Back-end Engineer

About Us

Viaduct leverages decades of industry experience, world-class machine learning, and a platform designed specifically for automotive data to deliver a comprehensive suite of AI-powered applications for vehicles on the road today. Our goal is to help Manufacturers and Suppliers to become leaders in the new automotive world.

Who You Are

You are a thoughtful engineer. You pay attention to the long term implications of your design decisions and how they may affect future users of the application. Clarity is better than cleverness - simplicity is top of mind when writing code or designing new services. You know when to make the trade-off between getting work done and doing it perfectly.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for back-end engineers with well-rounded skills and experience, specifically in building and maintaining robust systems. The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

Expected Skills

• Experience owning a project from design to implementation
• 3+ years working as back-end engineer
• Proficient in Python and Go
• Strong SQL skills with comfort in data querying and exploration

Security and Privacy Responsibilities

• Follow our policy and procedure documents related to security and privacy
• Follow the guidelines in the Employee Handbook
• Follow the OWASP Top 10 guidelines when implementing and reviewing code
• Participate in new hire and annual training for security and privacy
• Treat data security and privacy as one of your primary job responsibilities
• Report Security Incidents you discover as bugs
• Get approval from the Security Team before adding new 3rd party software to our codebase
• Explicitly consider security implications when doing PR reviews

Expertise in one or more of:

• Building and managing large-scale batch or real-time data pipelines (Data)
• Developing, monitoring, and iterating on production machine learning models (Machine Learning)
• Deploying and maintaining cloud infrastructure (Infra/DevOps)
• Designing and implementing backend services (Backend)

About the Role

Day 5

• Learn about Viaduct’s history and mission
• Get to know every team member
• Understand Viaduct’s system architecture
• Deep dive into the nuances of vehicle data
• Attend our weekly company-wide meeting and engineering tech talk

Day 30

• Understand the product roadmap and customer pain points
• Contribute new back-end features to the product
• Participate in an engineering hack day by refactoring code, improving test coverage, or automating a manual process
• Integrate into the daily workflow of the engineering team

Day 90

• Own a piece of the Viaduct platform 
• Improve the onboarding process for future hires
• Present about yourself the company-wide meeting and showcase your work at the engineering tech talk
• Become involved in the recruiting process and help find more amazing people like yourself!