Lead Backend Engineer

Job Summary

As a lead software engineer at Aerovy, you’ll lead architect and deliver core components of our cloud platform, serving real-time applications across energy, IoT, telematics, and AI.

You’ll work on a modular extensible system that powers everything from EV fleets and battery platforms to electric aircraft and robotics. This is a hands-on, full-stack opportunity where you’ll own features end-to-end, from concept to launch, and work closely with a nimble, high-caliber team.

If you're excited about building high performance production systems, solving hard problems at scale, and shipping real value in a fast-moving environment, we’d love to talk.
Job Requirements:

• Bachelor or Master of Science in Computer Science or related fields with 5 or more years of industry experience

• Passion for finding and solving hard problems

• Passion for learning and growing both technically and non-technically

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, micro-service architectures, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems

• Extensive experience in Cloud/IaaC Infrastructure and Tooling preferably AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, AWS Batch, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/CDK, etc.)

• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to convey complex ideas to diverse stakeholders in a concise and clear manner

• Designed, developed and maintained high-performance services and software infrastructure using AWS or equivalent cloud services

• Lead technical design and architecture discussions across multiple systems and teams

• Championed engineering best practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, testing, and code quality

• We are looking for a candidate with a proven track record shipping production systems to lead the development of a scalable, secure, and high-performance platform

Nice to haves:

• Production experience in Cloud/IaaC Infrastructure and Tooling preferably AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/CDK, etc.)

• Production experience in Docker/containerized applications

• Production experience with near real-time/real-time analytics, time series databases

• Production experience with MQTT

Responsibilities

• You will play a key role in architecting solutions, mentoring engineers, and driving technical excellence across our cloud-native platforms.

• You will be expected to function independently and proactively.

• You will be routinely given requirements and be accountable to drive delivery end-to-end.

• You will be expected to derive clear actionable engineering requirements from customer requirements, market data, and product strategy.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical features and services

• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers

• Own the reliability, scalability, maintainability, and performance of critical production systems

• Contribute to the long-term technical vision and roadmap of our platform aligned with product strategy and business needs