[Hiring] Tech Lead, Core Product Engine (Backend) @Jerry.ai

Role Description

The technical challenge:

• More than 80% of Americans own a car and see it as a fundamental necessity.
• The experience of owning a car is complicated, fragmented, expensive, and time-consuming.
• At Jerry.ai, we are building the first mobile app to manage the entire car ownership experience.
• Our insurance marketplace is our core product today, automating the end-to-end shopping experience.
• The Core Backend Team orchestrates complex, multi-step transactions with external systems to finalize insurance policy purchases.
• We build custom orchestration layers to navigate internal and external interfaces with precision.
• Your challenge will be to evolve our current automation systems into a robust, fault-tolerant framework.

Why you will (or won’t) like working here:

• Ownership: Report directly to our co-founder/CTO with no red tape or slow-moving processes.
• Stellar team: Work with a small but talented team that can move fast and accomplish a lot.
• Hands-on: Spend 80% of your time doing hands-on technical work.
• Volume of customer data: Access to a massive amount of customer data across various behaviors.

What you’ll own:

• Lead incremental refactoring of existing automation systems.
• Design and implement new standards while pairing with engineers.
• Shift towards using an AI-first approach for building the next generation of internal tools.

Qualifications

• Experience as a founder or lead architect at an early-stage startup.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach.
• Ability to understand complex business logic and hunt for edge cases.
• High bar for system design, especially for offline, asynchronous jobs.

Requirements

• Proficiency in TypeScript (Nest.js, React), GraphQL, AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda).

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off and paid parental leave.
• 401(K) plan with employer matching.
• Wellness benefits.
• Equity opportunities may also be part of your total rewards package.

Company Description

Jerry.ai is America’s first and only super app to radically simplify car ownership. We are redefining how people manage owning a car, one of their most expensive and time-consuming assets.

• Backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• Simplifies and automates owning and maintaining a car.
• Provides personalized services for all car owners' needs.
• Over 5 million customers and a 4.7-star rating in the App Store.
• Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs with over $240 million raised in financing.