Senior Engineer,Backend Platform Job Chicago area,Illinois USA,Software Development

Who we are

At Spot Hero, we work as a team to empower people to get everywhere, easier! We’re rapidly growing with the mission of bringing the parking industry into the future through technology. Drivers across the nation use the Spot Hero mobile app and website to reserve convenient, affordable parking in advance, on-the-go or through their connected cars, and parking companies rely on us to help them reach new customers while optimizing their business.

We connect the dots with cutting‑edge technology, delivering value to both sides of this exciting, evolving marketplace.

Senior Engineer, Backend Platform at Spot Hero

Spot Hero is looking for an experienced Senior Engineer who is passionate about working with distributed services and the challenges associated with them. This engineer will be actively contributing to our Python/Django and Go Backend stack, while also enabling other Spot Hero engineers to develop and test within this ecosystem.

Qualifications

5+ years experience as engineer across multiple environments and codebases.
3+ years experience working with Python and Django
Knowledgeable of object-oriented and/or functional programming patterns and paradigms.
Ability to work in all areas of the tech stack, including infrastructure through the application layer to client libraries.
Strong experience working with relational databases like Postgres and mySQL.
Knowledge of various API paradigms such as REST and RPC and can implement them within the services you are developing on.
Proven ability to develop, load test, and monitor performant web services.
Deep understanding of how to work on a team, direct their own work, and ask for help when needed.
Skilled in developing functionality and logic using distributed systems.

Nice to haves

GoLang experience
Kotlin & JVM experience
Deep experience in developing testing patterns
Experience instrumenting authentication and authorization patterns
Experience developing Kafka services

Systems / Tools

Services, Python, Go Lang
IDE’s, debuggers, open-source tools
Kubernetes, Jaeger, Grafana, Sentry, Prometheus, Sumo Logic, Concourse, Kafka, Splunk On-call, Confluence, Jira, Google Suite, Git Hub, Terraform
AWS: EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Red Shift, RDS

Key Responsibilities Engineering / Writing Code

Be a hands‑on contributor to the design and implementation of new products and features supporting the engineering organization’s technical strategy.

Identify, design, develop, test, and release high‑quality functionality as efficiently as possible.

Build and maintain internal and external tools and services related to the product/engineering squad’s goals.

Collaboration

Work collaboratively with the rest of the team, including product management, to deliver quality products with a focus on speed, security, and analytics.

Collaborate with all senior and staff level engineers to explore options and help define architecture and design across the engineering organization.

Education

Provide code review and empathetic, thoughtful feedback to peers (Engineer I, II, III) to help them produce code that meets standards.

Write documentation on what the squad plans to do, is doing, and has completed; documentation should be accessible and enable productive discussions within the squad and/or other teams.

Growth

Identify areas for improvement and innovation within the squad ecosystem by investigating and proposing new technologies and best practices, and leading the charge on implementing them.

Quality

Ownership of the codebase, maintaining it and ensuring it runs consistently.

Secure and safeguard data to preserve its integrity, reliability, and availability, ensuring appropriate access levels.

Participate in an on‑call support rotation.

Seeking Candidates in

Chicago, IL

What we are offering

Career game‑changer – a truly unique experience to work for a fast‑growing startup in a role with unlimited growth potential.
Excellent benefits
- We cover a generous portion of medical premiums, 50% of dental and vision premiums, company‑sponsored life insurance, STD, and AD&D coverage, a 401(k) with match and immediate vesting, and comprehensive leave policies.
- Canada: we offer medical (prescription drug and paramedical…