Senior Backend Engineer - DriveShield™

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary:

🚗 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 and 60X revenue growth in 5 years, we are scaling rapidly and aiming to become a $10B company. We are looking for driven individuals to help scale our product.

In 2024, Jerry.ai achieved a milestone year with nearly 50% year-over-year revenue growth and reached 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. Our growth is driven by forward-thinking technology; Harvard Business Review covered the success of our chatbot, and Jerry.ai is frequently mentioned in conversations about our use of GenAI, as seen in this Forbes article.

💻 About the Opportunity

We are seeking a purpose-driven Senior Backend Engineer to work on a critical, stealth project within our DriveShield™ team. This role is focused on enhancing driver safety and making 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, helping us scale from 5 million to 50 million customers and disrupt a $2T market.

🫵 How You Will Make an Impact

• Focus on the 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 QA.

🚀 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.
• Known for shipping products and features rapidly.
• Startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have).
• Previous knowledge of working with geospatial data (bonus).

Tech Stack

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

About Jerry.ai

Jerry.ai is America’s first and only super app designed to radically simplify car ownership, redefining how people manage one of their most expensive and time-consuming assets. Backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, Jerry.ai simplifies and automates car ownership and maintenance, providing personalized services for all car owners' needs. We are constantly innovating and improving 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 with a 4.7-star rating in the App Store.

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.