Senior Backend Engineer

Rekor Systems, Inc., (Rekor.ai) (NASDAQ: REKR) is a trusted global authority on Roadside Intelligence providing innovative solutions with the mission to drive the world to be safer, smarter, and more efficient. Rekor products combine IoT technology, connected vehicle telemetry data, computer vision data and machine learning to enable the future of Public Safety, Urban Mobility and Traffic Management. With our disruptive technology and integrated solutions, we deliver a transformative, global impact for customers and citizens every day.

Senior Backend Engineer  

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Rekor, you will be designing, implementing, and supporting complex features in the reflection of performance, clean code, and high-quality deliveries. 

You will be taking a significant part in a squad and working with Product and different R&D team members to deliver new features and capabilities that serve our business goals and come up with ways to improve our solutions on a high scale. You will help our clients make the best data-driven decisions to improve road safety. 

You will work with a variety of languages and technologies such as Kotlin, Python, Kafka, Kinesis, Kubernetes and more. We encourage our team to take things end to end; from preliminary step of designing a solution, implement and deliver to production while build and monitor dashboards and metrics. 

We’re looking for someone who enjoys teamwork but knows how to work independently as well. 

Responsibilities:  

• Take a proactive role in the business-driven Squad and own your domain 
• Design, implement, test, deploy and monitor Backend infrastructure and business features 
• Maintain high-quality standards and write readable, testable, modular, and maintainable code 
• Build tools and processes to improve and accelerate our development life cycle, to take our road safety offering to the next level 
• Collaborate while sharing your knowledge with other team members throughout the R&D 

• 5+ years of proven backend development experience in JVM environment / (Kotlin – Advantage) 
• Experience working with distributed, microservice based architectures 
• Deep knowledge and experience working with both RDBMS and NoSQL databases 
• Experience working with high data and traffic scales and tools, like: Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, Kinesis 
• Solid understanding of cloud services, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes – Advantage 
• Managerial experience leading a team or squad of at least 3 people - Advantage