About the position
We are hiring an experienced Lead Backend Software Engineer to join our team at Butlr. In this role, you will have a direct impact on customer and operational metrics by driving the scalability and resilience of our backend system. You will be responsible for managing and processing near-realtime data generated by our sensor suite, as well as designing and implementing architecture for our cloud services. Additionally, you will play a key role in overhauling our backend microservice messaging layer and contributing to our hardware installation process. This is a remote position with a world-class team and supportive investors.
Responsibilities
- Handle architecture design and implementation for scaling challenges and new features.
- Scale the data pipeline system, focusing on the architecture of cloud services.
- Design, generalize, and scale the data enrichment pipeline, enabling new enrichment algorithms to be created and launched in A/B testing scenarios.
- Overhaul the backend microservice messaging layer and directly impact the hardware installation process.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in architectural design and implementation for large data systems
- Proficiency in at least one object-oriented language, preferably C++, Java, and/or GO
- Expertise in at least one scripting/functional language, preferably Python, Bash, and/or C
- 1-2 years of experience with CI/CD, A/B Testing
- Experience in container-based architectures, including Kubernetes, ECS, Docker
- Experience in microservice messaging, including Kafka, MQTT, Kinesis, SNS
- Experience mentoring junior developers into great team players
- Strong project leadership and task management expertise
Benefits
- World class team with low egos
- Founders won Forbes 30 Under 30 distinction in 2021
- World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2022
- Supportive investors such as Founder Collective, Hyperplane, E14 Fund and 500 Startups, including amazing angel investors such as the founders of Whoop, Simplisafe, and the Chief Product Officer at Adobe
- A flexible work environment
- Generous paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance