Staff Software Development Engineer - Backend

About AiDash 

AiDash is making critical infrastructure industries climate-resilient and sustainable with satellites and AI. Using our full-stack SaaS solutions, customers in electric, gas, and water utilities, transportation, and construction are transforming asset inspection and maintenance – and complying with biodiversity net gain mandates and carbon capture goals. Our customers deliver ROI in their first year of deployment with reduced costs, improved reliability, and achieved sustainability goals. Learn more at www.aidash.com. 

We are a Series C climate techstartup backed by leading investors (including National Grid Partners, G2 Venture Partners, Lightrock, BGV, Marubeni, among others), and by our customers-turned-advocates (Duke Energy & National Grid Partners, among others)! We have been recognized by Forbes two years in a row as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers”. We are also proud to be one of the few climate software companies in Time Magazine’s “America’s Top GreenTech Companies2024”.

Join us in creating a greener, cleaner, and safer planet from space!

How you'll make an impact:

• Design, develop and deploy scalable distributed systems. 
• Build scalable backend systems to support internal workflows backed by automated pipelines and ML models 
• Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics. 
• Implement scalable and resilient distributed systems, ensuring fault tolerance and reliability.
• Working with stakeholders including data, design, product, and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues
• Deploy code to production and engage in code reviews. 
• Refactor service to improve code quality, runtime efficiency and resource optimisation. 
• Build tools that improve engineering productivity
• Become in-house experts and provide consultation to product engineers to help them build scalable and reliable systems.
• Evolve AiDash architecture as we continue to scale.
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize system performance and resource utilization.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in distributed systems technologies and methodologies.

What we're looking for:

• 8+ years of experience designing and building scalable reusable products/components.
• Demonstrated skills and understanding of microservices and systems design.
• Sound with data structures and algorithms.
• Sound understanding of Java and Spring Boot/ Python. Unit test cases, code quality & coverage.
• An extremely good working knowledge of relational database systems (PostgreSQL/MySQL) or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Experience in designing, developing and maintaining Restful APIs . 
• Operational experience with Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques, including load testing, profiling, and the ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks in backend systems.
• Understanding of backend security principles, encryption, authentication, and authorization. They should be knowledgeable about common security vulnerabilities and compliance requirements, ensuring the systems they develop are secure and compliant with relevant regulations. 
• Understanding of distributed system architecture and design, including topics like load balancing, distributed databases, and microservices.

What will make you a great candidate?

• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Experience with geospatial concepts and visualisation concepts and libraries like GeoServer, PostGIS Database, Shapefiles, Projections, Rasters, And GraphQL 
• Experience with ElasticSearch, Redis, Memcached
• Experience with Bamboo, Cucumber, SonarQube

We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices, and we promote a work environment where everyone, from any race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, can do their best work. 

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible interview experience for all candidates. Please let us know if you require any accommodation during the interview process, and we will make every effort to meet your needs.