Jerry. ai

Automotive

TechLead,CoreProductEngine(Backend)

CA$230–280k Toronto, Ontario, Canada FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Tech Lead, Core Product Engine (Backend) at Jerry. ai. Skills: Core Product Engine (Backend), Automation Systems, Fault-tolerant Frameworks, Scalable Architecture, Asynchronous State Management, Real-time System Reliability. Owning the "last mile" of complex, multi-step transactions with external systems to finalize insurance policy purchases. Building custom orchestration layers to navigate internal and external interfaces”

What You'll Achieve.

Evolve current automation systems to a robust, fault-tolerant framework; Handle external interface changes gracefully; Scale across dozens of new categories with minimal manual intervention; Grow from 5M to 50M users

Industry & Context.

Automotive
Problems you'll solve

Solving difficult problems; Solving real-world problems; High-stakes puzzle of asynchronous state management and real-time system reliability; Hunting for edge cases in complex business logic; Understanding why a script failed

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience with TypeScript, Experience with Nest.js, Experience with React, Experience with GraphQL, Experience with AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda), Experience with asynchronous state management, Experience with real-time system reliability, Experience with fault-tolerant framework design, Experience with decoupled, scalable architecture, Experience with offline, asynchronous jobs, Experience with state management for async jobs, Experience with failure retry logic for async jobs, Experience with system design for offline, asynchronous jobs, Experience with refactoring existing automation systems, Experience with designing and implementing new standards, Experience with building the next generation of internal tools, Experience with consumer-facing business, Experience with customer data, Experience with insurance industry logic, Experience with insurance provider behavior, Experience with edge cases in complex business logic, Experience with debugging complex business logic, Experience with transitioning legacy automation systems

Nice to Have

Founded a company, Lead architect at an early stage startup

What You'll Do.

Owning the "last mile" of complex

multi-step transactions with external systems to finalize insurance policy purchases

Building custom orchestration layers to navigate internal and external interfaces

Evolving current automation systems to a robust

fault-tolerant framework

Handling external interface changes gracefully

Scaling automation across dozens of new categories with minimal manual intervention

Learning the technical and business sides of the core product

Leading incremental refactoring of existing automation systems

Designing and implementing new standards

Pairing with engineers to ensure new systems are predictable and testable

Shifting towards using an AI-first approach to build the next generation of internal tools

Transitioning legacy automation systems into a more decoupled

scalable architecture

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Pairing with engineers to ensure new systems are predictable and testable; Working with likeminded peers

Full Job Description

The technical challenge: More than 80% of Americans own a car and see it as a fundamental necessity, yet the experience of owning one is stuck in the 90s. Every part of the user journey (shopping for a car, insurance, repairs, etc) is complicated, fragmented, expensive and time-consuming. At Jerry.ai http://Jerry.ai, we are building the first mobile app to manage it all. Our insurance marketplace is our core product today, and our ability to automate the end-to-end shopping experience is our core differentiator. The Core Backend Team owns the most critical part of that, the "last mile", where we orchestrate complex, multi-step transactions with external systems to finalize insurance policy purchases. Because the industry lacks modern APIs, we build custom orchestration layers that navigate internal and external interfaces with precision. It is a high-stakes puzzle of asynchronous state management and real-time system reliability. Your challenge will be to evolve our current automation systems to a robust, fault-tolerant framework that can handle external interface changes gracefully and scale across dozens of new categories with minimal manual intervention. Why you will (or won’t) like working here: - Ownership: You’ll report directly to our co-founder/CTO, who is actively involved in product implementation. There is no red tape, no slow-moving processes, and no layers of approvals needed. If you have an idea, you can pitch it, build it, and see it live in days. - Stellar team: We have a very high bar for talent, as a result, we have a small but mighty team that can move fast and accomplish a lot. You will work with likeminded peers who are equally passionate and who care intensely about what they do. - Hands-on: Many of our TLMs are ex-founders, they like getting their hands dirty and solving difficult problems. You will spend 80% of your time doing hands-on technical work (e.g. transitioning our legacy automation systems into a more decoupled, scalable architectur

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