WHAT YOU WILL DO HERE:

You will be responsible for the parts of our system that store and process data, including maintenance and growing the capabilities and efficiency of the existing system. You will also communicate system performance and product updates to the team and customers. As part of your role, you will:

• Work with the rest of the engineering team to review existing system architecture and establish goals and direction for scalability, stability, efficiency, and security.

• Design data flows and back-end systems to support data processing and delivery needs at scale, including time-series data, sensor management data, user data, and other types of data as needed.

• Update, extend and optimize existing API as necessary to support existing and planned needs of other systems (sensors, dashboards, maps, etc.).

• Update existing or create new APIs as necessary to support third-party application development.

• Manage and tune infrastructure, making use of managed services wherever appropriate (e.g. Amazon ECS, Lambda, IoT, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc.).

• Participate in strategy sessions to develop the technology roadmap.

WHO YOU ARE:

You have 4+ years of software development experience using multiple program languages and frameworks. Like us, you value creativity, curiosity, and intellectual honesty, and you are committed to solving problems with us together as a team. Your desire to have a huge impact motivates you to join a small, incredibly productive team and do extraordinary things. You have the following skills and competencies:

• Experience developing and deploying low-latency, highly scalable web services

• Proficiency with Python

• Knowledge of Linux administration and shell scripting

• Experience and understanding of container systems such as Docker and modern deployment frameworks

• Familiarity with AWS services

• Strong commitment to good documentation practices.