Senior Backend Engineer - DriveShield™

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: [Salary information not provided]

🚗 Why Jerry.ai?

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.

• Milestone Year: 2024 saw nearly 50% year-over-year revenue growth and profitability for the first time.
• Talented Team: Join leaders from NVIDIA, Robinhood, Amazon, Meta, ByteDance, Square, and more.
• Innovation: Our use of GenAI is recognized, with our chatbot success covered by Harvard Business Review and mentioned in Forbes.

💻 About the Opportunity

We are seeking a purpose-driven Senior Backend Engineer to work on a critical, stealth project within our DriveShield™ team. Your work will enhance driver safety and make a real-world impact on millions of lives. You will play a key role in building scalable and high-performance backend systems to support Jerry.ai’s explosive growth, helping us scale from 5M to 50M customers and disrupt a $2T market.

🫵 How You Will Make an Impact

• Focus on non-functional requirements of backend applications, including service availability, scalability, reliability (fault tolerance), and potentially observability and security.
• Oversee system design and architecture to ensure robust and scalable solutions.
• Develop and optimize stream 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 quality assurance.

🚀 Requirements

• 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.
• Proven track record of shipping products and features rapidly.
• Startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have).
• Previous experience working with geospatial data (bonus).

Tech Stack:

• Languages: Java and Python
• Stream Processing: Kafka and Flink
• Hosting Infrastructure: AWS

About Jerry.ai

Jerry.ai is America’s first and only super app dedicated to radically simplifying car ownership. We are redefining how people manage their cars, one of their most expensive and time-consuming assets.

Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Jerry.ai simplifies and automates car ownership and maintenance, offering personalized services for all car owners' needs. We continuously innovate and improve our AI-powered app to deliver the best customer experience, covering everything from car insurance and financing to maintenance and safety.

We are the #1 rated and most downloaded app in our category, holding a 4.7-star rating in the App Store.

Application Instructions: While we appreciate your interest and application, only applicants under consideration will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity: 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.