Senior Backend Software Engineer

We’re looking for people to help us build the future of Home Security and Smart Home services.

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Aside from offering a competitive benefits package, we're also committed to fostering an inclusive environment, while providing an opportunity for creating breakthrough technologies that make the world a safer and more intelligent place to live.

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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Ubiety Technologies, Inc is dedicated to developing innovative device detection and RF signaling products that improve the safety and security of homes, businesses, and communities. We offer a fast-paced, highly collaborative startup environment where you will be inventing and developing transformative products to improve the lives of our customers. You will be working alongside extremely talented engineers and creative designers from inception through delivery of a revolutionary product.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about creating elegant, robust, and scalable applications. This opportunity requires leading the technical design of the microservices and streaming applications that power our latest home awareness and security product, Home Aware.

The ideal candidate is motivated by developing software that solves complex problems, is always reading up on the latest technologies as they relate to backend and cloud engineering, and is passionate about building quality, robust systems and achieving operational excellence. An ideal candidate has strong leadership and communication skills with a commitment to raising the engineering bar of the team through mentorship of junior engineers.

If you are committed to teamwork, learning, and hustle you will thrive in this role.

Our backend team owns mission-critical aspects of a rapidly growing product. You will have an incredible amount of impact on the current state and future direction of our cloud infrastructure, with visibility throughout the organization and a significant opportunity to take ownership and lead other team members. Our team moves fast, and is highly autonomous. If you can dream it, you will have an opportunity to build it.

In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience and performance. We believe strongly that if you contribute to adding to Ubiety’s value, you should share in that value.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field with 3+ years of software engineering experience OR 7+ years of software engineering experience

Fluency in Python, Go, C++, Java, or similar programming languages

Strong understanding of streaming architecture and design patterns, pipes and filters, windowing, etc

Strong understanding of REST API and microservice design best practices

Strong understanding of relational database design for Postgres, MySQL, or similar

Knowledge of No

SQL database design and technologies such as Apache Cassandra, Dynamo

DB, Time series, etc

Familiarity with streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, etc

Experience with in-memory cache solutions such as Redis, Valkey, or Memcached

Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS

Strong communication and organizational skills

Primary work location in Chicago, IL

Experience building event‑driven applications using Apache Kafka, Flink etc

Experience designing, building, and maintaining highly scalable and robust APIs in a production environment

Ability to engineer solutions from high-level business requirements with a high level of autonomy

Experience leading and mentoring other Software Engineers (especially Backend Software Engineers)

Experience implementing best practices for backend software development projects in a team environment (code reviews, style guides, unit and E2E test frameworks, etc)

Familiarity with Terraform and infrastructure‑as‑code

Experience with cost‑optimizing backend infrastructure

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