Senior Backend Engineer

Posted 8 Days Ago
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Toronto, ON
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Machine Learning • Financial Services
The Role
The Senior Backend Engineer will create scalable backend systems, focusing on performance and system design, and optimize applications with technologies like Kafka and Flink.
Summary Generated by Built In

🚗 Why us?

Jerry 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, 40X revenue growth in just 4 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. 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, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and more, and build one of the most exciting startups in the industry.

And we're just getting started! Jerry’s 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 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’s explosive growth. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the team that 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 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

  • Knowledge of multiple programming languages (we primarily use Java, Python - knowledge of these in particular not required)

  • Expertise in Kafka, Flink and AWS

  • Experience building stream processing applications

  • Knowledge in system programming

  • You’re an excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do

  • 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

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

Jerry 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 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 [email protected]

About Jerry:

Jerry is America’s first and only AllCar™ app. We are redefining and radically improving how people manage owning a car, one of their most expensive and time-consuming assets. 

Backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, Jerry 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 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. We have more than 5 million customers — and we’re just getting started. 

Jerry was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs and has raised more than $240 million in financing.

Join our team and work with passionate, curious and egoless people who love solving real-world problems. Help us build a revolutionary product that’s disrupting a massive market.

Top Skills

AWS
Flink
Java
Kafka
Python
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The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
296 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

At Jerry, we’re building a car ownership super app that puts comparison shopping, financing, driving, maintenance and parking solutions at your fingertips and savings in your wallet.

We believe drivers deserve better. Why can’t shopping for insurance, financing and maintaining your vehicle be a click, a swipe or a text away? It should be. We’re making that happen.

Our custom artificial intelligence, machine learning and bots allow us to provide the best, personalized service for all car ownership needs. The Jerry team’s focus on customer experience results in exceptional transaction speed. With our first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. That’s why we’re the only car insurance marketplace that gives you the best, customized quotes from more than 55 name-brand insurance carriers in 45 seconds. Jerry helps drivers shop for the best price, compare against current coverage, purchase without a single phone call (unless you want one!) and maintain the best policy for your needs.

Led by serial entrepreneurs, tech elite alumni, and fintech, insurtech and auto experts, Jerry attracts people driven to create a customer experience that makes people happy by saving them money and time. And it’s working. Jerry is the #1 rated and most downloaded app in the category.

With headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley, offices in Toronto and Buffalo, and remote team members in four countries, Jerry has removed physical location from recruiting restraints to capture top talent. Join us.

Awards:
-One of only 50 U.S. startups to be named a LinkedIn Top Startup 2021.
-Featured as one of 150 fastest-growing companies to accelerate your career by Otta in 2021.
-Included in Forbes and Statista America’s Best Startup Employers 2022.
-Ranked on Y-Combinator Top Companies List 2022.
-Art Agrawal Named on of The Top 25 InsurTech CEOs 2022.

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