Joby Aviation
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
$141K–$218K
San Carlos, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2024
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Designs and operates backend infrastructure, services, and integrations that support Joby’s manufacturing and operational systems.
What you'll do
- Build backend services, APIs, event-driven integrations, and data pipelines for manufacturing and operations.
- Own systems through requirements, design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Lead technical discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across hardware, operations, manufacturing, and quality teams.
What they ask for
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Advanced hands-on Python experience; strong Docker and containerized development knowledge.
- Strong REST API and system architecture knowledge; deep event-driven architecture experience; production debugging, testing, and observability practices.
Nice to have
- GitHub-based CI/CD, PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB, GraphQL, cloud storage, or distributed file systems experience.
- Manufacturing or hardware-integrated systems experience; AI-assisted development workflows and LLM-based tooling.
Pay
USD 141,000 - USD 217,700/yr base salary
Tools
Python, Docker, RESTful APIs, Kafka, GitHub, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, GraphQL
AI focus
Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and LLM-based tooling is desired.
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