Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) - Stream processing

Jerry is a rapidly growing pre-IPO startup revolutionizing the $2T car ownership industry in the U.S. With $240M in funding and 60X revenue growth in 5 years, they're on track to become a $10B company. 2024 marked significant success with 50% year-over-year revenue growth and first-time profitability.

The Senior Backend Engineer role focuses on a critical, stealth project within the DriveShield™ team aimed at enhancing driver safety. The position involves building scalable and high-performance backend systems crucial for Jerry's growth from 5M to 50M customers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing stream processing applications using Kafka and Flink
• Focusing on non-functional requirements like service availability, scalability, and reliability
• System design and architecture oversight
• Application performance optimization
• Collaboration with data scientists for model deployment
• Data processing, sanitization, and validation

The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of software engineering experience, proficiency in core programming languages, and expertise in Kafka, Flink, and AWS. The company culture emphasizes working with passionate, curious, and egoless people who love solving real-world problems.

Jerry's impressive track record includes being the #1 rated app in their category with a 4.7 star rating in the App Store, recognition in Harvard Business Review for their chatbot implementation, and mentions in Forbes regarding their GenAI usage. The team includes leaders from prestigious companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, NerdWallet, ByteDance, Square, and Meta.

This remote position offers the opportunity to join a company at an exciting growth stage, working on innovative solutions that impact millions of users while disrupting a massive market.