Software Engineer, Backend

About Us

At Hayden AI, we are on a mission to harness the power of computer vision to transform the way transit systems and other government agencies address real-world challenges.

From bus lane and bus stop enforcement to transportation optimization technologies and beyond, our innovative mobile perception system empowers our clients to accelerate transit, enhance street safety, and drive toward a sustainable future.

What the job involves

The Cloud Engineering team is crucial to the overall success of Hayden products. We own the Portal used directly by customers, internal tools that support company scaling, observability platform for thousands of devices deployed into the field, and numerous backend services that support our customer vehicle fleets. Scalability, reliability, and extensibility is the name of the game here.

Responsibilities

• Define, build, and operate the next generation of the backbone for our services architecture that is in use by all cloud services and all software engineers.

• Build and operate our CI/CD system for physical devices and cloud services.

• Use infrastructure as code to operate multi-region AWS deployment at scale.

• Practice and enforce best DevOPS, SRE, and Security practices across the whole engineering team.

• Work cross-functionally to gather requirements, build consensus on approaches, and develop appropriate technical solutions.

• Model best practices in the team, and raise the bar on incident prevention, response, and remediation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Vision, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

• 3-5+ years of industry experience. Deep knowledge of Amazon’s AWS ecosystem at scale, including but not limited to EKS, S3, SQS, RDS, Cognito, Lambda, etc.

• Proficiency in Python and Go (Golang).

• Experience working with relational, time series, and document databases, including knowledge of SQL.

• Proven problem-solving skills; ability to take ownership of issues and driving towards resolution effectively.

• Knowledge of best practices in designing, using, and testing web services and APIs.

• Being comfortable in an agile, fast-paced environment; ability to organize chaos and leave things cleaner than you found them.