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Jerry is a personal car assistant that simplifies car ownership by offering a platform for managing car insurance, repair estimates, and driving improvements. Through its services like PriceProtect, GarageGuard, and DriveShield, Jerry helps users compare car insurance quotes from over 55 insurers, receive maintenance reminders, and track their driving habits to earn rewards. 

Trusted by over 5 million drivers, Jerry aims to make the car ownership experience easier and more affordable while ensuring user data remains secure. 

automotive • cars • insurance • mobile application • fintech


201 - 500 employees


Founded 2017

☁️ SaaS

Senior Backend Engineer
11 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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AWS

Java

JavaScript

Kafka

Python

Go

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📋 Description
• 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 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 on non-functional requirements of backend applications, including service availability, scalability, reliability (fault tolerance), observability and security.
• Oversee system design and architecture to ensure robust and scalable solutions
• Develop and optimize real-time data 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 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
• Startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have)
• Bonus if you have previous knowledge of working with geospatial data