Jerry.ai is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in Toronto to work on a critical, stealth project within the DriveShield™ team. Your work will directly enhance driver safety and make a real-world impact. You will play a key role in building scalable, high-performance backend systems that power our explosive growth.

What You'll Do

Focus on non-functional requirements including service availability, scalability, and reliability.
Oversee system design and architecture to ensure robust solutions.
Develop and optimize real-time data processing applications using Kafka and Flink.
Profile and optimize application performance.
Collaborate with data scientists to deploy and integrate models in production.
Handle data processing, sanitization, validation, and data QA.

What We're Looking For

5+ years of software engineering experience.
Proficient in at least one core language like Java, Python, Go, or 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.

Nice to Have

Startup experience at a high-growth company.
Previous knowledge of working with geospatial data.

Technical Stack

Java
Python
Kafka
Flink
AWS

Team & Environment

You will join the DriveShield™ team, a mission-driven group focused on revolutionizing the car ownership industry. We have leaders from top tech companies and work with passionate, curious, and egoless people who love solving real-world problems.

Work Mode

This position is based locally in our Toronto office.

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.