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Senior Backend Engineer (Toronto)

Jerryabout 1 month ago
Brampton, Ontario
Senior Level
full_time

About the role

🚗 Why us? 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 was a milestone year for Jerry.ai. 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, Robinhood, Amazon, Meta, ByteDance, Square, and more, and build one of the most exciting startups in the industry.

And we're just getting started! Our 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.ai 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.ai’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
  • Proficient in at least one core language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, JavaScript)
  • Expertise in Kafka, Flink and AWS
  • Experience building stream processing applications
  • 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

Our tech stack

  • Java and sometimes Python
  • Stream processing: Kafka and Flink
  • Hosting infra: AWS

While we appreciate your interest and application, only applicants under consideration will be contacted. 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 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. We have more than 5 million customers — and we’re just getting started.

Jerry.ai 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.

About Jerry

Software Development
201-500

Jerry is America’s first and only AllCar™ app. We’re redefining and radically improving all things car ownership.

When Jerry launched its car insurance compare-and-buy service in 2019, we forever changed the experience of shopping for car insurance. Today, we’re reimagining every step of car ownership to make it better, faster, and more affordable.

We’re committed to constantly innovating and improving our AI-powered AllCar™ app. From insurance and financing to maintenance and safety, we’ve got your back. Because we car.

Our AllCar™ app makes handling everything car easier with:

  • PriceProtect™: Find shockingly good insurance rates from 50+ insurance companies
  • GarageGuard™: Keep track of your vehicle to diagnose issues, send scheduled maintenance reminders, estimate repair and maintenance prices, and recommend trusted service providers
  • DriveShield™: Become a safer driver by tracking your driving score and get rewarded with compelling safe-driving rewards

Jerry makes owning a car easier by putting car owners first. By perfectly combining AI with human agents, our AllCar™ app provides more customers quality service, faster. Jerry customers can do everything in the app, without making a single phone call (unless they want to!). With 5 million customers nationwide, Jerry is the #1 rated and most downloaded app in its category.

Led by serial entrepreneurs, tech alumni, and fintech, insurtech and auto experts, Jerry attracts people who are passionate about improving car ownership and saving Americans money, all while providing a seamless customer experience. We’re relentless, we’re moving fast, and it’s working. Jerry HQ is in Silicon Valley, with offices in Toronto and Buffalo, and remote team members in four countries. Ride with us.

Awards: -Forbes/Statistica America’s Best Startup Employers, 2023 -YCombinator Top Companies List, 2023 -Art Agrawal named a Top 25 InsurTech CEO, 2022