About this Staff Engineer - Backend role at Netradyne
Netradyne harnesses the power of Computer Vision and Edge Computing to revolutionize the modern-day transportation ecosystem. We are a leader in fleet safety solutions. With growth exceeding 4x year over year, our solution is quickly being recognized as a significant disruptive technology. Our team is growing, and we need forward-thinking, uncompromising, competitive team members to continue to facilitate our growth.
Role Summary
As a Staff Engineer , you provide strong technical leadership and hands‑on ownership of core backend services and pipelines. You will anchor and influence cross‑team architecture and execution.
You are expected to:
- Own key service architectures
- Design scalable ingestion and compliance workflows
- Ensure data quality, correctness, and reliability
- Mentor engineers and drive high engineering standards
Role and Responsibilities
- Enhance Netradyne Driveri solution offerings by understanding and integrating third-party partner solutions.
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance, reusable, reliable, and scalable software components.
- Develop integrations and plug-ins on third-party partner platforms to provide tightly integrated solutions between Netradyne and its partners.
- Design and build highly available and scalable backend services and customer-facing APIs using core AWS technologies.
- Own technical design and architecture for complex API and integration initiatives.
- Design APIs with appropriate versioning, backward compatibility, security, rate limiting, and lifecycle management.
- Design and implement event-driven and asynchronous integrations using messaging and streaming technologies.
- Address scalability, reliability, performance, retry, idempotency, and failure-handling requirements in distributed systems.
- Provide technical solutions for complex web, API, and integration development activities.
- Optimize applications and services for maximum performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Document architecture, design, APIs, and implementation decisions.
- Work independently and drive complex technical initiatives from design through delivery.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers across the team.
- Collaborate effectively with Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, and external partner teams.
- Communicate technical challenges, trade-offs, and solutions clearly in both written and verbal form.
Essential Skills
- 5–7 years of strong hands-on experience designing and building API-centric Java/Spring Boot applications and integration platforms.
- Strong experience with REST API design, Webhooks, Web Services, and third-party integrations.
- Experience designing scalable, highly available, and high-performance APIs and backend services.
- Strong understanding of API lifecycle management, versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and API security.
- Experience with event-driven and asynchronous architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, including retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, and failure handling.
- Hands-on experience with Spring/Spring Boot and related Java frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering best practices.
- Strong experience with RDBMS/SQL and writing optimized queries for large datasets.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with unit testing frameworks and automated testing practices.
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud technologies and cloud-native application design.
- Ability to independently drive technical design and architecture for complex integration and API initiatives.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, and partner teams.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Knowledge of Shell scripting.
- Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git.
- Knowledge of build automation tools such as Maven and Gradle.
- Knowledge of Big Data ecosystems.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools such as Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. Netradyne is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any legally protected status.
If there is a match between your experiences/skills and the Company's needs, we will contact you directly.
Netradyne is an equal-opportunity employer.
Applicants only - Recruiting agencies do not contact.
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