Senior Software Engineer, Backend
New Yesterday
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
Responsibilities:
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
Qualifications:
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
- Location:
- Cambridge
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior, Engineering, Software