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The Company
Metropolis is an artificial intelligence company that uses computer vision technology to enable frictionless, checkout-free experiences in the real world. Today, we are reimagining parking to enable millions of consumers to just "drive in and drive out." We envision a future where people transact in the real world with speed, ease, and convenience - giving us back our most valuable asset, time.
The Role
We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to join our team. As a senior member of the Advanced Technologies team, you will play a critical part in architecting, developing, and maintaining our core backend services that power our ecosystem, designed to scale and deliver highly accurate, real-time data. Your contributions will help create resilient systems that bridge field-deployed hardware and advanced machine learning models, contributing to the core capabilities that drive our platform’s success.
Responsibilities
- System Design & Development: Design and develop backend services in Java/Scala to ensure robustness, accuracy, and scalability across the platform.
- Integration with Hardware & Machine Learning: Collaborate closely with Hardware and Machine Learning teams to ensure seamless integration, accurate data handling, and reliable operations.
- Problem Solving & Innovation: Analyze complex technical problems and leverage your ingenuity to navigate ambiguity, proactively seeking optimal solutions to improve our core services.
- Performance Optimization: Work on optimizing performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying potential bottlenecks and implementing effective solutions.
- Collaboration & Mentorship: Work closely with cross-functional teams, contributing to a collaborative environment, and mentoring junior engineers where possible.
- Code Quality & Testing: Maintain high standards of code quality, conduct thorough testing, and contribute to code reviews to ensure a resilient codebase.
Requirements and Qualifications
- Education: MS or BS in relevant engineering discipline
- Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in platform or core services development in a high-caliber tech environment.
- Proficiency in Java/Scala: Demonstrated experience with Java and Scala, with a deep understanding of backend engineering principles, distributed systems, and data integrity.
- Hardware & Machine Learning Ecosystems: Experience with systems that interact with hardware or machine learning pipelines is highly desirable.
- Problem Solver: Strong analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to solve complex technical issues and thrive in ambiguous situations.
- Team Player: Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a proactive approach to working with cross-functional teams.
When you join Metropolis, you’ll join a team of world-class product leaders and engineers, building an ecosystem of technologies at the intersection of parking, mobility, and real estate. Our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone has a voice and the best idea wins. You will play a key role in building and maintaining this culture as our organization grows. The anticipated base salary for this position is $165,000.00 to 195,000.00 annually. The actual base pay offered is determined by a number of variables, including, as appropriate, the applicant's qualifications for the position, years of relevant experience, distinctive skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location of residence and/or place of employment. Base pay is one component of Metropolis’s total compensation package, which usually includes: healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a lucrative stock option plan, bonus plans, and more.
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Join us in making a difference as we build our future. Metropolis is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equality, and inclusion, and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Metropolis prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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What We Do
Metropolis Technologies, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company whose computer vision platform enables checkout-free payment experiences for the real world. Its proprietary AI-driven technology reaches more than 50 million customers while reducing costs, increasing transparency and capturing additional revenue for real estate partners. Following its take-private acquisition of SP+, Metropolis is now the largest parking network in North America with more than 4,000 locations. To learn more about Metropolis, please visit www.metropolis.io.
Why Work With Us
We’re not your typical technology company. We’re world-class software and hardware engineers, we’re neighborhood urbanists and operators, we’re caring customer support specialists, we’re nerdy data scientists and machine learning engineers, we’re designers and architects… and many things in-between and beyond.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
The best ideas often come from face-to-face interactions! Our flexible work model includes three office days (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, plus one) and two remote days. We'll specify which roles are eligible for remote work based on responsibilities.
