Founding Engineer - Backend
Founding Engineer - Backend
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Job Description
We are building the next generation of insurance products financial services and fleet software for trucking use our Universal API to access GPS data speeding data and vehicle stats.
We are a fast growing venturebacked startup supported by top investors including Y Combinator Golden Ventures and Wayfinder Ventures. Our exceptionally talented team is based in Toronto Canada.
Note: This role is only available to Toronto/GTAbased candidates
About the role
Were looking for a backend engineer to join us as an early team member. Youll play a key role in enhancing our integration framework which supports over 100 integrations and in building new APIs and platform capabilities that help customers fully leverage their data.
In this role youll be a key contributor to our core integration platform building the capabilities abstractions and connectors that make it easier for customers to ingest and develop with telematics data. While primarily focused on TypeScript and Node.js development youll have opportunities to work with various languages and technologies as you create elegant solutions to complex integration challenges. Youll design and implement reusable components and modules that help us deliver a more reliable and scalable platform to our growing customer base.
What you will do
- Enhance our core integration framework that supports 100 integrations.
- Scope build and implement new integrations to broaden the platforms reach.
- Design and deliver new features on our data platform that add value for customers.
- Build reliable intuitive APIs that simplify customer implementations.
- Create tooling and patterns that improve testing observability and platform reliability.
- Monitor and optimize integration performance ensuring scalability as data volumes grow.
- Contribute to code reviews and share best practices to uphold high standards across the team.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex integration issues providing technical support as needed.
The ideal candidate will have
- 4 years of backend development experience.
- 2 years of experience designing and building on AWS.
- Experience with or interest to learn Node.js and TypeScript
- Comfort working with and building integrations for systems with limited or unclear documentation.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills especially in distributed systems.
Nice to haves
- Experience with serverless and eventdriven architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda SQS).
- Advanced knowledge of Node.js internals and TypeScript including comfort with generics.
- Experience building batch or streaming data pipelines at TB scale.
Tech stack
- Backend:
- Node.js (TypeScript)
- AWS serverless architecture including:
- Lambda DynamoDB S3 SQS EventBridge and Step Functions
- Data streaming and lakehouse architecture including:
- Kafka Flink Spark Java Python Iceberg and S3
- Frontend:
- Next.js (TypeScript) deployed withSST
- Styling with Tailwind and shadcn
- Infrastructure as Code:
- SSTand AWS CDK
- CI/CD:
- GitHub Actions
Employment Type
Full Time
