Senior Backend Engineer - DriveShield™

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

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🚗 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.

2024 Highlights:

• Delivered nearly 50% year-over-year revenue growth.
• Reached profitability for the first time in our history.

Join a Talented Team:

• Leaders from NVIDIA, Robinhood, Amazon, Meta, ByteDance, Square, and more.
• Build one of the most exciting startups in the industry.

Innovation at Scale:

• Our growth is driven by forward-thinking technology.
• Harvard Business Review covered the success of our chatbot.
• Featured in Forbes for our use of GenAI.

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💻 About the Opportunity

We are seeking a purpose-driven Senior Backend Engineer to work on a critical, stealth project on our DriveShield™ team. Your work will 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.

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🫵 How You Will Make an Impact

• Focus 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 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.

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🚀 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 lightning-fast.
• Startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have).
• Previous knowledge of working with geospatial data (bonus).

Tech Stack:

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

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About Jerry.ai

Jerry.ai is America’s first and only super app to radically simplify car ownership. We are redefining how people manage owning a car, one of their most expensive and time-consuming assets. Backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, Jerry.ai simplifies and automates owning and maintaining a car while providing personalized services for all car owners' needs. We spend every day innovating and improving our AI-powered app to provide the best possible experience for our customers. From car insurance and financing to maintenance and safety, Jerry.ai does it all.

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

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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.