Senior Backend Engineer

The role

A Senior Backend Engineer will join the Ticketing & Payments team to build observable and scalable systems. You will scope, design, build, and maintain secure APIs and improve tenancy and isolation boundaries.

What you will do

• Scope, design, build and maintain APIs that are secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready
• Improve tenancy and isolation boundaries across violations, citations and payments systems
• Partner closely with product management to turn business needs into technical solutions
• Make real engineering trade-offs
• Operate what you build and respond to incidents
• Mentor and coach engineers to reason through trade-offs and write decisions down
• Set and hold a high technical bar
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating large scale production systems
• 5+ years of programming with software programming languages like Go, Ruby, Java, Python, Kotlin, or similar
• 5+ Experience designing and building scalable backend APIs or platform services
• 3+ years of real operational experience
• Strong understanding of API design best practices - security, data format and interchange, version control and CI/CD
• A track record of working directly with product management shaping solutions
• Interest in working as a generalist across tech stacks
• A pragmatic mindset
• Take ownership of your work and collaborate well with teammates
• Understand what mentoring looks like and extend that to early in career engineers

Nice to have

• Knowledge building distributed systems
• Experience working in platform teams that build and maintain foundational services for product engineers by teams

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• early-stage equity

About the company

Obvio deploys solar-powered, AI-assisted cameras to enforce traffic laws. The company is building the intelligence layer for safer streets globally.