Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Job Description

Job Description

We have partnered with a cutting-edge data company to make an important senior engineering hire. You will be responsible for collaboratively delivering technical solutions to the heart of their state-of-the-art data pipeline. You will work closely with several teams to design, develop, and execute new features and improvements, mentor junior engineers, and continuously improve their codebase. Your role will be pivotal in maintaining high standards of software quality to meet the needs of their customers.

You are a collaborative, customer-committed, and creative engineer

• Participate throughout the planning process, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and fellow engineers to balance technical feasibility with customer needs
• Implement and enhance solutions for telematics insights enabled by our processing pipelines
• Identify and measure key production performance metrics, ensuring scalability and efficiency
• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests for telematics solutions, ensuring safe delivery of features and fixes
• Ensure high bar for quality within our sphere of influence
• Provide expert guidance on cloud software architecture
• Keep the codebase healthy amidst increasing complexity
• Mentor junior engineers as needed

• Proven experience with development at scale
• Python and / or C++
• Continuous deployment, and test-driven development (TDD)
• Relational database (RDBMS) schema design
• Comfortable with AWS or similar services
• EC2, S3, Lambda, SNS, SQS, RDS (Postgres), Dynamo
• Terraform, Terragrunt
• Containerization with Docker
• 5+ years of relevant working experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience and / or certification