Jerry. ai

Car ownership management

TechLead,CoreProductEngine(Backend)

CA$230–280k Toronto, Ontario, Canada FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Tech Lead, Core Product Engine (Backend) at Jerry. ai. Skills: Core Backend development, Orchestrating complex, multi-step transactions, Building custom orchestration layers, Asynchronous state management, Real-time system reliability, Evolving automation systems to a robust, fault-tolerant framework, Handling external interface changes gracefully, Scaling automation across new categories, Refactoring existing automation systems, Designing and implementing new standards for predictability and te”

What You'll Achieve.

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

Industry & Context.

Car ownership management
Problems you'll solve

Solving difficult problems; 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 work, Experience with failure retry logic for async work, Experience with complex business logic, Experience with debugging failures in complex business logic

Nice to Have

Founded a company, Lead architect at an early stage startup, Experience with AI-first approach for building internal tools

What You'll Do.

Owning the most critical part of the "last mile" automation systems

Orchestrating complex

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

Building custom orchestration layers that navigate internal and external interfaces with precision

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 the new system is predictable and testable

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

Doing hands-on technical work (e.g. transitioning legacy automation systems into a more decoupled

scalable architecture)

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Pairing with engineers to ensure the new system is predictable and testable; Working with likeminded peers who are equally passionate

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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