Staff Engineer - Backend

Job description

Netradyne harnesses the power of Computer Vision and Edge Computing to revolutionize the modern-day transportation ecosystem. We are a leader in fleet safety solutions. With growth exceeding 4x year over year, our solution is quickly being recognized as a significant disruptive technology. Our team is growing, and we need forward-thinking, uncompromising, competitive team members to continue to facilitate our growth. Role Summary As a Staff Engineer , you provide strong technical leadership and hands‑on ownership of core backend services and pipelines. You will anchor and influence cross‑team architecture and execution. You are expected to: • Own key service architectures • Design scalable ingestion and compliance workflows • Ensure data quality, correctness, and reliability • Mentor engineers and drive high engineering standards Role and Responsibilities • Enhance Netradyne Driveri solution offerings by understanding and integrating third-party partner solutions. • Design, build, and maintain high-performance, reusable, reliable, and scalable software components. • Develop integrations and plug-ins on third-party partner platforms to provide tightly integrated solutions between Netradyne and its partners. • Design and build highly available and scalable backend services and customer-facing APIs using core AWS technologies. • Own technical design and architecture for complex API and integration initiatives. • Design APIs with appropriate versioning, backward compatibility, security, rate limiting, and lifecycle management. • Design and implement event-driven and asynchronous integrations using messaging and streaming technologies. • Address scalability, reliability, performance, retry, idempotency, and failure-handling requirements in distributed systems. • Provide technical solutions for complex web, API, and integration development activities. • Optimize applications and services for maximum performance, reliability, and scalability. • Document architecture, design, APIs, and implementation decisions. • Work independently and drive complex technical initiatives from design through delivery. • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers across the team. • Collaborate effectively with Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, and external partner teams. • Communicate technical challenges, trade-offs, and solutions clearly in both written and verbal form. Essential Skills • 5–7 years of strong hands-on experience designing and building API-centric Java/Spring Boot applications and integration platforms. • Strong experience with REST API design, Webhooks, Web Services, and third-party integrations. • Experience designing scalable, highly available, and high-performance APIs and backend services. • Strong understanding of API lifecycle management, versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and API security. • Experience with event-driven and asynchronous architectures and messaging technologies such as Ka