Senior Backend Engineer Jerry.ai is a fast-growing, pre-IPO startup on a mission to revolutionize the $2T car ownership industry in the U.S. With $240M in funding, 60X revenue growth in 5 years, and an ambitious plan to become a $10B company, we're looking for driven individuals to help scale our product. 2024 was a milestone year for Jerry.ai. We delivered nearly 50% year-over-year revenue growth while reaching profitability for the first time in our history. Join a talented team with leaders from NVIDIA, Robinhood, Amazon, Meta, ByteDance, Square, and more, and build one of the most exciting startups in the industry. And we're just getting started! Our growth is driven by forward-thinking technology; Harvard Business Review covered the success of our chatbot less than a year after its launch and Jerry.ai is getting mentioned in many conversations about our use of GenAI, such as this Forbes article. About the Opportunity We are seeking a purpose-driven 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. How You Will Make an Impact 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 Our Tech Stack Java and sometimes Python Stream processing: Kafka and Flink Hosting infra: AWS While we appreciate your interest and application, only applicants under consideration will be contacted. 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. Jerry.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@jerry.ai.