Responsibilities
- Work with engineers & technical leaders across the company to ship products on strong foundations.
- Build high quality end-to-end product experiences for platforms.
- Improve engineering standards, tooling and processes.
- Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps.
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale, and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of backend development experience, with a strong focus on platform and infrastructure roles.
- Deep expertise in backend programming languages (Go, Node, Python).
- Experience in managing state in distributed systems and understanding of microservices architecture.
- Proficient in backend testing frameworks and knowledge of system testing best practices.
- Experience working across engineering teams and other functions in building alignment, driving decision making, and communicating transparently.
- Experience mentoring and helping in the development of engineers and peers.
Bonus points
- Track record of leading backend platform development in a high-growth tech environment.
- A portfolio or GitHub repository showcasing backend architectural expertise and contributions to middleware, APIs, or server-side applications.
- Fluent in English.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of backend development experience, with a strong focus on platform and infrastructure roles
- Deep expertise in backend programming languages (Go, Node, Python)
- Experience in managing state in distributed systems and understanding of microservices architecture
- Proficient in backend testing frameworks and knowledge of system testing best practices
- Experience working across engineering teams and other functions in building alignment, driving decision making, and communicating transparently
- Experience mentoring and helping in the development of engineers and peers
What We Do
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that offers industrial monitoring systems. Tractian builds streamlined hardware-software solutions to give maintenance technicians and industrial decision-makers comprehensive oversight of their operations. It is democratizing access to sophisticated real-time monitoring and asset operations tools. Tractian's solutions are used in environments that address a combined total of 5% of global industrial output. The company’s broad market reach is evidenced in its customer base from various industries, such as John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Goodyear, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Bimbo, the owner of the brands Little Bites and Thomas Bagels. Tractian's customers see a 6-12x ROI with savings of $6,000 per monitored machine annually on average. In a major milestone and a first for the industry, Tractian launched the AI-Assisted Maintenance category in the industrial sector. In this new paradigm, artificial intelligence identifies machine problems and suggests preventive actions to be taken, giving invaluable insight and support to maintenance professionals. It is important to highlight that the intent of Assisted Maintenance is firmly rooted in augmenting maintenance professionals to provide more assertive diagnosis with human-in-the-loop feedback. Tractian's mission is to elevate this category of workers in a highly impactful way. The Assisted Maintenance category will provide unimaginable support for maintenance professionals. By combining shop floor expertise with our technology, maintainers will be able to anticipate and address issues with unprecedented accuracy and speed
