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Senior Backend Engineer

America's first and only super app to radically simplify car ownership, providing AI-powered services for all car owners' needs.
Toronto, ON, CanadaOttawa, ON, CanadaLondon, ON, Canada
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
501 - 1,000 Employees
5+ years of experience
AI · Automotive

Description For Senior Backend Engineer

Jerry.ai 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. In 2024, they achieved nearly 50% year-over-year revenue growth and reached profitability.

The Senior Backend Engineer role is part of the DriveShield™ team, working on a critical, stealth project focused on enhancing driver safety. This position offers the opportunity to build scalable and high-performance backend systems that will help scale from 5M to 50M customers.

The company boasts a talented team with leaders from NVIDIA, Amazon, NerdWallet, ByteDance, Square, and Meta. Their innovative technology has gained recognition, with Harvard Business Review covering their chatbot's success and Forbes highlighting their GenAI implementation.

Jerry.ai's platform serves as a comprehensive super app for car ownership, leveraging AI and machine learning to simplify everything from insurance and financing to maintenance and safety. As the #1 rated app in their category with a 4.7-star rating and over 5 million customers, they're positioned for continued growth and market disruption.

The role offers the chance to work with passionate, curious, and egoless people focused on solving real-world problems while building a revolutionary product in a massive market. The ideal candidate will be instrumental in developing robust backend systems, optimizing performance, and implementing stream processing applications using cutting-edge technologies.

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Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer

  • Focus on non-functional requirements including service availability, scalability, reliability, and observability
  • Oversee system design and architecture
  • Develop and optimize stream processing applications using Kafka and Flink
  • Profile and optimize application performance
  • Collaborate with data scientists to deploy and integrate models in production
  • Handle data processing, sanitization, validation, and data QA

Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer

Java
Python
Go
JavaScript
Kafka
  • 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
  • Excellent problem solver
  • Known for shipping products and features quickly
  • Startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have)
  • Previous knowledge of working with geospatial data (bonus)

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