 50M customers and disrupt a $2T market while driving innovation at scale.
  • 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 real-time data 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

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficient in at least one core language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, JavaScript)
  • Expertise in Kafka Streams, Flink or similar real-time data processing frameworks
  • Experience building real-time data processing applications
  • You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast
  • Startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have)
  • Bonus if you have previous knowledge of working with geospatial data