Who we are
Synaptiv
is revolutionising the connected car industry, leveraging the data
streamed off vehicles to build a host of innovative services which
deliver unique insights around real time weather, hyperlocal air
pollution monitoring and road quality assessment. We are pioneering the
use of Big Data to solve real world problems, helping our customers to
dramatically transform their business.
Synaptiv is backed by
InMotion, the venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover. We have built a
sophisticated cloud mobility platform that pulls in large volumes of
real time data from vehicles and leverages advanced data science
techniques to power actionable insights and unique services.
The opportunity
We
are now looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join our
talented team. You will help to scale the platform as we increase the
amount of vehicle data being streamed through Kinesis to our API
backend. Building a solid ingestion infrastructure in AWS from querying
third party API endpoints to storing and surfacing vehicle data to our
customers through our own API servers.
Your role
You’ll
be a confident self-starter and comfortable with a lot of autonomy. You
will be working with our data scientists and CTO to design and build
platforms capable of ingesting and querying volumes of data that could
run into the petabytes.
We’re looking for an exceptional talent
who is motivated by a challenge. If you have a passion for platform
architecture, a solid understanding of server-side languages like Scala,
Java and TypeScript (Python and Ruby are a bonus), are naturally
curious, and have problem solving in your DNA, this could be the role
for you.
Requirements
Who we’re looking for:
- Several years of experience in a range of programming languages, most notably JavaScript / TypeScript
- Other languages are a bonus: Scala, Java, Python, Ruby
- Comfortable with both relational and non-relational database architectures
- Experience in building API servers (REST and others) and TCP/IP, HTTP
- Good understanding of AWS cloud technologies and deployment strategies (Gitlab pipelines, CloudFormation is a bonus)
- Worked with Serverless paradigm and believes it's the future
- Collaborative, willing to constantly learn and an attitude to "leave things better than you found them"
Benefits
- Be part of a mission-driven, venture-backed startup solving real world problems
- Flat hierarchy with autonomy over role and flexible working hours
- 25 days holiday a year
- Great culture and large growth opportunity
If
you think you have what it takes then we want to hear from you. So, if
you’re excited by the opportunity then apply online now!
By applying to this position, you agree to allow InMotion Ventures Ltd (Abbey Road, Coventry, CV3 4LF, inmotion@jaguarlandrover.com)
to collect, store and process your resume, contact details and any
other personal data that you submit. If InMotion is providing
recruitment services to a third-party, you also extend this permission
our end client.
We will process this data for recruitment
purposes only. The data will be stored in our Applicant Tracking
System, (which stores data in the U.S and is fully compliant with EU
data protection laws), and we will not share it with anyone else.
We
would like to keep this data until our open role is filled and may
choose to keep it in our database for future roles for up to 24 months.
Here’s a link to our privacy policy.
In this policy, you will find information about our compliance with
GDPR (data protection law.) You can find how to send us a request to let
you access your data that we have collected, request us to delete your
data, correct any inaccuracies or restrict our processing of your data. You also have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle your data.